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2025-04-15 07:32:56 -0500 answered a question Pat measures don't appear in measure library

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio-PAT/issues/283

2025-03-26 09:17:29 -0500 answered a question Issue with Local Server on Parametric Analysis Tool (PAT) and Question on Unmet Hours

PAT 3.9.1 has been released with a fix for this startup issue here

2025-03-26 09:16:44 -0500 answered a question PAT 3.9 start server error

PAT 3.9.1 has been released with a fix for this issue here

2025-03-26 09:15:15 -0500 edited answer Unable to start PAT Server 3.9.0

3.8.0 and 3.9.0 had errors in them during the conversion from Ruby 2.7 to Ruby 3.2. We have taken them down. We've ident

2025-03-06 08:38:57 -0500 answered a question how to connect to the server for PAT algorithm run

While cloud computing capabilities have grown, its gotten less turn key. For now, users are expected to use the helm re

2025-02-21 14:07:04 -0500 edited answer Unable to start PAT Server 3.9.0

3.8.0 and 3.9.0 had errors in them during the conversion from Ruby 2.7 to Ruby 3.2. We have taken them down. We've ident

2025-02-21 14:03:30 -0500 answered a question Unable to start PAT Server 3.9.0

3.8.0 and 3.9.0 had errors in them during the conversion from Ruby 2.7 to Ruby 3.2. We have taken them down. We've ident

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2025-02-21 13:53:09 -0500 answered a question PAT datapoint failure

That console has log messages for the PAT application itself. What you want is the actual datapoint simulation logs, si

2025-02-06 08:08:43 -0500 commented question PAT 3.9 start server error

We can replicate the issue and are working on a fix.

2024-10-14 08:38:25 -0500 commented question Issue with Local Server on Parametric Analysis Tool (PAT) and Question on Unmet Hours

Can you try with 3.7.0? There are issues with 3.8.0 that we are working on fixing.

2024-10-04 11:57:51 -0500 commented question Issue with Local Server on Parametric Analysis Tool (PAT) and Question on Unmet Hours

you can manually run the command that PAT uses to start the local server by copying the command thats displayed after th

2024-05-20 08:39:29 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

hm, no logs in those directories is concerning and certainly makes things difficult to debug. There is the developer co

2024-05-15 09:45:33 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

just saw the EDIT2 comments. The error is [2024-05-13T15:06:05.565994 #8212] ERROR -- : Mongod failed to launch. Please

2024-05-15 09:45:00 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

This is also in the EDIT2 output System call will be: 'mongod.exe --port 27017 --logpath "C:/Users/mbx/Documents/model_f

2024-05-15 09:44:12 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

just saw the EDIT2 comments. The error is [2024-05-13T15:06:05.565994 #8212] ERROR -- : Mongod failed to launch. Please

2024-05-15 09:38:34 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

side note, given your goal, I would approach it a different way and maybe this will work for you as well. Here is a repo

2024-05-15 08:45:49 -0500 commented question Running PAT on VirtualBox VM - server won't launch

trying to catch up, so it does work on the local Windows 11 base box, but the server wont start in the virtualbox VM on

2024-04-25 09:09:22 -0500 commented question PAT Summary Table empty in Manual Mode (GET DATAPOINT OUT.OSW ERROR)

sorry, just seeing this. The example project in the PAT repo are very old and I dont think those measures work anymore.

2024-04-13 08:36:54 -0500 answered a question How can I generate an eQuest "parms" equivalent in OpenStudio?

There are notebooks here that document how to use the various SDK and CLI methods to run parametric analyses using OSAF.

