The question is pretty straightforward: How do you make a thermal zone conditioned or unconditioned?
Do you mean conditioned with HVAC or uses energy at all? If you mean conditioned with HVAC then put a thermostat in it and EnergyPlus/Openstudio will try to condition it and therefore think it is conditioned.
Yes and the problem is when you're coding, There is this thermalZone.isConditioned() function that with or without a thermostat returns false for me. So I thought maybe it's not judging on the initialization of a thermostat so I wrote my own func to see if there is any thermostat there and it works okay. But you know I still wanna know what was the problem there
I would suggest editing the question to be more specific about what you really need to know and how you are using the simulation tool. I am afraid I am unable to help you further as that is a bit outside my knowledge field! I hope you find your answer.
You can see if if thermal_zone.thermostatSetpointDualSetpoint.is_initialized is true to see if there is a thermostat. You would have to dig further to see if that thermostat has valid setpoint schedules. isConditioned may relying on the having a sql file from already run simulation.
Okay thanks. the part "isConditioned may relying on the having a sql file from already run simulation." was what I needed to hear. (I was afraid if I'm missing something which now I now I'm not) so thanks a lot again
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