Hi all,
I am wondering what is the process to follow if one want to develop a third party plug-in for EnergyPlus in order to model a type of behavior which is not taken account as of today?
I am not experienced yet in this software which is why I am asking this here today. But I am targeting it as I read that its open structure allows for an easy implementation of third-party software.
How "easy" is it? Can anyone do it, or does it maybe need to be approved by EnergyPlus for example? Can it then simply be loaded as a plug-in in EnergyPlus?
I did not really manage to find clear information about it.
For TRNSYS for example, the process is fairly easy and it is simply a new Type that has been coded, that can then simply be used in the software interface as any other existing Type of the software (if you are a bit familiar with TRNSYSâ?? interface). The code itself set apart, the process is rather straightforward.
I would now be able to do the same in EnergyPlus and am gathering information about the procedure to follow.
I can unfortunately not detail much more the aim of the third-party tool so far as it is still rather confidential, but I do hope this can be developed and released easily!
Thank you very much for your help on this.
Nils