Honeybee_door_detail

Hi @MaxMarschall ,

If you want to use the current Honeybee components to model an open door, then I would suggest modeling as an aperture. However, if you’re willing to do a bit of scripting with the Ladybug Tools SDK, you’ll see that you can assign AFN ventilation properties to doors just as you would apertures. So you can just write a GHPython component that can assign a custom VentilationOpening object to the door to customize the physicals properties of how it opens.

However, the control logic that we have implemented in Honeybee is on the Room level so you won’t be able to close the door separately from the windows of the room. Still, you can schedule both of them to close at night using a schedule on the room’s VentilationContorl object.

If you really need to controls for the door to be separated from the windows, the only way to do this right now is to edit the EMS control logic in the IDF that Honeybee outputs. You could do that manually or with an OpenStudio measure but I’ll warn that there’s a big learning curve to jump between just editing the Honeybee properties in Grasshopper to editing EMS logic in an IDF (or with the OpenStudio SDK in the case of a measure).

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