# I have a question in daylighting simulation of Honeybee

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/i-have-a-question-in-daylighting-simulation-of-honeybee/213539>\
**Category:** Grasshopper\
**Tags:** honeybee\
**Created:** [December 11, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/i-have-a-question-in-daylighting-simulation-of-honeybee/213539 "2025-12-11T16:36:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freeze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/freeze/32/715906_2.png) [@Freeze](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Freeze)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/i-have-a-question-in-daylighting-simulation-of-honeybee/213539/1 "2025-12-11T16:36:17Z")

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Is there something wrong with my connection?My folder seems like no problems.

 ![9bd8a081-7ec9-4358-a4f4-c85aa4e993cd](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/1/5/9/15949ad95cf1208c15cf728aff89ddfe62113d5d.png)

 ![e0ce09d2-b865-48f7-a533-db905101ae77](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/4X/2/0/8/2087444b21deae54d60fbb5ddbc01b84a02e0295.png)

1. Solution exception:  
The recipe failed to run with the following error(s):

2025-12-12 00:12:21 ERROR: “CreateRadFolder” failed. See below for more information:  
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘gbk’ codec can’t decode byte 0xae in position 44: illegal multibyte sequence

Execution Summary  
Scheduled 12 tasks of which:

- 2 ran successfully:
  - 1 AdjustSky(…)
  - 1 GenerateSky(…)

- 1 failed:
  - 1 CreateRadFolder(…)

- 9 were left pending, among these:
  - 1 were missing external dependencies:
    - 1 PrepareFolderPointInTimeGrid(…)

  - 3 had failed dependencies:
    - 1 CreateOctree(…)
    - 1 SplitGridFolder(…)
    - 1 \_PointInTimeGridPrepareFolder\_266428f6Orchestrator(…)

  - 4 had missing dependencies:
    - 1 LetPointInTimeGridFly(…)
    - 1 PointInTimeGridRayTracing(…)
    - 1 PostProcessPointInTimeGrid(…)
    - 1 \_Main\_266428f6Orchestrator(…)

  - 1 was not granted run permission by the scheduler:
    - 1 PrepareFolderPointInTimeGrid(…)

This progress looks ☹ because there were failed tasks

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**Author:** ![wim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/wim/32/747482_2.png) [@wim](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/wim)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/i-have-a-question-in-daylighting-simulation-of-honeybee/213539/2 "2025-12-11T20:10:40Z")

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Hi Freeze -

> [@Freeze](#):
>
> Is there something wrong with my connection?

Please see [https://discourse.ladybug.tools/](https://discourse.ladybug.tools/) for questions related to the Ladybug Tools.  
-wim