I fixed this issue with reloading the measure the next time that you open the file:
The easiest way to get a CSV export right now is to deconstruct the output data collections into a steam of values with the “LB Deconstruct Data” component:
Then write these values into a CSV/Excel file using any of the plugins that do this on Food4Rhino like TTToolbox or bunblebee, etc.
Admittedly, you are not the first person to ask for this so maybe we’ll add a honeybee component that parses the whole SQL into a CSV if that’s what everyone wants. Or we can make our own version of a data-collections-to-csv component. Would you prefer a “whole-SQL-to-CSV” component over a component that you connect up individual data collections to and it writes just those data collections into the CSV file?
I can’t account for the EnergyPlus errors that get thrown from the use of the ground temperature measure. All I can say is that the inputs of the measure are being correctly passed to OpenStudio and the measure is being executed correctly. If applying the measure results in un-simulate-able EnergyPlus models, that’s and issue for the measure’s author. If you are in touch with the author and they give you some sort of criteria that the OpenStudio model needs to satisfy in order to work correctly, then I can advise on whether we can get the exported honeybee model to meet them. But I didn’t see any of these criteria listed in the measure’s documentation.
One last update:
We are past the big breaking changes that I mentioned in my older posts. So you can now delete your ladybug_tools folder and re-run the latest installer here to get the latest updates:
https://github.com/ladybug-tools/lbt-grasshopper/raw/master/installer.gh
HOWEVER, there is one last change that I was hoping to make before you have all of the tutors install, which is that I wanted to add a “Versioner” component (aka. “Updater” component) to Ladybug. This would allow you to update your installation without having to delete the ladybug_tools folder, download the installer, and re-run the two components each time. This would also allow you to go back to older versions of the plugin if you update and realize that the latest version is buggy. If you can give me one more day or two, I can get this component into ladybug and then, once your tutors go through the installation process once, they’ll be able to just use the updater component here on out to get the latest updates.