Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] *.Rvi File Question

[Linda Lawrie <lklawrie@xxxxxxxxx>]

You must use the rvi file for this purpose.  Whatever you put in report variables, get shoved out to the eso file (or in case of meters also the .mtr file) as they "come up" in the simulation.  The actual order for that would be shown in the first part of the eso file (before the part that says "End of Data Dictionary".

In the rvi file, you can either specify the generic form of the report variable, e.g.:

Zone/Sys Air Temperature
Zone/Sys Sensible Heating Energy
Zone/Sys Sensible Cooling Energy

or be really specific:
Zone 1:Zone/Sys Air Temperature
Zone 1:Zone/Sys Sensible Heating Energy
Zone 1:Zone/Sys Sensible Cooling Energy

The first instance will give you all the zones, Zone/Sys Air Temperature, followed by all the Zones, Zone/Sys Sensible Heating Energy, etc.  whereas the second will put the 3 variables by zone.

There are also ways of only getting out the hourly or monthly values in a csv file even though the eso file may contain multiple hourly and monthly mixed.

There is also the utility XESOView (not part of the EnergyPlus install) but you can find out about it on either the yahoo groups website or the energyplus.gov website.  I don't know if it would be suitable for your purposes or not.

Linda

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