Category:Cumulus MX: Difference between revisions

Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings. MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/console application which has no user interface. The separate user interface is provided by virtue of the engine acting as a web server. Once the engine is running, you can view the user interface by typing the URL of the built-in web server into your browser, either on the same machine, or on a separate machine sharing the same local network. The default URL if the browser is on the same machine as MX is http://localhost:8998/ - substitute the machine's IP address for 'localhost' if the browser is on a different machine. For security reasons, the user interface should not be accessible via the public internet.

 

 

Both Cumulus 1 and MX both use the same basic files: [[Cumulus.ini]], [[dayfile.txt]], [[today.ini]], [[month.ini]], [[year.ini]], [[alltime.ini]], [[monthlyalltime.ini]]. Look up the Log Files index page or the individual file pages just referenced to see the differences between file content, and what you ''may'' need to edit to use Cumulus 1 files with MX. Both Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX supply a number of ''templates that are processed into web pages'', although the end produce web pages are identical, '''the templates are not interchangeable'''. However, there are files that Cumulus 1 uses (fo example it uses several image files and a weather diary in a XML file) that are not used by MX and also many files that MX creates that were not part of Cumulus 1.