Trane International Inc.

Rick Kloeppner

Susan M Mairs

James Brink

Sean Fuller Mosley

Rachel Michael Nilsson

Scott Cress

Amit Samtani

Harikrishnan M G

Zachary Frank Stark

Sriram Sreenivasan

Sagar Sampat Salunkhe

Brian J Politiske

Charles P Quistad

An HVAC controller operable in an occupied mode and an unoccupied mode and includes a touch-responsive display. The controller displays an informational region having non-interactive user interface elements, a control region having interactive user-interface elements and an override region having an occupied status display and an occupancy override control having an override state and a non-override state. The visual properties of the variable opacity region is manipulated to guide the user during use of the HVAC controller.

HVAC graphical user interface with visual obscurity and methods of use thereof

An HVAC controller includes a touch-responsive display and a scheduling grid having one or more rows representing a 24 hour period of a day-of-week. A user selects an operation to be performed such as adding or deleting a scheduled event, such as a period of occupancy or non-occupancy. A visual representation of the available operations and the temporal regions subject to the available operations is presented. A user may then select the desired region on which to perform the operation, the operation is visually represented on the touch-responsive display, and the user indicates whether the operation should be saved or discarded. The operation may be applied to additional remote HVAC devices in a single operation.

Flexible scheduling HVAC graphical user interface and methods of use thereof

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