LB 1.2.0 Availability Schedules - Honeybee

Hi all,
This might be a silly question, but how do you implement availability schedules for heating/cooling in LB 1.2.0? I am currently only looking at a week or so and am negotiating this issue with high set points, but would like to use an availability schedule rather than a setpoint schedule.
Cheers!
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Check the SeasonalSchedule component.
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Good idea, though, at what point in the process can we apply an ON-OFF schedule to HVAC availability, it seems to me that all HVAC schedules only accept Temperature schedules.

@jgbrear with DOAS systems you have the ability to put an ON-OFF schedule.

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@Erikbeeren I just checked this out–it only curtails the DOAS system not the cooling system (in my case VRF). Any other ideas?

There’s a way to do it for Ideal Air Systems on the SDK layer:

https://www.ladybug.tools/honeybee-energy/docs/honeybee_energy.hvac.idealair.html#honeybee_energy.hvac.idealair.IdealAirSystem.cooling_availability

But all of the HVAC templates are so different from one another that there was no straightforward way to implement a heating/cooling availability schedule that worked across all of them. I recommend just setting back the room setpoints to an extreme value and that will give you the same effect as the availability schedule.

Awesome, thanks @chris!

hi @chris , may I ask how to implement this to HB model in LBT