Category:Cumulus MX: Difference between revisions

Cumulus MX initiates a web server, to do this it may need administrative access, consequently to avoid having to run itMX as an administrator you can issue a command that allows all users to bind to port 8998 which is the web server it initiates (this is used for the Cumulus MX user interface). Note that if you plan to change the interface port asby describedusing belowthe port parameter in your launch of MX, you should change the 8998 to whatever port you are planning on using. To enter the command, first open a command window as administrator. One way to do this is to right click the windows symbol at the start of the windows task bar. The option to choose there (on windows 10) is '''Windows PowerShell (admin)''', but an option called '''Command Prompt (Administrator)''' will also work. Once that opens a new window type:

You only need to do that once. After than you can initiate MX from any user, you don't need to run as administrator.

#'''Each time you want to run Cumulus:'''

#*OpenFirst start the folderengine wherein youone installed MX and click onof the CumulusMX.exefollowing to3 run it.ways (Therethere are some optional parameters that can be used with the .exe call as mentioned earlier):

# StartNext start the user interface, it does not need to run all the time, but only when you need it (when you first use MX you will need it to access the settings where you tell MX what type of station you have and what units you want to use, and set various timing options), it normally runs on port 8998 (to vary that there is a '''-port''' parameter that is followed by required port and that port parameter has to be entered every time you start MX if you are not using the default port).