============== eppy3000viewer

viewer for E+ using eppy3000

Installation

Use a virtual environment to install and run. If you have not done this before, refer to this link on virtual environments <https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html>_

To install the libraries needed to run, do

::

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

At the command prompt type::

python runit.py

You will see::

Bottle v0.12.19 server starting up (using WSGIRefServer())...
Listening on http://localhost:8081/
Hit Ctrl-C to quit.

Go to a browser and load the URL http://localhost:8081/ or click on this link<http://localhost:8081/>_

Once you are on the web page, click on links and explore. It will be self explanatory

:Question: Where is the information on the web page coming from? :Response: The data in the IDD file (or rather the Energy+.schema.epJSON) is stored in a python native database called dbm. The web page is reading that database :Question: Can I do this for any version of the IDD ? :Response: Yes. You can. See below.

Putting any IDD in the dbm

Run the script create_dmb.py. From the script documentation:

Usage::

python create_dbm.py epJSON_filename dbmfilename

For eppy3000viewer to work dbmfilename should be schema

Will work only for E+ version >= 9.5:w