Error with imported weather file

[lilseigo]

Describe the bug There is an error when we run the radiation script with our imported weather file. Hardware: CEA 3.32.0 and windows 10. The Weather file is in the Zip file

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create any case study
2. import weather epw
3. Run the radiation script with the default parameters
4. error appears

Errorcode:

City Energy Analyst version 3.32.0 Running cea radiation with the following parameters:

• general:scenario = C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test (default: {general:project}{general:scenario-name})
• general:multiprocessing = True (default: True)
• general:number-of-cpus-to-keep-free = 1 (default: 1)
• general:debug = False (default: False)
• radiation:buildings = ['B1001', 'B1002'] (default: [])
• radiation:use-latest-daysim-binaries = True (default: True)
• radiation:albedo = 0.2 (default: 0.2)
• radiation:roof-grid = 10 (default: 10)
• radiation:walls-grid = 200 (default: 200)
• radiation:zone-geometry = 2 (default: 2)
• radiation:surrounding-geometry = 5 (default: 5)
• radiation:consider-floors = True (default: True)
• radiation:consider-intersections = False (default: False)
• radiation:rad-ab = 4 (default: 4)
• radiation:rad-ad = 512 (default: 512)
• radiation:rad-as = 32 (default: 32)
• radiation:rad-ar = 20 (default: 20)
• radiation:rad-aa = 0.15 (default: 0.15)
• radiation:rad-lr = 8 (default: 8)
• radiation:rad-st = 0.5 (default: 0.5)
• radiation:rad-sj = 0.7 (default: 0.7)
• radiation:rad-lw = 0.05 (default: 0.05)
• radiation:rad-dj = 0.7 (default: 0.7)
• radiation:rad-ds = 0.0 (default: 0.0)
• radiation:rad-dr = 0 (default: 0)
• radiation:rad-dp = 32 (default: 32)
• radiation:daysim-bin-directory = C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Daysim (default: C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst)
• radiation:n-buildings-in-chunk = 100 (default: 100)
• radiation:write-sensor-data = True (default: True) Using Daysim binaries from path: c:\users\domin\documents\cityenergyanalyst\dependencies\python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\bin\win32\bin64 Using Daysim data from path: c:\users\domin\documents\cityenergyanalyst\dependencies\python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\bin\win32\lib verifying geometry files zone: C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\building-geometry\zone.shp surroundings: C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\building-geometry\surroundings.shp Getting geometry materials Creating 3D geometry and surfaces Saving geometry pickle files in: C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpotdyj5\test_radiation_geometry_pickle Standardizing coordinate systems Reading terrain geometry Creating 3D building surfaces Calculating terrain intersection of building geometries Using 7 CPU's Calculation of terrain intersection for building 1 completed out of 2 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 2 completed out of 2 Using 7 CPU's Calculation of terrain intersection for building 1 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 2 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 3 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 4 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 5 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 6 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 7 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 8 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 9 completed out of 10 Calculation of terrain intersection for building 10 completed out of 10 Generating geometry for surrounding buildings Generating geometry for buildings in the zone of analysis Using 7 CPU's Generating geometry for building 1 completed out of 2Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\worker.py", line 146, in worker run_job(config, job, server) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\worker.py", line 108, in run_job script(config=config, parameters) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\api.py", line 60, in call self._runner.call(*args, *kwargs) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\api.py", line 38, in script_runner script_module.main(config) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\radiation_main.py", line 286, in main radiation_singleprocessing(cea_daysim, zone_building_names, locator, config.radiation, geometry_pickle_dir, File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\resources\radiation_daysim\radiation_main.py", line 62, in radiation_singleprocessing weatherfile = epwreader.epw_reader(weather_path) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\utilities\epwreader.py", line 39, in epw_reader epw_data = epw_to_dataframe(weather_path) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\cea\utilities\epwreader.py", line 34, in epw_to_dataframe df = pd.read_csv(weather_path, skiprows=8, header=None, names=epw_labels).drop('datasource', axis=1) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\util_decorators.py", line 211, in wrapper return func(args, kwargs) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\util_decorators.py", line 331, in wrapper return func(*args, kwargs) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 950, in read_csv return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 605, in _read parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, kwds) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 1442, in init self._engine = self._make_engine(f, self.engine) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\readers.py", line 1753, in _make_engine return mapping[engine](f, self.options) File "C:\Users\domin\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers\c_parser_wrapper.py", line 79, in init self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, kwds) File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 547, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.cinit File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 737, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 852, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows File "pandas_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1965, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 1258: invalid start byte

Generating geometry for building 2 completed out of 2 Creating radiance material file Creating radiance geometry file Converting files for DAYSIM Transforming weather files to daysim format Running command epw2wea "C:\Users\domin\Desktop\test\test\inputs\weather\weather.epw" "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpot_dyj5_\cea_radiation\common_inputs\weather_60min.wea" Transforming radiance files to daysim format Running command radfiles2daysim "C:\Users\domin\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpot_dyj5_\cea_radiation\common_inputs\rad2daysim.hea" -g -m -d

DEU_NW_Essen_104100_TRY2035_05_Wint_BBSR.zip

[ShiZhongming]

@lilseigo We suspect that it could be your files contain umlaut, (i.e. ä, ö, ü). Similar errors occurred in the team before because of Chinese characters.

[ShiZhongming]

@lilseigo We have just fixed this issue and updated the master branch. I have tested the weather file that you provided and it is working on the master branch. Are you using the CEA developer's version? If so, please just fetch the updated master. #3364