Direct ON-OFF Access to Heating/Cooling System via Python API
Hello,
I've got the attached IDF file and I'd like to gain direct access to the heating/cooling systems via the API.
Specifically I'm trying to avoid the use of setpoints or any internal logic built into energy plus and use it solely as a solver rather than have it try and control things. My goal is to fiddle with a control system of my own devising and trying to determine what I have control of versus what energyplus is trying to do is more trouble than it is worth.
Long and short if I tell the system to turn on, I would like it to run (ideally at a specific power rating), if I want it off, I want it off. Regardless of if this hits whatever performance goals is set by Energy Plus.
ShortVersion:
If I have an HVACTEMPLATE:SYSTEM:UNITARYHEATPUMP:AIRTOAIR
How do I force
Heat Pump Heating Coil Gross Rated Capacity {W}
Supplemental Heating Coil Capacity {W}
Cooling Coil Gross Rated Total Capacity {W}
to be applied at my say so...presumably through the use of an actuator. However the below code seems to only allow the actuator to run, rather than forcing it to run.
coolingSch_hndl = api.exchange.get_actuator_handle(state, "Schedule:Constant", "Schedule Value", "CoolingSch") api.exchange.set_actuator_value(state, coolingSch_hndl, 1)
