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== Changing from Cumulus 1 to MX ==
Remember, that depending on the operating system, MX may require you to install extra components, such as Mono, not included in distribution, see above for details.▼
=== Files to copy from Cumulus 1 into where you are installing MX ===
You may be installing MX on a different device to the Windows PC that Cumulus 1 ran on, in that case follow first alternative below. ▼
#If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter. There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the '''"StartDate="''' line in the [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|'[Station]']] section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, it will ignore any log files for earlier dates; whilst Cumulus 1
#See individual log file pages already referenced (access from [[:Category:Log Files|Log Files index page]]) where there is more information for how to edit your '''.ini''' files to work with MX.▼
=== Station connections ===
If you have been using the Cumulus 1 supplied web pages, you will find they do not work with MX, there is a new set provided with MX that work slightly differently. Cumulus 1 uploads a number of images, these include a couple of images that combined show the moon phase, and a number of graphs (used on Cumulus 1 trends page). Cumulus MX does not upload any images (prior to Release 3.5.0, from then on it uploads a moon phase image), instead it uploads a series of '''.json''' files that hold time and value pairs that can be used to draw graphs. The gauges page provided with MX is based on Mark's implementation of steel series, so it is different to the old "Web Dashboard Components for FreeWX and FreeWX-Wi " that Cumulus 1 used. The other web pages look the same, and indeed are effectively functionally same.
▲Remember, that depending on the operating system, MX may require you to install extra components, see above for details.
▲You may be installing MX on a different device to the Windows PC that Cumulus 1 ran on, in that case follow first alternative below.
▲#If you are installing MX on a PC that has been running Cumulus 1, then there are actually 2 alternatives to choose between:
▲##Just create a new directory (recommended name CumulusMX) and unzip the contents into it. Then copy over your existing data files and your [[Cumulus.ini]] file, and any other configuration files that you may have created (e.g. '''[[strings.ini]]''', twitter.txt etc). In this case you will need to edit that copied across "Cumulus.ini" so any lines that referenced the old folder are changed to reference the new folder, and you may need to edit a few other items either now, or via the settings functionality in MX user interface. The big advantage of this approach is that anytime you are not running MX you can go back to Cumulus 1 and let it run from where it left off (subject to availability of past data in your weather station).
▲## Alternatively, to run Cumulus MX with your existing Cumulus data, take a back up copy of your existing Cumulus directory, and then unzip Cumulus MX into the original Cumulus folder. This saves you from the need to edit any reference to folders, but stops you going back easily to Cumulus 1 if you have an issue.
▲#If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter. There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the "StartDate=" line in the [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|'[Station]']] section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, whilst Cumulus 1 just looks at all log files it finds in the data folder. There are several other differences, but you can address those later through the MX settings screens.
▲#See individual log file pages already referenced (access from [[:Category:Log Files|Log Files index page]]) where there is more information for how to edit your '''.ini''' files to work with MX.
== What I did to Install MX ==
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