Hi there again,
Thank you for the explanation!
Yesterday, I tried running the daylight to energy sample from ladybug installation files and the ‘HB Daylight Control Schedule Component’ ran successfully. Then, I tried running it with my own model, but the energy simulation failed and this error came up “1. Solution exception:Failed to compute control schedule.”
I tried building my model from scratch to see where the problems came from. The component throws an error when I plugged in a room that doesn’t have any windows to the HB Model. So there is no daylight coming into the room hence no DA or UDI reading for the room. So because of this, I think the daylight-to-energy component is unable to create a schedule for the whole building and hence throws an error. I’m doing a daylight parametric study of a terrace house, so there is, in fact, a room that doesn’t have any windows and is mainly used for circulation (room with red arrow below).
But this problem didn’t occur with LBT 1.3.0! The component still gives me results even though there is a room with no window. So I could still see the impact of daylight on energy consumption for other rooms in the building. Below are fractions of the lighting load results I did previously with LBT 1.3.0. The results of the windowless room (named ‘family’) are constant but we could still see varying results for the rest of the room.
How can I get around this?? Is there something I missed in the new version? Thank you again for your help!