Installation guide for Windows

Follow these instructions to install the CityEnergyAnalyst (CEA) on a Windows system (tested with Windows 10).

  1. Download the latest version of CEA in here.

  2. Open the installer and follow the instructions

Note

For installing the development version of CEA, tick the box “development version” during the installation.

Note

For previous releases check here.

Note

To install from the source check Installation guide on Windows for developers

Interfaces

There are different ways in which you can interact with the code of CEA.

  1. The command line interface: This is the command line to all the commands of CEA from your computer terminal

  2. The dashboard: This a web-based interface to CEA, open source and developed by the CEA team.

  3. The pycharm interface: this interface provides access to all the source code of CEA.

The command line interface and dashboard interface are included during the installation of CEA. Other interfaces require a few additional steps to get them up and running.

Pycharm

In order to access and work on the source code of CEA from pycharm do:

  1. Make sure to have installed the development version of CEA (see step 2 of the installation guide).

  2. Download and install Github Desktop (64-bit).

  3. Download and install Pycharm Community edition (64-bit)

  4. Open PyCharm from the start menu and open project CityEnergyAnalyst (default location is C:\Users\<you>\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\CityEnergyAnalyst).

  5. Open File>Settings>Project:CityEnergyAnalyst>Project Interpreter>Project Interpreter.

  6. Click on the settings button (it looks like a wheel) next to the current interpreter path, and click Add.

  7. Click System Interpreter from the left hand list and select existing environment.

  8. Point to C:\Users\<you>\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\python.exe

  9. Click apply changes.

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