| CPC H04L 12/2807 (2013.01) [H04L 49/35 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
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1. A building controller configured to control one or more building system components of a building control system, the building controller comprising:
a mountable housing configured to be mounted to a mounting surface;
one or more wiring terminals accessible from outside of the housing such that a user can secure one or more wires from one or more of the building system components to respective ones of the one or more wiring terminals;
a controller housed by the housing and operatively coupled to the one or more wiring terminals, the controller configured to output one or more control signals on one or more of the wiring terminals, wherein at least one of the one or more control commands is configured to control one or more building control components;
a managed multi-port network switch housed by the housing, the managed multi-port network switch including a plurality of network switch ports that are each accessible from outside of the housing, are each separate from the one or more wiring terminals of the building controller, and are each configured to be releasably secured to one or more network cables, wherein each of the plurality of network switch ports of the managed multi-port network switch can communicate at a rate of at least 10 megabits per second (MB/s) over a corresponding network cable and can provide network communication between two remote devices when each of the remote devices is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of network switch ports; and
the building controller is configured to receive user input for configuring each of one or more of a plurality of managed network port settings for each of the plurality of network switch ports of the managed multi-port network switch, and in response, configure each of the one or more of the plurality of managed network port settings for each of the plurality of network switch ports of the managed multi-port network switch based on the received user input.
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