Loading PNNL Prototype IDF files?

I was trying to read in an IDF file to Honeybee-Energy, and got an error I don’t quite understand:

Runtime error (FileNotFoundException): Could not find file '/Users/em/simulation/us+mf+cz4a+oilfurnace+heatedbsmt+iecc_2024.hbjson'.

Traceback:
  line 163, in script

I was attempting to read in one of the PNNL example files so I could get a schedule from it for use in my own model:
https://www.energycodes.gov/prototype-building-models#Residential

and received the above error. So I wonder…

  1. Is it possible to open up an IDF file in this manner? This is the first time I’ve ever tried, so maybe it just isn’t a supported operation?
  2. What does this error mean exactly? Why is it looking for an .hbjson file?
  3. Is there anything else I might do to get this to work? Has anyone ever successfully opened a PNNL example file in Honeybee-Energy?

any thoughts or recommendations are appreciated as always!
@edpmay

Hi @edpmay, hope your well.
SO ive not used that component with pnnl models, so this might not be helpful. Ive used the rhino side pollination tool and hit “open” and selecting filetype idf and selecting the idf.
Though the model took upgrading (tools in pre-process folder in E+'s dir).
Even though it upgrades them to the correct version there still may be some object names that weren’t updated or were passed over during all the sequential updates done by the updater.
The errors given when opening files after edits helped to track down the last issue.
I’d send you the before and after idf’s but my computer was recently stolen so I don’t have them anymore.
Hopefully something there is useful.
best
trevor

Edit: reinstalled rhino and pollination and will tinker with the above model

@edpmay here is the error I get when loading up the pollination way
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maybe the version upgrade will fix the issue you are having since its only a sub version id hope not much if any would need to be manually edited

Interesting - thanks @TrevorFedyna ! Appreciate you taking a look. That is too bad - there is some good stuff in those example files. Would be really useful to be able to pull out some of those nuggets right in GH. I’ll take another look at some point and see if I can sort out the versioning issues there sans Pollination.

thanks!!
@edpmay