Hi Folks.
Hope y’all are still all safe and well in whatever state of lockdown currently exists where you are.
Is there an ETA on the planned upload time for the Mac compatible release? We can run the daylight components in the Windows version of Honeybee+ (Not tried the 5 Phase option, at your suggestion). But we absolutely need the Mac version to work as well.
I am working with a colleague on developing some simple scripts for a class of around 250 (Architects, Building Scientists and Interior Architects) Starting for real on 12 July. In this class we have for over a decade run Climate Based Daylight Modelling and hourly energy simulation analysis on simple early design sketch projects.
We are hoping to implement this in Honeybee and Ladybug as a process that divorces the students from the mechanics of the simulation operation, enabling them to focus on the material properties and building component sizes (window areas, wall R-values etc).
In our original Windows school computer labs this worked fine.
In our COVID 19 environment we are reliant on the students working from home up to 1000km away possibly. That means we need a package that works on Mac as well as Windows.
We are still working on ironing out the installation issues to ensure that Honeybee Plus works OK on each Windows machine, and (as you can see from the script issues above) cannot get things working on the Mac O/s at all. Given we have only a month left to ensure the ~12 tutors are up and running, and that the software packages have been distributed to the students prior to the start of term, we need to make a call as to our software suite and assignment setups very soon.
We are more than happy to work with you on ironing out last minute bugs, documenting carefully what our issues are, and sheltering you from the 250+ student queries, should that be desirable. But, given the work put in thus far, and the potential to focus on design not software operation, we would be keen to work with a pre-release version and provide (filtered!) feedback, if that would help.
Regards
Mike