Availability Schedule for DaylightingControl

[lymereJ]

Enhancement Request

Add an availability schedule field for the DaylightingControl object.

Detailed Description

The DaylightingControl object in OpenStudio doesn't appear to have an availability schedule field, but the EnergyPlus object does. An example for this field would be to turn off daylighting controls during sizing period/design day simulations. While this can be done using an EnergyPlus measures, it would be really useful to implement it when measures are not an option (e.g. openstudio-standards).

[joseph-robertson]

Should setters/getters for daylighting controls availability schedule be attached to DaylightingControl or to ThermalZone?

If they were attached to DaylightingControl, there would be separate primary and secondary availability schedules. What would the logic be for forward translating these into a single availability schedule on DaylightingControls in EnergyPlus?

If they were attached to ThermalZone, they'd apply to both the primary and secondary daylighting controls. What do we call the setters/getters? Something like daylightingControlsAvailabilitySchedule, setDaylightingControlsAvailabilitySchedule, etc?

[lymereJ]

Great questions! I feel like having them attached to DaylightingControl is the most logical approach, however, I'm not sure what strategy should be implemented in the forward translator. EnergyPlus only uses one availability schedule per Daylighting:Controls object, I doubt that multiple of these objects can be assigned to a same zone. So perhaps ThermalZone is a better choice. The setter/getter you propose seem good.