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This Wiki page has the title "MX administrative interface". That name is fully descriptive of the purpose of the functionality documented on this page. In subsequent references this is shortened to "admin interface".
Put simply this means the various pages you see in a browser that allow you to look at weather data and change settings.
When Steve Loft made his original cumulus software (legacy cumulus 1) available for others to use, it was natural for him to use "user interface" as a collective term for all the [[Cumulus_Screenshots|various screens]] that he included with that software.
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All settings are stored in [[Cumulus.ini]], so when you stop and restart MX, it can continue without you entering settings again. On that linked page, the settings are explained for each settings page, explaining which entry in the configuration file is affected.
Adjusting the majority of the settings is best done using these MX "admin interface" screens simply because for some settings the interface does validation (whilst editing the file directly could introduce invalid settings), you will see that '''Settings''' is the penultimate option in the navigation bar, and it has a drop down for the various settings screens that are now described. [[File:Settings Menu.png|right]]
If you attempt to set these settings by directly editing the file where they are stored, there is a danger of either making a typo or of choosing an illegal value for a particular attribute.
'''Note that if you change settings''', that '''some''' settings do not take effect while MX is running, while other settings do take effect instantly (The developer has not provided a list anywhere of which settings do, and which do not, take effect immediently, although sometimes a release notice mentions this for a new setting) - anyway, you ''may'' need to restart Cumulus MX to get the new setting picked up. When you exit MX, it saves the read-write settings in [[Cumulus.ini]], and when you restart it it uses the read-only, and read-write, settings it reads from that file.
# Now move down the screen and click the '''Save''' button, and wait for MX to pop up '''Settings Saved''' message.
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*6. ''Custom upload - seconds interval''
=== Alarms ===
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This is identical to Cumulus 1 functionality, apart from using a new default location for the files "\CumulusMX\interface\sounds", and the list of alarms available is extended in MX compared to Cumulus 1.
=== FTP Now ===
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[[File:Crystal Clear info.png|40px]] This section was last updated for the MX release in July 2020; that is no longer latest!
Appeal to contributors: Please work through all MX release announcements and work out all the many updates needed for this section,
recent releases have totally changed the content of all settings pages in the admin interface,
consequently, the whole page may even need either a replacement set of pages, splitting of this page into multiple pages, or just a redesign of this section, for more recent releases!
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This is similar to the option in the file menu of Cumulus 1 to do an update now. Depending on which build of MX you are using, the functionality varies. On latest build it does whatever updates are set up to happen at normal updating interval whether these are by FTP to your web site, or by copying files between local and remote filenames with path (although both could be on same device).
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