Add an option to change HeatBalanceAlgorithm property in idf

[JunfXiao]

Hi,

recently I tried to do the combined heat and moisture transfer simulation with honeybee and energyplus. This needs to change the default Algorithm in the idf file from

HeatBalanceAlgorithm,
  ConductionTransferFunction,
  200;    

to

 HeatBalanceAlgorithm,
  CombinedHeatAndMoistureFiniteElement,    !- changed here
  200;

I searched the python code in the repo but find no code related.

Could you please help to find out where this property is written in the code or a proper way to customize this?

Thanks!

[chriswmackey]

Hi @JunfXiao ,

Sorry for the late response. This is one of the many EnergyPlus inputs that we have not (yet) exposed in honeybee-energy. You can always change this property with an OpenStudio measure that you include in your honeybee-energy simulation but I understand that it would be nice to change it with SimulationParameters.

We'll get to it eventually but it may be a low priority unless several other people thumbs up the issue or post here that it would make their lives a lot easier.