EnergyPlus output variables in OpenStudio

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You can export single variables with the "Export Output Variable to csv" measure, and export single meters with the "Export Meter to csv" measure, available on BCL.

More detail on applying these is described in this unmet hours post

If you have several variables, use Julien Marrec's "Output Variables from csv" measure, which reads a list of output variables you would like from a csv file, also available on BCL.

On the unmet hours slack channel, Andrew Parker posted the DView measure, which will take the output variables you've requested and put them into a .csv file that can be read by DView for visual analysis.

Hi All

I just updated the "Export Meter to csv" for the OpenStudio Application 1.1.0, because I found the original one from BCL doesn't work anymore with new OpenStudio Application. Thus I learned from other OpenStudio measure and modified the original one. Thanks mdahlhausen for the original measure. It is great measure.

The modified measure.rb works well. As I do not have enough points to upload the .rb file, just put the related parts below.

1: the reporting class name

class ExportMetertoCSV < OpenStudio::Measure::ReportingMeasure

2: the arguments function

def arguments(model=nil)
    args = OpenStudio::Measure::OSArgumentVector.new

    #make an argument for the variable name
    meter_name = OpenStudio::Measure::OSArgument.makeStringArgument("meter_name",true)
    meter_name.setDisplayName("Enter Meter Name.")
    args << meter_name

    #make an argument for the reporting frequency
    reporting_frequency_chs = OpenStudio::StringVector.new
    reporting_frequency_chs << "Hourly"
    reporting_frequency_chs << "Zone Timestep"
    reporting_frequency = OpenStudio::Measure::OSArgument.makeChoiceArgument('reporting_frequency', reporting_frequency_chs, true)
    reporting_frequency.setDisplayName("Reporting Frequency.")
    reporting_frequency.setDefaultValue("Hourly")
    args << reporting_frequency

3: in run function

 def run(runner, user_arguments)
    super(runner, user_arguments)

    # use the built-in error checking 
    if !runner.validateUserArguments(arguments, user_arguments)
      return false
    end