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Schedule Missing Days error due to Radiance

Hello,

I'm a tutor in a course of nearly 40 students who are using OpenStudio and Radiance for energy and daylight modelling. We have had two students so far have an error that says "ProcessScheduleInput: Schedule:Compact="T1 - TZ LIGHTS SCHEDULE" has missing days in its schedule pointers". When looking at the in.idf files, the lighting schedule that Radiance is passing back to OpenStudio has stopped at a date early in the year instead of running for the entire year (1/24, 1/25, 3/07,4/10 are all dates that it has stopped at).

Having been given one of the models from the student (one pre-Radiance, and one with a Radiance attempt), I have made numerous changes to check what was going on, as well as comparing the model with one of my own that does have Radiance working (where I cannot see any differences in any parameters that would possibly affect it). If I take the base working model and apply Radiance, it throws the same error. If I delete out all the zones except the zone with Radiance in it, it runs. If I change the constructions of the walls, it also runs. If I delete out all the floors except the floor that the Radiance zone is in (not changing constructions), it also works. If I keep everything the same and simply re-surface match the floors that the student already has, it fails again. Copying the floor that works and surface matching it worked on Friday, but when I ran it again on Monday it failed again with the same error.

I cannot see where there is a common issue in this, or what each solution does that makes it work again. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Schedule Missing Days error due to Radiance

Hello,

I'm a tutor in a course of nearly 40 students who are using OpenStudio and Radiance for energy and daylight modelling. We have had two students so far have an error that says "ProcessScheduleInput: Schedule:Compact="T1 - TZ LIGHTS SCHEDULE" has missing days in its schedule pointers". When looking at the in.idf files, the lighting schedule that Radiance is passing back to OpenStudio has stopped at a date early in the year instead of running for the entire year (1/24, 1/25, 3/07,4/10 are all dates that it has stopped at).

Having been given one of the models from the student (one pre-Radiance, and one with a Radiance attempt), I have made numerous changes to check what was going on, as well as comparing the model with one of my own that does have Radiance working (where I cannot see any differences in any parameters that would possibly affect it). If I take the base working model and apply Radiance, it throws the same error. If I delete out all the zones except the zone with Radiance in it, it runs. If I change the constructions of the walls, it also runs. If I delete out all the floors except the floor that the Radiance zone is in (not changing constructions), it also works. If I keep everything the same and simply re-surface match the floors that the student already has, it fails again. Copying the floor that works and surface matching it worked on Friday, but when I ran it again on Monday it failed again with the same error.

I cannot see where there is a common issue in this, or what each solution does that makes it work again. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Schedule Missing Days error due to Radiance

Hello,

I'm a tutor in a course of nearly 40 students who are using OpenStudio and Radiance for energy and daylight modelling. We have had two students so far have an error that says "ProcessScheduleInput: says:

ProcessScheduleInput: Schedule:Compact="T1 - TZ LIGHTS SCHEDULE" has missing days in its schedule pointers".  pointers.

When looking at the in.idf in.idf files, the lighting schedule that Radiance is passing back to OpenStudio has stopped at a date early in the year instead of running for the entire year (1/24, 1/25, 3/07,4/10 are all dates that it has stopped at).

Having been given one of the models from the student (one pre-Radiance, and one with a Radiance attempt), I have made numerous changes to check what was going on, as well as comparing the model with one of my own that does have Radiance working (where I cannot see any differences in any parameters that would possibly affect it). If I take the base working model and apply Radiance, it throws the same error. If I delete out all the zones except the zone with Radiance in it, it runs. If I change the constructions of the walls, it also runs. If I delete out all the floors except the floor that the Radiance zone is in (not changing constructions), it also works. If I keep everything the same and simply re-surface match the floors that the student already has, it fails again. Copying the floor that works and surface matching it worked on Friday, but when I ran it again on Monday it failed again with the same error.

I cannot see where there is a common issue in this, or what each solution does that makes it work again. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Schedule Missing Days error due to Radiance

I'm a tutor in a course of nearly 40 students who are using OpenStudio and Radiance for energy and daylight modelling. We have had two students so far have an error that says:

ProcessScheduleInput: Schedule:Compact="T1 - TZ LIGHTS SCHEDULE" has missing days in its schedule pointers.

When looking at the in.idf files, the lighting schedule that Radiance is passing back to OpenStudio has stopped at a date early in the year instead of running for the entire year (1/24, 1/25, 3/07,4/10 are all dates that it has stopped at).

Having been given one of the models from the student (one pre-Radiance, and one with a Radiance attempt), I have made numerous changes to check what was going on, as well as comparing the model with one of my own that does have Radiance working (where I cannot see any differences in any parameters that would possibly affect it).

  • If I take the base working model and apply Radiance, it throws the same error.
  • If I delete out all the zones except the zone with Radiance in it, it runs.
  • If I change the constructions of the walls, it also runs.
  • If I delete out all the floors except the floor that the Radiance zone is in (not changing constructions), it also works.
  • If I keep everything the same and simply re-surface match the floors that the student already has, it fails again.
  • Copying the floor that works and surface matching it worked on Friday, but when I ran it again on Monday it failed again with the same error.

I cannot see where there is a common issue in this, or what each solution does that makes it work again. Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.