pyenergyplus.api define weather

asked 2024-01-21 13:47:31 -0500

oprislan
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updated 2024-01-22 16:25:03 -0500

Aaron Boranian

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Hello,

I'm really lost and need your help. I installed pyenergyplus.api / NBNL V 23.2 and try to run a simple idf file as a test. The run throws an error eplusout.err, that I didn't specify a weather.epw file. I tried chatGPT, but it refers to a IDF and Weather class in energyplus.api which aren't ther in the 23.2 version ...

can you guide me to a detailed API description for version 23.2?
can you provide a running example?

Thank you

answered 2024-01-22 01:43:04 -0500

hermmanhender
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Hi! Can you share the Python script to see the problem?

You need to add two entries in the api.runtime.run_energyplus, the first one is an state that you need to create as:

state = api.state_manager.new_state()

And the second one is a list with five elements. Two of them are always the same ('d' and 'w') and the other three are the paths into your output directory, epw file and IDF/epjson file:

run_energyplus( state, ‘-d’, ‘/path/to/output/directory’, ‘-w’, ‘/path/to/weather.epw’, ‘/path/to/input.idf’ ] )

I hope that this help you!