2024-03-21 08:10:47 -0500 commented question Parametric Analysis Tool Completed Datapoint Failure

those are the logs for the server backend. The sdp_log_file (toggle view) link doesnt show a log or an error in your mi

2024-02-19 09:42:58 -0500 commented question Parametric Analysis Tool Completed Datapoint Failure

look in your project folder, in the datapoint run directories for run logs and .err files

2024-01-17 19:03:47 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

i'm sad to say but 3.7.0 also got packaged with the wrong energyplus version. We had a change in personnel and have bee

2024-01-08 09:14:07 -0500 commented question OpenStudio PAT Worker Initialization Failed

is this a shared drive or something? I would expect the path to be 'c:\ something something', instead its 'JCl_LenexaKS

2023-10-25 16:13:16 -0500 commented answer How to resolve PAT "server failed to start" error?

also, try using the latest 3.6.1-1 release.

2023-10-25 16:11:50 -0500 commented answer How to resolve PAT "server failed to start" error?

this will sound silly, but reboot your computer to kill any zombie ruby processes from previous failed startups. copy th

2023-07-15 07:23:03 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

navigate using the OSAF GUI (view server button from PAT), to the datapoint page for the failed datapoint.you do that by

2023-07-14 12:56:36 -0500 commented answer datapoint failure error in PAT

what about the other log files in the datapoint zip?

2023-06-30 13:34:33 -0500 answered a question EnergyPlus error when running model in PAT

3.6.1 was released with the wrong version of EnergyPlus. 3.6.1-1 was just released to fix that issue.

2023-06-30 13:32:38 -0500 answered a question datapoint failure error in PAT

PAT 3.6.0 and 3.6.1 have an issue where they were packaged with the wrong version of EnergyPlus. 3.6.1-1 was just relea

2023-06-30 13:29:54 -0500 commented answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

just added a link to some slides which include tips on how to debug

2023-06-30 13:29:27 -0500 edited answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

That error message on the Admin page was just cosmetic and is safe to ignore. It was fixed a few versions ago issue her

2023-06-29 12:27:30 -0500 edited answer parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

OS 3.6.0 Should use EnergyPlus 23.1 compatibility matrix. PAT 3.6.1 is getting re-released since it had the wrong ver

2023-06-29 06:48:42 -0500 commented question datapoint failure error in PAT

i would be looking for the datapoint simulation log and the energyplus .err file. Those are avail from a datapoint page

2023-06-28 14:38:39 -0500 commented question datapoint failure error in PAT

really need more information than that, but you can start by viewing the server in a webpage. from there you can downlo

2023-06-28 07:35:43 -0500 commented answer Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

the analysis error can be debugged on the Analysis GUI page. theres a link to see the 'log' just to the right of the li

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2023-06-27 07:46:08 -0500 answered a question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

That error message on the Admin page was just cosmetic and is safe to ignore. It was fixed a few versions ago issue

2023-06-27 07:43:22 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

you can ignore that CLI version error, that was fixed in later updates

2023-06-27 07:42:16 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

okay, that method to start/stop AWS resources was deprecated. That relied on older EC2 instances which are increasingly

2023-06-26 14:52:57 -0500 commented question Run-on-Cloud Analysis Error

are you running in the local PAT server? or using a cluster stood up by using the helm charts (or your own docker swarm

2023-06-26 14:52:01 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio Server JSON path

looks like you have it correctly. The 'directory to include' will get added to the project.zip file and submitted to th

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2023-06-08 09:04:00 -0500 commented answer parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

try using PAT 3.5.1. its best to use the same version of all the tools.

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2023-06-07 12:46:35 -0500 answered a question parametric analysis tool energy plus version error

OS 3.6.0 uses EnergyPlus 23.1 compatibility matrix.

2023-03-27 09:55:50 -0500 answered a question What optimization software is there for building optimization?

The OpenStudio Analysis Framework OSAF can do optimization for BEM/BPS.

2023-01-20 10:48:56 -0500 answered a question Energy Model Calibration Workflow

We created methods for calibration with OpenStudio models and had some examples in this repo: That workflow is now depr

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2022-12-13 13:04:55 -0500 commented answer What reporting measure should I use in a sensitivity analysis with the Morris method on the PAT to have boxing plots showing me which variable is most influential?

That sounds correct. An example OSA can be found here. The output variable section defines the output variables and whi