Abstract: A system and method for generating a schedule for a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system based on user-defined comfort level inputs. The HVAC system includes an HVAC controller that includes an HVAC system interface usable to control one or more of the one or more HVAC components of the HVAC system and a user interface. The user interface is configured to display a comfort indication element in a comfort challenge that indicates a present comfort profile temperature set point. The comfort indication element is usable by a user of the local computing device to adjust the present comfort profile temperature set point. The HVAC controller is further configured to update a comfort profile schedule as a function of the updated present comfort profile temperature set point. Additional embodiments are described herein.