Patent ID: 9732974
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: F24F

Claim:
1. A thermostat for controlling a first device and a second device in a HVAC system, comprising: a thermostat controller; a plurality of demand circuits, including a first and a second demand circuit; a programmable demand circuit mapper connected to the thermostat controller and to the plurality of demand circuits; and a configuration memory that stores a mapping of demand circuit assignments used by the programmable demand circuit mapper that associates a corresponding device external to the thermostat to particular demand circuits; wherein the programmable demand circuit mapper receives a control signal from the thermostat controller and routes that control signal to control the corresponding device via one of the plurality of demand circuits as a function of the mapping stored in the configuration memory; wherein the thermostat controller is configured to receive demand circuit assignments across a network from a database external to the thermostat.