Accessing isConditioned() from a Surface in 0penStudio Ruby

asked 2015-06-26 05:07:16 -0500

Pouya Kary
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updated 2015-07-10 13:32:14 -0500

__AmirRoth__

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Hi! Thanks for all the answers by now.

I have this problem in OpenStudio Ruby SDK as I want to access the isConditioned from a Surface. All that comes to my mind is doing something like:

surface.space.get.thermalZone.isConditioned()

And it doesn't works. I can get the thermal zone and it works till than but I can't get any property of it. Anyone knows the right syntax or way to do it?

Thanks a lot as always

answered 2015-06-26 09:31:52 -0500

aparker

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Here is a method that you pass a surface into. It returns true if conditioned, false if not.

def is_surface_conditioned(surface)
  # Not conditioned if not in a space
  return false unless surface.space.is_initialized
  space = surface.space.get
  # Not conditioned if space has no zone
  return false unless space.thermalZone.is_initialized
  zone = space.thermalZone.get
  # Not conditioned if zone is not conditioned
  return false unless zone.isConditioned
  # Must be conditioned
  return true
end

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Your original idea was almost right (just missing a .get on the thermalZone) and would have worked for many cases. However, Andrew's code includes a lot more error checking and is more robust.