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E+: Pause the simulation, get data, change schedules, continue simulation?

I want to know if it's possible to do the following:

Pause an ongoing simulation Make it execute another program and give it a simulation result on that timestep Get data as input from that external program Use that data and continue the simulation.

Basically, I want to run a year-long simulation stopping at the end of each day to execute external software. Giving that external software the value of a temperature at the time of stopping the simulation. Then, the external software does some calculations that result in schedule values for the next 24h of simulation. These calculations cannot be run inside an EMS directly. Has anyone worked with something similar to this?

E+: Pause the simulation, get data, change schedules, continue simulation?

I want to know if it's possible to do the following:

Pause an ongoing simulation Make it execute another program and give it a simulation result on that timestep Get data as input from that external program Use that data and continue the simulation.

Basically, I want to run a year-long simulation stopping at the end of each day to execute external software. Giving that external software the value of a temperature at the time of stopping the simulation. Then, the external software does some calculations that result in schedule values for the next 24h of simulation. These calculations cannot be run inside an EMS directly. Has anyone worked with something similar to this?

E+: Pause the simulation, get data, change schedules, continue simulation?

I want to know if it's possible to do the following:

Pause an ongoing simulation Make it execute another program and give it a simulation result on that timestep Get data as input from that external program Use that data and continue the simulation.

Basically, I want to run a year-long simulation stopping at the end of each day to execute external software. Giving that external software the value of a temperature at the time of stopping the simulation. Then, the external software does some calculations that result in schedule values for the next 24h of simulation. These calculations cannot be run inside an EMS directly. Has anyone worked with something similar to this?