Welcome to pyEp’s documentation!¶
Introduction¶
This is the documentation for pyEp, a Python module that allows for easy cosimulation between the building energy simulation program EnergyPlus and Python. Also included in this module is the EnergyPlus-OPC bridge service, which allows for EnergyPlus simulation over the OPC communications protocol. pyEp is currently supported for Python 2.7 and 3.X.
Installation¶
pyEp is available on PyPi. Simply type pip install pyEp if you have pip installed. Otherwise you can download it from the github repo pyEp.
Requirements¶
pyEp¶
The pyEp core module requires Python 2.7 or 3.x. In order to run a simulation with EnergyPlus, you must have a version of EnergyPlus installed. pyEp has been tested with EnergyPlus 8.1 and 8.4, but should work with any 8.x version. EnergyPlus can be downloaded here
EnergyPlus-OPC Bridge¶
The EnergyPlus-OPC bridge uses the pyEp core module to run a simulation across an OPC server. The service uses OpenOPC, which requires pywin32, and pyro3. Additionally, a simulated OPC server software must be installed. The recommended server is the MatrikonOPC Simulation Server.