BCVTB with EnergyPlus

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Hello All,

EnergyPlus Version: 9.0.1 BCVTB Version: 1.6.0 (April 20, 2016) Ptolemy 2 Version: 11.0 (devel)

I am new to BVCTB and EnergyPlus and trying to learn the SW by trying different examples.

Following one of the examples, I created a very simple EnergyPlus .idf file where I am trying to just plot the Output Variables on BCVTB Plotter.

https://imgur.com/XtptEGD

Following is the .cfg file I made,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE BCVTB-variables SYSTEM "variables.dtd">
<BCVTB-variables>
  <!-- The elements received from the EnergyPlus -->
  <variable source="EnergyPlus">
   <EnergyPlus name="ENVIRONMENT" type="Site Outdoor Air Drybulb Temperature"/>     
  </variable>
  <variable source="EnergyPlus">
    <EnergyPlus name="ZSF1" type="Zone Air Temperature"/>
  </variable>
</BCVTB-variables>

In the IDF file, I have only three OutPut Variables

Output:Variable,*,Zone Air Temperature,Detailed;
Output:Variable,*,Site Outdoor Air Drybulb Temperature,Timestep;
Output:Variable,*,Zone Air Temperature,Timestep;

As I do not have any input to the EnergyPlus I did not use the ExternalInterface in the IDF.

Now, I checked the .IDF file runs perfectly okay in the EnergyPlus and produces outputs with no Severe Error. Also, when I run the file with BCVTB, it shows no error on EnergyPlus.

But, I am getting a SocketTimeoutException error and does not show any plot. It does not even open any plot window. I tried increasing the 'socketTimeout' to 10000 but still the same error.

So you know why do I have this error and how I can resolve it?

The link below have all the documents for the model (.idf, .xml, .cfg) https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...