Hi everyone, I am getting know the new stable version of Ladybug tools (1.3.0), and I am checking the example files which were downloaded with the plugins. I opened the Annual_daylight files and I have a question about it. For example I want to check the DA and in the example file which is plugged …

It looks like you’re plugging in some _thresholds_ to the annual daylight recipe and you aren’t plugging those same thresholds into to “Annual Daylight Metrics” component. It also seems like you are applying a _schedule_ in the recipe but you are not applying the same _occ_sch_ in “Annual Daylight M…

I did the same mistake couple months back, assuming that threshold/occ was set, but needs to be set again in new component. Might make sense to split them up, so both don’t have overlap in internal methods to avoid confusion.

The only purpose that the “Annual Daylight Metrics” component serves is if you want to re-calculate the annual metrics using different thresholds or occupancy without re-running the whole ray tracing. So, if the use cases of changing thresholds are niche, maybe we should get rid of the “Annual Dayli…

my 2c would be that you could inherit the threshold from the first component and only overwrite if you type something else into the annual metrics component. So if I set threshold to 100, then keep it there until overwritten. Instead of the annual metrics suddenly assuming 300. And i’d totally ke…

Hi @chris , I think the “Annual Daylight Metrics” is a very useful component, especially when working with the EN 17037 (both schedule and thresholds are needed in the standard methods), or when we want to set particular occupancy and thresholds. Please keep it!

Thank you so much guys. Yeah the problem was what you told me Chris (schedule and thresholds differences). Also makes sense when I should use the “Annual Daylight Metrics” as you suggested. Thanks everybody :).

[image] Mathiassn: For EN17037 i would need both 100, 300 and 500 lux to show different compliance It’s very good to know that the component has use cases that are for code compliance and are not so niche. We’ll keep it front and center, then. I agree that carrying over the thresholds of the…

Hi @chris totally makes sense to me! Enjoy the weekend, Best, M

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Annual Daylight analysis (1.3.0), showing different results from "Annual Daylight Metrics" than "Annual daylight" component (in example file)

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