Application with flexible control loops for programming a building controller

A non-transient, computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device, cause the one or more processors of the mobile device to:

• accept a selection via a user interface of the mobile device a building equipment type selected from an HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning) equipment type and a lighting equipment type;
• accept a selection via the user interface of the mobile device a first building equipment of the selected building equipment type to be controlled by a building controller from a plurality of predefined building equipment options for the selected building equipment type;
• accept input via the user interface of the mobile device that defines a first control loop for controlling the first building equipment by selecting from a plurality of predefined first control loop parameter options, wherein one or more of the plurality of predefined first control loop parameter options includes an option to define a control parameter of the first control loop, wherein the control parameter includes one or more of:
• a throttle range, an integral time, a derivative time, an occupancy sensor offset delay and one or more set points;
• accept a selection via the user interface of the mobile device a second building equipment of the selected building equipment type to be controlled by the building controller from the plurality of predefined building equipment options for the selected building equipment type;
• accept input via the user interface of the mobile device that defines a second control loop for controlling the second building equipment by selecting from a plurality of predefined second control loop parameter options;
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• output the defined first control loop and the defined second control loop for execution on the building controller, such that the building controller controls the first building equipment in accordance with the first control loop and the second building equipment in accordance with the second control loop.

A method of configuring a controller application that will execute on a building controller in order to control a building equipment, the controller application when executing causing the building controller to receive one or more inputs from some of a plurality of terminals of the building controller and to create and output one or more outputs via one or more of the other of the plurality of terminals of the building controller, the controller application customizable to execute on any of a variety of different building controllers and/or to control any of a variety of different building equipment, the method comprising:

• allowing a user to specify a piece of building equipment using a mobile device application;
• determining whether the specified piece of building equipment will require a control loop or a monitoring loop;
• when it is determined that the specified piece of building equipment will require a control loop:
• the mobile device application soliciting from the user input as to whether an output type is analog or digital;
• based on selection, the mobile device application solicits from the user input for each of the corresponding control loop's output, input and loop parameter configuration, wherein the loop parameter configuration includes one or more of:
• a throttle range, an integral time, a derivative time, an occupancy sensor offset delay and one or more set points;
• when it is determined that the specified piece of building equipment will require a monitoring loop:
• the mobile device application soliciting from the user input as to an input configuration for the monitoring loop;
• regardless of whether the specified piece of building equipment will require a control loop or a monitoring loop:
• the mobile device application automatically generated IO terminal assignments for the building controller;
• converting the configuration into a controller-understandable format and downloading the controller-understandable format for execution on the building controller;
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• soliciting information from the user regarding alarms for one or more of the control loop and monitoring loop.