Import gbXML: Expected Path got str Error

demianvk · October 17, 2018, 7:14pm

Good morning,
I’m have some difficulty myself with the XMLtoHB component.
The xml file in question opens nicely in OpenStudio (and Spider viewer) but I get:

It has to be something simple I am doing wrong, any ideas?

Thand for your time,

mostapha · October 17, 2018, 7:33pm

Hi @demianvk,

This is because of a recent change in OpenStudio API. I believe you are using OpenStudio 2.6 or newer. This is already addressed and is available on GitHub.

You can either update Ladybug and Honeybee installation or use and older version of OpenStudio.

minggangyin · October 18, 2018, 8:36am

@demianvk Maybe because your path have the space.Please change the path and try again!

demianvk · October 18, 2018, 5:31pm

Mostapha made the call, I had the latest version of OpenStudio installed. I updated Ladybug and Honeybee from Github and we up and running:

Thanks for checking in.

Justin_Shultz · October 19, 2018, 5:09pm

Hi @mostapha,
Is there a way to manually point Honeybee to an older version of OpenStudio?

By the way, updating to the newest code on Github fixed the problem. Thank you!

mostapha · October 20, 2018, 3:20am

Hi @Justin_Shultz,

Yes. It’s possible. After honeybee_honeybee is executed you can overwrite the path. This will be overwritten every time that a honeybee_honeybee component is executed and you have to re-run this code again!

import scriptcontext as sc

sc.sticky["honeybee_folders"]["OSLibPath"] = "C:/openstudio-2.5.0/CSharp/openstudio"

blondahouse · October 20, 2018, 11:38am

How to update from github??

wim · October 20, 2018, 11:43am

Use the Ladybug_Update Ladybug component:

demianvk · October 20, 2018, 2:59pm

Wim’a snap shot below is the easiest way.

I did have a problem with updating honeybee through the tool (honeybee has a similar method as ladybug shown in the snapshot), I had to download the user tools and over write the old ones.

blondahouse · October 20, 2018, 3:35pm

thks! i’ve updated the same way!

mostapha · October 20, 2018, 3:47pm

Did you try this file? Let us know if the issue persists.

http://hydrashare.github.io/hydra/viewer?owner=mostaphaRoudsari&fork=hydra_1&id=Update_Ladybug_and_Honeybee&slide=0&scale=1&offset=0,0

Javed · October 29, 2018, 6:12pm

Thank you mostapha for re-directing here. I updated LB and HB component but problem still persist. Though I haven’t tried updating OSM path to manually point Honeybee to an older version of OpenStudio.

Any pointers?

thank you,

mostapha · October 29, 2018, 7:24pm

Did you restart both Rhino and Grasshopper after updating the components? Rhino caches the libraries so unless you restart Rhino it will be still using the older version of OpenStudio implementation. Can you share a screenshot of the error message?

Javed · October 31, 2018, 5:48pm

Here I attached the screenshot of error message.

demianvk · October 31, 2018, 7:45pm

Javed,

The tool you are trying to use has been updated to accommodate changes to the latest verion of OpenStudio’s API.
The best thing to do is update to the latest version.

Regards,
Demian

Javed · November 1, 2018, 3:10am

Thank you, Demian. When i manually replaced the component with the newer one, the error message went away. But some other component started popping up similar message [ refer screenshot]. Is there a way to get updated all the component? I have actually updated the HB and LB with the Honeybee_update_honeybee.