[esp-r] Re: Old Esp-r - and relationship between ESP-r and Radiance

[Macdonald, Iain]

Hi,

I've just been fighting with this very issue! Here's what I've got working:
1) Radiance can be downloaded from github. I tried to compile it from source and that would not work for me. Download from https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases which has the installers.
2) Internally e2r (the ESP-r radiance module) converts all paths to windows style (back slash folder separator). I'm working on Windows/MSYS setup which when running the system command will execute the unix commands used by e2r with cmd.exe which treats all the back slashes as escape characters. In other words they don't work! 
3) Changing the above issues and where commands are chained using ";" to "&&" gets e2r working and I'm calculating daylight factors.

My code is a mess just now but once I finalise the changes that need to be made and figure out how to upload the code it will be there for everyone. 

One question for the group - when we talk about running on windows do we mean pure 100% windows or the Windows/MSYS combo?

Iain


-----Original Message-----
From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [mailto:esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jon Hand
Sent: November-06-15 11:44 AM
To: Minh Thach Nguyen; esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r] Re: Old Esp-r - and relationship between ESP-r and Radiance


Clarification of the relationship between ESP-r and Radiance

The Linux and OSX implementations of ESP-r can export models to Radiance. This involves starting up a number of radiance applications (there are dozens of the beasties).

For Windows - well as far a I know Radiance does not work in the same way in terms of building all of the tools that ESP-r expects to find. There is an installer for Radiance on Windows, however this might not include the full set of executables (like the display tools) and it has not been tested.

If you want to use ESP-r and Radiance together I would suggest Linux or OSX as platforms.  And it might be that someone in the community knows how to get the Windows version of Radiance to work with the native Windows version of ESP-r.  That would be good to know!

Regards, Jon Hand
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From: Minh Thach Nguyen [nguyenminhthach2271989 at gmail.com]
Sent: 05 November 2015 16:51
To: Jon Hand
Subject: Re: [esp-r] Old Esp-r

Thank you for writing my messenger .
This is my old version of ESP-r.​
[https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png] ESP-r_setup_native_windows_w7_v12_2a.exe<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WcOpZ17Rerc3VaMm1RdERrM0k/view?usp=drive_web>[X]
​Please help me . Thank you very much .


2015-11-05 22:35 GMT+09:00 Jon Hand <jon at esru.strath.ac.uk<mailto:jon at esru.strath.ac.uk>>:

Need more information to clarify 'please send to me old version of ESP-r'.  The github repository is just about to be updated with a new version with lots of improvements to the interactions with Radiance.  I would wait a few days for that to be in place and take the source from there.

And clarify 'do make by ESP-r 12.12'.  In what way was radiance model not created?

-Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk<mailto:esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk> [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk<mailto:esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk>] on behalf of Minh Thach Nguyen [nguyenminhthach2271989 at gmail.com<mailto:nguyenminhthach2271989 at gmail.com>]
Sent: 05 November 2015 13:12
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk<mailto:esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk>
Subject: [esp-r]  Old Esp-r

I want to create Radiance file by Esp-r but i could not do make by Esp-r 12.12 . So , please send to me old version of Esp-r to me .

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