Patent ID: 8442693

Claim:
An HVAC graphical interface dashboard, comprising: a weather tab, wherein invoking the weather tab advances to a weather screen; an indoor humidity tab, wherein invoking the indoor humidity tab advances to a humidity screen which displays at least a current indoor humidity; an alerts tab, wherein invoking the alerts tab advances to an alerts screen; a help tab, wherein invoking the help tab advances to a help screen that provides context sensitive help that presents at least one dialog box related to a function of a current screen; an indoor settings tab, wherein invoking the indoor settings tab advances to an indoor settings screen which includes a current indoor temperature; a programs tab, wherein invoking the programs tab advances to a programs screen which can program at least one of: a) a time; b) temperature setpoints; c) heating/cooling setpoints; wherein a program schedule of the program tab is divided into a plurality of time zones wherein, upon a time a time zone being invoked for a set period of time: a) a temperature setpoint for that time period is deactivated, b) a display of the deactivated setpoints of the deactivated time period appears dim relative to a display of the time period's setpoints before deactivation; and c) the deactivated time period's setpoints appear dimmer relative to an active time period's setpoints; and a home tab, wherein invoking the home tab advances to a home screen which provides a summary of indoor conditions wherein at least one attribute of a presentation of the home screen is selectable by a user, wherein at least one attribute of a presentation of the home screen is selectable by a user.