Cumulus 3 (MX) beta documentation: Difference between revisions

Almost all of the [[Webtags|web tags for all Cumulus flavours on this Wiki page]] that you could use in Cumulus 1 are also supported in Cumulus MX.

 

 

 

== All builds of MX ==

 

 

Note that this difference in date/time modifiers also affects how you specify the '''NOAA report''' file names. For example in Cumulus 1 you can specify a 2 digit month number by either 'mm' or 'MM', but MX (later versions) has to change the former to the latter as MX uses 'mm' for minutes. The same applies to using 'mmm' or 'MMM' for 3 letter month abbreviation in Cumulus 1, only the latter works in MX, so MX (later versions) will adjust that. If you are using an older MX version, you should upgrade to latest as you are missing a lot of functionality, but while you use that old version, ensure that your file names for NOAA reports do use the correct modifiers for MX.

== Replacing Cumulus 1 ==

 

 

The package contains several extra .dll files, and everything else you need, to continue to read from your weather station, to load up the [[MX Administrative Interface|admin interface]] on a Cumulus generated web server (there are some settings you will need to change using that interface), and some simple web template examples (that replace the standard Cumulus 1 example templates). You might want to read topics on the MX support forum to discover about other people's experiences.

# Start '''Admin Interface''', it runs in a browser, by default on port 8998, see [[#User_Interface|section]] below.

 

 

If you are running MX for the first time, without a configuration file (none is included in download package), see [[Cumulus.ini#Cumulus_MX|here]] for screen shots showing what you see as the engine starts running, and what you see in the admin interface where you set your weather station type. In that link there are more instructions.