Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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the following hack provides a work-around: with admin priviledges,
(1) create subdirectories /usr/local/share/openstudio-1.6.0/EnergyPlus-8-2-0/bin /usr/local/share/openstudio-1.6.0/bin (2) copy the following files into the sub-directories:
/usr/local/share/openstudio-1.6.0/bin
Energy+.idd EnergyPlus HVAC-Diagram libbcvtb.so libepexpat.so libepfmiimport.so ReadVarsESO
/usr/local/share/openstudio-1.6.0/bin
Energy+.idd EnergyPlus HVAC-Diagram libbcvtb.so libepexpat.so libepfmiimport.so ReadVarsESO
(3) after these installation modifications simulations can be started as a normal user by
/usr/local/share/openstudio-1.6.0/EnergyPlus-8-2-0/runenergyplus XXX.idf weatherfile.epw
This will produce a link to Energy+.idd in the working directory,
which has to be removed after the simulation manually, because otherwise
the next simulation run is blocked by the existing link.
APPLICATION:
In OpenStudio, not all available Output variables can be switched on or
off; however by editing the idf file, more output options can be
set; after this, one can directly start new simulations by program call (3).
