Hey @AbrahamYezioro ,
Sorry for the late response here. It’s on my radar and I have it pinned in my personal agenda but it would take me a couple of days to implement this and there have been other things that have taken priority. So that’s the only reason why I have not been responding here and you can rest assured that I will eventually get to it.
From what I can tell, I think we came to a consensus if you are alright with the shade line moving depending on whether “Capture Internal Gains” is already plotted. I also think maybe some of this difference between “strategy” and “recommendation” will go away when you see the implementation that I have in mind, which I’m imagining is an idealized version of what shade can do. It’s probably going to be closer to some type of dynamic shade that is deployed to block all of the sun at the times when it’s helpful, thereby showing the overall potential for shade as a strategy.
I also agree with the statement that “the sun should be prevented from entering the building when conditions are to the right of the shade line” just like I agree with the statement “the ceiling fans should be turned on whenever conditions are to the right of the comfort polygon.”
I just don’t want to present hours as comfortable if they aren’t ultimately going to be able to make it inside the comfort polygon between all of the currently-applied strategies.
What do you think of this:
In addition to adding a “Shade Line” I’ll also add some strategy lines for “Active Cooling” and “Active Heating”. Turning on the “Active Cooling” line will get the Shade line to behave almost exactly how you originally described it. Basically, we will model shade as something that is applied on top of all the other strategies and, if one of those strategies is “Active Cooling”, then virtually all of the sunny hours to the right of the shade line are going to merit the deployment of shade to help keep conditions inside the comfort polygon.
Could this work well for you?