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I put my money down on a SPOT-Pro license.

For LEED v4 Daylighting, this spits out every report of interest and can handle all calculations in full (including blinds / complex fenestration). The GUI is a pretty barebones excel workbook that interacts directly with the radiance engine to perform all calculations. What I liked most is that once you get through a set of calculations for a space, there is a LOT of constructive feedback concerning not just where problems exist spatially (i.e. too much glare), but how one might go about fixing the design.

You can find a free trial here: https://www.daylightinginnovations.com/spot-home

This (long-ish) youtube video also walks through what using SPOT Pro is like in practice. Note they're trying to showcase everything SPOT can do, which goes well beyond what you need to satisfy LEEDv4 (you won't need artificial lighting/sensor inputs or associated metrics/reports): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBFe83HRSY

I put my (personal) money down on a SPOT-Pro license.

For LEED v4 Daylighting, this spits out every report of interest and can handle all calculations in full (including blinds / complex fenestration). The GUI is a pretty barebones excel workbook that interacts directly with the radiance engine to perform all calculations. What I liked most is that once you get through a set of calculations for a space, there is a LOT of constructive feedback concerning not just where problems exist spatially (i.e. too much glare), but how one might go about fixing the design.

You can find a free trial here: https://www.daylightinginnovations.com/spot-home

This (long-ish) youtube video also walks through what using SPOT Pro is like in practice. Note they're trying to showcase everything SPOT can do, which goes well beyond what you need to satisfy LEEDv4 (you won't need artificial lighting/sensor inputs or associated metrics/reports): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBFe83HRSY