How to put epw file in ABL?

I’ve tried two methods:

connecting by entering the downloaded file path into the panel

connecting by converting a URL to an EPW file

However, I’ve encountered a warning message when connecting to the ABL component, stating that only numeric values representing the creation run should be connected.
Therefore, is there a way to extract the wind speed (Uref) and wind direction (wDir) values from the EPW file as numeric values?