Installation

Before you can use frads, you need to install it.

Install Python

Being a Python based library, you'll need to install Python first. Python version 3.8 or newer is required for frads.

Get the latest version of Python at https://www.python.org/downloads/ or with your operating system’s package manager.

You can verify that Python is installed by typing python from your cmd/powershell/terminal; you should see something like:

$ python
Python 3.X.X
[GCC 4.x] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

After you have Python installed, you should have pip command available in your shell environment as well. You can then use pip to install frads:

Install pyenergyplus

frads relies on pyenergyplus for running and interacting with EnergyPlus in Python. pyenergyplus (unofficial) can be installed by running

$ pip install git+https://github.com/taoning/pyenergyplus_wheels

Install frads

After you have pyenergyplus installed, you can then use pip to install frads:

$ python -m pip install frads

Verifying

To verify that frads can be seen by Python, type python from your shell. Then at the Python prompt, try to import frads

>>> import frads
>>> print(frads.__version__)
1.0.0