OpenStudio and Radiance lighting schedule export
Is there a way to apply the lighting schedules that are created by Radiance from one iteration to another? In other words, I have a model that has the envelope finalized, the only modifications I am making are to HVAC equipment. I could save a lot of time, and hard drive space, by running my first simulation with Radiance and then using the same lighting schedules created by that simulation in later simulations, instead of running the radiance simulation every single time I want to see the impact of changing a non-daylighting related parameter. Is this possible?
This would also be helpful for when I need to make modifications to the .idf file that I cannot make in OpenStudio. I would then be able to run a simulation directly in E+ with the Radiance lighting schedules.
You could always output the schedules to a file (csv or json) when running the Radiance measure and reimport them and apply to model (openstudio measure) before running the simulation.
Julien's point is well taken. The OpenStudio Radiance measure does save the shade schedules to CSV, but not the lighting schedules. Can I get a feature request up in here?
I have another feature request: could you update your picture to another john doe please?
@rpg777 Fix it!
@edixon16, I'm sure the measure mavens here could point you to something more concrete, but the general idea is you could write a custom measure that reads in your CSV and your model, gets the schedule(s) you wish to replace or update, and then applies them as a series of "OS:Schedule:FixedInterval" objects. Have a look at this script for sample code.