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Getting Started

Honeybee-PH is a free plugin for Ladybug Tools that adds Passive House data to Honeybee energy models. Both Passive House Institute (PHI) and Passive House Institute US (Phius) model data are supported.

This plugin is not affiliated with or created by PHI or Phius.

Prerequisites

Honeybee-PH extends the Ladybug Tools ecosystem. You will need:

Ladybug Tools v1.9 or higher
Rhino 3D + Grasshopper (for the visual scripting workflow)
honeybee-grasshopper-ph (Grasshopper components)

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install honeybee-ph

For Grasshopper usage, install via the Ladybug Tools plugin manager or follow the honeybee-grasshopper-ph instructions.

Typical Workflow

graph LR A[Rhino / Grasshopper] -->|honeybee-grasshopper-ph| B[Honeybee-PH Model] B -->|PHX| C[WUFI-Passive XML] B -->|PHX| D[PHPP Excel] B -->|PH-Navigator| E[Web Viewer]

Model your building geometry in Rhino and assign Passive House attributes using the Grasshopper components.
Export the Honeybee-PH model (HBJSON) to PHPP or WUFI-Passive using PHX.
Review your model in the browser with PH-Navigator.

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