Generating the HTML file

To generate an html input file, your IDF file has to have the objects that will generate the HTML file. Add these two objects to your IDF file, and it will generate the HTML file.

Output:Table:SummaryReports,
    AllSummary;              !- Report 1 Name
OutputControl:Table:Style,
    HTML,                    !- Column Separator
    None;                    !- Unit Conversion

Reading Energyplus outputs thru eppy or python.

• Eppy has functions to read the HTML file. It is documented here
• EnergyPlus will also generate csv files
  • python has an excellent package called csv, that you can call by import csv. Google python csv to learn more.
  • Pandas http://pandas.pydata.org is a much more high powered package you can use to read csv files.
  • To visualize the data use https://matplotlib.org/ or https://d3js.org/

if you are using eppy to generate the csv files you have to do

idf.run(readvars=True)

Note: some of the earlier version of EnergyPlus will not run with readvars=True. It will run on EnergyPlus-8-9-0