Honeybee: Support for Energy Plus 8.3

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Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on August 4, 2015 at 7:30am

Hi Alireza. Did you also updated Honeybee_Honeybee inside your file?

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 5, 2015 at 4:20pm

Alireza,

To be clear, the latest version is the version on the github: what you get when you click on "download zip" on this page (https://github.com/mostaphaRoudsari/Honeybee).

The latest version IS NOT the version on the app.box, food4Rhino or the link off of the grasshopper group page.  That is just the last stable release.

You can use the "Update Ladybug" and "Update Honeybee" components to automatically sync your userobjects with the github (so you do not have to hit 'download zip').

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 8, 2015 at 3:12am

HI, Alireza, can you installed EP 8.1 which can co-exist with EP 8.3?

I think by default LB & HB are still looking for EP8.1 currently for some of its components.

Pls correct me if I'm wrong ...

Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on August 8, 2015 at 11:09pm

They can co-exist ... but you are wrong. The last version from the github calls for 8.3.

-A.

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 8, 2015 at 11:47pm

Thanks, Abraham!

Can the LB+HB developer team consider an option for the Run Energy Simulation component to choose EnergyPlus version so that people who don't have the latest EP due to computer admin control on installation can still enjoy using LB+HB?

Judging from the .bat file for EP to run, this option can enable the users to specify which version of Epl-run.bat to use if they don't have the latest EP.

Of course this is not applicable for some of the latest LB+HB components which may need to utilize the functions of the latest EP.

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on August 10, 2015 at 8:25am

Hi Grasshope, Honeybee looks for available/installed EnergyPlus versions of EP on your system and picks the latest version. If you have any version after 8-1-0 installed on your system Honeybee should run the analysis on your system.

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 10, 2015 at 8:51am

Thank you, Mostapha!

However, after I uninstalled EP8.3 and leave only EP8.1 on my computer, the Run Energy Simulation component will only generate the IDF file and the bat file.

In the .bat file, EP8.3 folder is still specified as the place to call Epl-run.bat (see the content of it below).

Can you kindly advise? (I've updated my Honeybee, and the Run Energy Simulation version is 0.0.57 Jul_11_2015).

The .bat file generated:

C:
cd\temp\house\house_01_withBlinds_noContext\EnergyPlus\
C:\EnergyPlusV8-3-0\\Epl-run C:\temp\house\house_01_withBlinds_noContext\EnergyPlus\house_01_withBlinds_noContext C:\temp\house\house_01_withBlinds_noContext\EnergyPlus\house_01_withBlinds_noContext idf "C:\EnergyPlusV8-1-0\WeatherData\USA_CA_San.Francisco.Intl.AP.724940_TMY3.epw" EP N nolimit N N 0 Y

Permalink Reply by Grasshope on August 10, 2015 at 9:00am

... sorry, I just noticed that Mostapha mentioned in his reply that we should have "any version after 8-1-0" to make the auto search EP function of Honeybee work ...

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 15, 2015 at 1:18pm

Grasshope,

From my understanding of what I see in the Honeybee code, using v 8.1.0 should still work with the current Honeybee (I believe that Mostapha might have been paraphrasing).  It seems that Honeybee should not be writing to 8-3-0 if you have uninstalled it.  How did you uninstall it?  Is there still a EnergyPlusV8-3-0 folder in your C:\ drive?

-Chris