Ironbug HB detailed HVAC error

Hi,
I am trying to run an energy simulation using the Ironbug sample files from the youtube tutorial, but whenever I try I obtain this same error in all of them in the detail HVAC component. Do you know how this can be solved?
“1. Solution exception:Could not load type ‘Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConverter`1’ from assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed’.”

Thanks

Hi @Julioamodia89 what version of Rhino are you using? It is most likely there is a conflict with another plugin that you have installed, and it uses the old version 9.0 of Newtonsoft.Json. Ironbug uses the 13.0.1 of Newtonsoft.Json.

Hi @MingboPeng,
I am currently using Rhino v8.

Rhino 8 itself works fine with Ironbug, it must be some other plugin you have installed. You will have to test it yourself.

I see. Ok, I will try to figure out where the problem could be.
In the meantime I was using the work around with the post Open Studio component.
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This way it works. I assume it does the same thing as using the detailed HVAC component with the disadvantage of duplicating the number of simulations. Am I correct?

Thanks

Here, you can set the “run_” to 2, which only translate the honeybee model to osm file, and you can use Ironbug’s SaveToFile to add your Ironbug system to osm file. At the end, you can use “rerun osm” component to execute the simulation. This is basically the same as you adding the Ironbug system via detailedHvac component at the front.

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Thank you @MingboPeng, that is very helpful.