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MATLAB interface to our alternative implementation of OpenDSS, based on the DSS C-API library aiming for full COM compatibility on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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plotMonitor function issue (Sandia GridPV toolbox) #18

Closed yaosuo closed 5 months ago

yaosuo commented 5 months ago

Modifying the gridpv codes to resolve the issue ...

yaosuo commented 5 months ago

To work with Sandia's GridPV toolbox, some quick minor changes are needed: 1) need to comment out the OpenDSS version check; 2) need to bypass the checking for a valid interface input, otherwise, more changes are needed to make it work, e.g. ispc shall change to ismac, etc. With these change, OpenDSScmd, gridPV, dss_matlab can now run in mac-version Matlab.

yaosuo commented 5 months ago

done with my quick investigation

PMeira commented 5 months ago

Yeah, GridPV is kinda abandoned, it hasn't been updated in several years. Since it's distributed behind a form, I avoided hosting a modified/fixed copy. I should probably remove the mention the README. Thanks for the comments though, it could help someone else in the future.

On GridPV, some other functions won't work even with the official OpenDSS COM implementation on Windows, some due to changes in OpenDSS, some due to changes in MATLAB or outdated services (the map part). On the other hand, many parts still work fine.

OpenDSScmd

Note that, currently, even though OpenDSScmd is distributed in the same site as the official Windows binaries, the macOS version of OpenDSScmd is not officially supported by EPRI, and it has some known issues. DSS_MATLAB is based on a different codebase which includes a lot of extra fixes for macOS and Linux.

yaosuo commented 5 months ago

Do you mean dss_matlab has an implementation of KLUsolve and can work independently without opendsscmd, but follows the .dss conventions? That is a great thing!

PMeira commented 5 months ago

Do you mean dss_matlab has an implementation of KLUsolve and can work independently without opendsscmd, but follows the .dss conventions? That is a great thing!

Yes, in fact our KLUSolve fork also has changes, one of them specifically to allow it to work on MATLAB on Linux and macOS (MATLAB includes a copy of most SuiteSparse packages and that can conflict with other software if it's handled not properly).

PMeira commented 5 months ago

For context, KLUSolve is basically a wrapper around KLU: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/tree/dev/KLU