Installation instructions

This demo requires

1. Pandas
2. requests
3. pvlib (kahemker fork)
4. siphon (kahemker fork)
5. netCDF4
6. cftime == 1.0.4 (there is a bug in pvlib with the newest version of cftime)

You can install most of these packages with Anaconda using the environment.yml file

conda env create -f environment.yml

Activate your new environment: conda activate daedalus

Verify the environment was installed correctly: conda env list

Custom forks of two packages after you install the above first

pip install -e git+https://github.com/kahemker/siphon.git@ssl-catalog#egg=siphon
pip install -e git+https://github.com/kahemker/pvlib-python.git@dev#egg=pvlib

These forks allow you to pass additional arguments into the pvlib-forecast models that allow your HTTP GET requests to the meteorological servers to pass through my company's proxy.

Run the proxy_test.py file. You should see one user warning because the PVLIB forecast module is under development and insecure SSL warnings. The process should finish successfully with exit code 0.