Facilitating Scheduling of Comfort Controllers

An apparatus for providing climate control in a structure, the apparatus comprising:

• a wireless-capable comfort controller operable to control at least a first configuration of a climate control system;
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• a computing device capable of wireless communication with the comfort controller and having a user interface for receiving user specifications in relation to operation of the comfort controller to control the first configuration;
• wherein the computing device is operable to store the received user specifications in relation to first and second weekly schedules for operation of at least the first configuration, each schedule including a plurality of daily time slots and temperature set points and selectively retrievable and wirelessly transmissible to the comfort controller to completely replace a weekly schedule currently in use by the comfort controller to control at least the first configuration, whereby the comfort controller is selectively configurable to control at least the first configuration of the climate control system using either the first weekly schedule or the second weekly schedule.

A computer-performed method of providing climate control in a structure, the method comprising:

• receiving, via a user interface of a computing device, user specifications for control by a comfort controller of a climate control system of the structure, the user specifications including a plurality of daily time slots and temperature set points;
• storing first and second sets of user specifications in relation to first and second weekly schedules for operation by the comfort controller of at least a first configuration of the climate control system, each of the first and second weekly schedules associated with a name, and the first and second weekly schedules including the plurality of daily time slots and temperature set points received via the user interface;
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• in response to a user selection of one of the stored first and second weekly schedules, retrieving the selected weekly schedule based on the name associated with the selected schedule and transmitting the selected weekly schedule to the comfort controller to completely replace a weekly schedule currently in use by the comfort controller to control at least the first configuration, whereby the comfort controller uses the selected weekly schedule in place of a weekly schedule currently in use by the comfort controller to control at least the first configuration.