Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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@xandrika there are several questions floating around in this thread
1) hours of operation is an OpenStudio only schedule, it is not used by EnergyPlus, it is meant to be used by OpenStudio measures
2) OpenStudio allows you to specify a schedule at the building schedule set level. This is applied to all spaces below (unless those spaces override the building level default). Normally, a single schedule representing an average occupancy (e.g. occupancy = 0.8) is acceptable. However, it sounds like you need 0 or 1 only schedules in all spaces such that the area weighted average will come out to 0.8. OpenStudio does not have any mechanism to do this. You could probably write an OpenStudio measure to do this or use EnergyPlus EMS objects.
3) OpenStudio does not yet support Schedule:File but that is on the roadmap to add soon.
4) OpenStudio uses an object call OS:ScheduleRuleset to define schedules, this is equivalent to but different from Schedule:Compact in EnergyPlus. OpenStudio uses its own format in order to support the graphical schedule editor.
