v0.4.4

Major bugfix - previously there was an uncaught problem with a mismatch between the trackerdict index and the MetObj index, leading to mismatch between irradiance values and tracker angles.

What's Changed

• Add checks for RAYPATH properly being installed. Fixes #525 by @cdeline in #537
• Suppress hub-height warnings when both clearance_height and hub_heigh… by @cdeline in #540
• Improve repr printing of MetObj and RadianceObj. by @cdeline in #544
• Add glassEdge parameter in modules so that the glass extends beyond the cell size. by @shirubana in #545
• Fixed a bug in how the metadata is indexed in gendaylit1axis. fixes #441. by @cdeline in #550
• change load.py to include more module inputs by @cdeline in #551
• Fix leap day bug in readWeatherFile. fixes #552. by @cdeline in #553
• Add deprecation warnings on soon to be removed functions. by @cdeline in #561
• Fix load.cleanResult to work with files created with different sensorsy by @cdeline in #562
• Improved error messages, documentation and test coverage by @cdeline in #563
• V0 4 4 final checks by @cdeline in #565

Full Changelog: 0.4.3...0.4.4

v0.5.0.dev0

Development release to test multi-object and performance updates.

What's Changed

• 405 multiple analysis objs by @cdeline in #408
• 405 multiple analysis objs #2 by @cdeline in #409
• 421 make image by @cdeline in #422
• 405 multiple analysis objs by @shirubana in #429
• Add 'columns' and 'methods' introspection to RadObj, MetObj and GrounObj by @cdeline in #495
• 460 multiple results by @cdeline in #486
• AgriPV Groundscans by @shirubana in #497
• Results refactor by @cdeline in #504
• Multi scene objs by @cdeline in #487
• Refactored code to include functions for ground analysis by @sofiatoropovaa in #499
• Refactor NSRDBWeatherData into readWeatherData by @cdeline in #496
• change how timestamps are created in _saveTempTMY. Fixes #515. by @cdeline in #517
• Add checks for RAYPATH. Fixes #525 by @cdeline in #537
• Suppress hub-height warnings when both clearance_height and hub_heigh… by @cdeline in #540
• bump to pandas 1.4.4 and numba 0.58.1 in requirements.txt by @cdeline in #542
• Create descriptive repr for MetObj and RadianceObj. Fixes #471 by @cdeline in #544
• Modify how CEC performance data is saved. Issue 512 by @cdeline in #543
• Silvana issues fixing by @shirubana in #545
• fixes #441. Changed how the metadata is indexed in gendaylit1axis - … by @cdeline in #550
• 438 inifile change load.py to include more module inputs by @cdeline in #551
• Fix leap day bug in readWeatherFile. fixes #552. by @cdeline in #553
• Fix incorrect saving of rearX and rearY when sensorsY is an array. Fixes 501 by @cdeline in #558
• Add deprecation warnings fixes 556 by @cdeline in #561
• Add deprecation warnings fixes 556 by @cdeline in #560
• Fix load.cleanResult to work with files created with different sensorsy by @cdeline in #562
• Changes made to get spectral example notebook to work by @mjprilliman in #554

New Contributors

• @sofiatoropovaa made their first contribution in #499

Full Changelog: 0.4.3...v0.5.0-dev1

v0.4.3

Bug fix and minor release

What's Changed

• mad fn update by @cdeline in #485
• Addition of Artificial Reflectors Tutorial by @mandylewis in #475
• Update jupyter notebooks based on latest main branch by @mjprilliman in #514
• bugfix by @cdeline in #522
• Fix mismatch fit3, add mismatch fit2 by @echedey-ls in #520
• Enclose file names used for radfiles in quotes. Fixes #523. by @cdeline in #527
• deprecation warnings by @cdeline in #528
• Enable coerce_year=None. Fixes #526 by @cdeline in #529
• Fix deprecations by @cdeline in #530
• pass a copy of sceneDict to _makeSceneNxR. fixes #502. by @cdeline in #503
• add pyRadiance to setup.py install_requires to help with RADIANCE install issues. by @cdeline in #532
• files saved to \results\ with 3 decimal floats. by @cdeline in #534

New Contributors

• @mandylewis made their first contribution in #475
• @mjprilliman made their first contribution in #514
• @echedey-ls made their first contribution in #520

Full Changelog: 0.4.2...0.4.3

v0.4.2

Bug fix and minor release, returning ModuleObj.text functionality. New functions ModuleObj.saveImage and SceneObj.saveImage automatically save a picture to /images/. This is done by default by the gui, and is controlled in modelchain by simulationParamsDict['saveImage'] = True.

Python 3.7 support is dropped (it should still work though). Example notebook gallery updates in readthedocs.

v0.4.1

Minor bug fix update, fixing some GUI startup issues and assorted minor errors from the 0.4.0 release.

Requirements.txt has been updated. Python 3.10 support added and Python 3.6 support dropped (it should still work though).

v0.4.0-dev3

Bug-fix development release, fixing GUI startup issues.

v0.4.0-dev1

Release of development branch to test DOCKER for AWS.

v 0.4.0 official release

This is a major release which includes new spectral property class, object-oriented ModuleObj class and other improvements for more seamless use with dask and paralellization.

Major usage changes include a ModuleObj output from makeModule, allowing updating geometry and adding module features (adding a torque tube with .addTorquetube, frame members using .addFrame, etc ). This release also changes start and end time format to ‘YYYY-MM-DD_HHMM’ enabling multi-year and sub-hourly met file support.

See what's new at bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io.

v 0.3.4 official release

This is a major release allowing time-series albedo to be passed into setGround(). Weather data that is left-labeled (SAM, PVSYST) or center-labeled (NSRDB) can now be specified in readWeatherFile(). Support for Python 2.7 is now removed.

See what's new at bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io.

v 0.3.3.2 official release

This release fixes several bugs, adds glass materials and more scan flexibility. Documentation, examples and testing are greatly updated.
Read the changes at bifacial-radiance.readthedocs.io.