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#*This is discussed in the help and can be left blank for most people.
Now we need to select the FTP settings:
#In this 'frame' first click on ''Auto Update''
#The illustration (in Cumulus 1 interface on left below) shows ''Use active FTP mode'' un-selected as Cumulus '''Help''' suggests. In active mode, Cumulus is listening for an incoming data connection from the server; in passive mode, Cumulus asks the server if it can establish a connection.
▲#In this 'frame' first click on ''Auto Update'' (so that it is ticked with recent versions of Windows); this tells Cumulus you want it to automatically process the templates and generate web pages.
#The illustration (Cumulus 1 interface) shows ''Use
#Leave ''Delete before upload'' un-selected.
#*You may need to experiment with changing these last 3 selections, which works best depends on your web server.
#Leave ''UTF-8 encode'' selected (all standard Cumulus web pages use this encoding). This selection is shown in both Cumulus 1.x.y and Cumulus MX illustrations below with red arrow.
#Now look at ''Interval'', this is how often Cumulus will update your website.
#*It has been set in both illustrated
[[File:Web_settings.JPG | Left]](Left hand picture is Cumulus 1.x.y interface, right hand picture is Cumulus MX settings screen)[[File:Cumulus MX realtime settings.png |Right]]
#As part of the Standard set-up you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data. The blue
##There are now three 'Enable...' boxes for Realtime;
##* if you want Cumulus to upload the realtime.txt file for the 'Flash' gauges on the standard Cumulus 1 gauges page, you need to '''tick all three boxes'''. In reality, the standard cumulus 1 web templates used in this Simple setup only include two ‘realtime’ elements to show wind speed and direction on the gauges page.
##*For Cumulus MX, the steel series gauges page provided requires all 3 boxes to be selected as shown in the right hand illustration.
##*If you are running Cumulus 1.x.y and do not wish to provide realtime data untick the 3 “Enable Realtime” boxes, and comment out the last two graphics on the 'gaugesT.htm' template.
##The next selection is the time Cumulus will wait after sending a burst of real-time information until it re-starts for producing another burst of real-time information.
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