Hi all,
I have a few questions regarding Daysim’s control modes and Honeybee’s implementation of them. Been lurking around the forum but haven’t found my answers unfortunately. Would appreciate any help!
Q1: I have a building with a dynamic venetian blind that have 5 slate states (up/inactivated, down/closed, horisontal, 30 and 60 degrees) and they are controlled by exterior irradiance on the facade with different thresholds. I want to calculate the annual illuminance on a grid in the room taking into account the different slate states. Is that possible, and if so how do I do that?
I’ve read that the only way to use an external sensor is to use the Glare Control Recipe, but there’s only one threshold for when the blind should activate, how do I add the other states, with the Shading State components?
Q2: I might’ve misunderstood how the simulation is carried out but why can’t you add the illuminance sensors (external/internal) before the daylight simulation when you calculate the effect of the blinds? Or am I missing something?
Maybe related: If I add three different shading states and also the Glare Control Recipe to the Advanced Dynamic Shading Recipe component I get the following error at Run Daylight Analysis:
Solution exception:‘GlareControl’ object has no attribute ‘exteriorSensor’
I’ve attached my example file with the error. Where do you add the exterior sensor?
Q3: Daysim have a control mode that might not be implemented yet in Honeybee, “External shading schedule” or “AnnualShadingSchedule”. Which imports a blind operation schedule as a csv file. See http://daysim.ning.com/page/daysim-shading-control-modes
If it isn’t implemented, is there a way to manually use this control mode at the moment?
All the best
M