honeyBee run energy simulation

I've been working with Chris Mackey's tutorials on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92cyBvHPSDs

since it's a HoneyBee's older version, i've tried to update the file but there seems to be a problem (only with this file, apparently, I've had no problems with other files) with Enery plus_Run simulation

"solution exception: too many values to unpack"

I have everything properly installed, so...Am I doing something wrong?

Last but not least, thanks very much for the tutorials Chris, they're great and really useful!

Pablo

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8 - Importing Surface Level Results and Visualizing Them v0.58.gh, 634 KB

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Permalink Reply by Duncan Cox on August 2, 2016 at 5:31am

Hi Pablo

I can get this to run fine. I did notice you had a couple of legacy components still in your script. For example your 'Write EP result' is a 2014 component. This is the root of your problem.

Perhaps pull the latest from Github and make sure the components are updating. If not then I would manually update the ones you need as the script is not that big so should not take too long.

Thanks

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on August 2, 2016 at 8:34am

Hi Duncan,

Thank you for your reply, I hadn't realized i still had legacy components.

I've changed that but now it says I have "severe problems"

Do you managed to run fine?

Do I need to complete with more information (ie, schedules or so) for the simulation to run?

obviously I must be doing something wrong...

thanks again

Permalink Reply by Duncan Cox on August 2, 2016 at 9:19am

What are the severe problems?

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on August 2, 2016 at 10:21am

thanks in advance, Duncan

I attach one image with the problems

The severe problems are :

**Severe** Problem in interior solar distribution Calculation (CHKBKS)

**Severe** DetermineShadowingCombinations: There are 2 surfaces which are casting surfaces and are non-convex.

Apparently, what I see is that there's might be a problem with the adjancencies, but I just downloaded the file and try to update without modifying the geometry or the inputs.

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HoneyBee_severe problem.png, 327 KB

Permalink Reply by Duncan Cox on August 2, 2016 at 1:17pm

Hi Pablo

This is quite interesting and hopefully Chris/Mostapha et al can shed some light. I recently ran a +50 zone model and E+ became a little bit temperamental. I managed to 'force' it by changing some of the glazing ratios. I suspect something in glazing by percentage/child surface is causing it problems.

I think it is getting freaked out by the way the glazing is being built. It may be a tolerance issue in how Rhino deals with the vertices of each surface. I am however most likely wrong.

Anyway, any idea anyone?

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on August 2, 2016 at 6:04pm

Pablo,

This sounds like a prime case of not having all of the components up-to-date as Duncan says. You will likely have to manually update components if they are really old by re-dragging and dropping on the canvas.

I would also recommend getting your example files from the hydra platform as the ones from the videos are reall old at this point.

-Chris

Permalink Reply by Pablogomez on August 3, 2016 at 3:13am

Thank you both Duncan and Chris for having the time to answer,

Yeap, I've updated manually all the components but still...

I had previously worked with the examples of Hydra and the work really fine. They've been very useful to me. I was just trying to get in deeper with the videos but I wasn't able to work with this one in particular. After I updated all it's when the **severe problem** happened

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