Hi,
I’m checking IDF definitions for a project I’m doing. Right now I’m dealing with the checking of various schedules I’m defining in LBT.
I’m using seasonal schedules to define winter/summer seasons and for triggering windows shades.
This is the plot for the later in GH (red color is when the shades is On):
You can see that one state runs from January to end of April and again in December. The second state runs from May to end of November.
When i check the
Schedule:Year
section in the IDF this is what i see:For some reason the schedules are set to the 25th day of the last month of the states (25th March and 25th November). A couple of groups were added in order to complete the period (say 26th March to April 1st, which is not OK since the period should end on March 31th, but let’s continue).
Now I’m checking the
Schedule:Week:Daily
section.From the image we can see that the second group (Object 21 in the section) is setting a different schedule for Saturdays (Schedule Day 2). Also the 4th group (object 23) assigns different schedules for Fridays and Saturdays (should be similar to object 22). And finally, the last group (object 24) is completely different than objects 20 or 21 that represent the same season.
The last thing to check is how those daily schedules are defined. The
Schedule:Day:Interval
section show the following:Schedule Day 1 and ShdWinter_Day schedules (Objects16 and 19 in the IDF) define the winter settings while the other 2 the summer.
If we go back to the previous image we can see that there is a mess in the schedules, where sometimes in winter time the summer’s are assigned and for the summer some winter schedules are assigned also.
Hope all this is clear enough to understand the issue. Sorry for the long post.
Hopefully you can help to bring some clarity on this one.
Thanks,
-A.