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 = User Interface =
-Type the URL which is displayed (when MX starts running) into your browser (replace the * with the IP address, or use 'localhost') and the interface should appear. If this is a 'clean' installation, the first thing you will need to do is to go to the '''settings''' and set the station type and units, and any other configuration settings you want to make. Having set the station type, you will need stop Cumulus MX and start it again. Note that this also applies to '''some''' other settings - you ''may'' need to restart Cumulus MX to get the new setting picked up.
+#Type the URL which is displayed (when MX starts running) into your browser (replace the * with the IP address, or use 'localhost') and the interface should appear. If this is a 'clean' installation, the first thing you will need to do is to go to the '''settings''' screen.
+#When that page is displayed it always shows the options to set the station type and units.
+#Before you leave this page, you can make any other configuration settings by picking a section and clicking it to show the selections within that section.
+#Now go to bottom of this page and click the 'Save' button.
-As with Cumulus 1, if there are any settings which are not currently available via the user interface, you can change them by stopping Cumulus and editing [[Cumulus.ini]]. Follow that link to see what you can add in that file, and (if you are swapping from Cumulus 1 to MX) how that file varies between Cumulus flavours.
+Having set the station type, and other settings, you will need stop Cumulus MX and start it again.
 == Changing Settings ==
 This is done using the MX "user interface", 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.
-Most settings are '''best made using these screens''' rather than in the file that stores them, as each setting screen uses tick boxes, radio buttons, and drop down selection boxes, wherever possible, so the choices available are clearly laid out. There are however some settings that can not be found in any of the setting screens, for these you need to edit the [[Cumulus.ini]] file directly, and the referenced Wiki page gives details of which settings can only be adjusted by adding parameters in the file, and tells you what values are accepted for those attributes.
+Most settings are '''best made using these screens''' rather than in the file that stores them, as each setting screen uses tick boxes, radio buttons, and drop down selection boxes, wherever possible, so the choices available are clearly laid out. There are however some settings that can not be found in any of the setting screens, for these you need to edit the [[Cumulus.ini]] file directly, and the referenced Wiki page gives details of which settings can only be adjusted by adding parameters in the file, and tells you what values are accepted for those attributes, and also explains some of the differences in the settings available between Cumulus 1 and MX.
+Note that if you change settings, that '''some''' settings do not take effect while MX is running, while other settings do take effect instantly - anyway, you ''may'' need to restart Cumulus MX to get the new setting picked up. When you exit MX, it saves the settings in [[Cumulus.ini]], and when you restart it it uses the settings it reads from that file.
 === Station Settings ===