nopywer-qgis-plugin a QGIS plugin to use nopywer directly inside QGIS

installation

• Open QGIS.

• Add nopywer plugin repositoey to QGIS Plugin Manager: Go to: Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins... > Settings > "Plugin Repositories" > Add...

  • Choose a name (e.g., "Nopywer Release Repo").
  • For the URL, paste this exact link: https://github.com/vfinel/nopywer_qgis_plugin/releases/latest/download/plugins.xml
    • /!\ make sure to remove the http:// prefix already written, you need https:// instead
    • if you see the message Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate: The issuer certificate of a locally looked up certificate could not be found you can click Ignore

• Go to: Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins... > All

  • search for nopywer plugin
  • install it

  Note that the installation can take some time (about 1 minute), and multiple command windows may open. Do not attempt to interact with QGIS during the installaton.

usage

Once the installation is complete, you are ready to use nopywer! You can click on the nopywer plugin icon

You can also open the plugin by going on Plugins > nopywer.

prepare your layers

Make sure that your layers have the following properties:

• each features of nodes layers must have the following attributes:
  • name: a string describing the name of the load
  • power: power usage of this node (it can be 0 if the node is not using power. Units can be in watts, kilowatts, or megawatts)
  • phase: the phase this node should draw power from ("1", "2", "3", or any combinaison of those: "1,2,3" to split equally on 3-phases, "1,2" to split on 2-phases, etc.)

run analysis

• open the plugin
• select your layers (nodes layer(s) and cable layer(s))
• click Run analysis

see nopywer logs

Logs are visible in two places:

• Log Messages Panel: Go to View -> Panels -> Log Messages (or click the speech bubble in the bottom right corner of QGIS) and select the "Nopywer" tab.
• QGIS Python Console: Go to Plugins -> Python console (or Ctrl + Alt + P)

This will show you exactly what nopywer is calculating, any warnings it generates, and the final result.

update the plugin

• Go to Plugins > Manage and install plugins...
• Go to the Installed tab
• Search for nopywer
• Click upgrade