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=== Accessing Admin Interface === | === Accessing Admin Interface === | ||
Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings. MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/console application which has no user interface. The separate admin interface is provided by virtue of the engine acting as a web server. Once the engine is running, you can view the admin interface by typing the URL of the built-in web server into your browser, either on the same machine, or on a separate machine sharing the same local network. The default URL if the browser is on the same machine as MX is http://localhost:8998/ | Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings. MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/console application which has no user interface. The separate admin interface is provided by virtue of the engine acting as a web server. Once the engine is running, you can view the admin interface by typing the URL of the built-in web server into your browser, either on the same machine, or on a separate machine sharing the same local network. The default URL ''if the browser is on the same machine as MX'' is '''http://localhost:8998/'''. | ||
If you are using the browser on a different device on your local network to the device running MX, you cannot use '''local host'''. Instead you specify a IPv4 address, that is listed in your '''router''' (might be called a '''hub''') for the device running MX, this IPv4 address will look like '192.168.y.z' (where y and z are numbers that vary between implementations). | |||
Equally, if "localhost" is already in use for another web server (that you already run on your device), you will need to use the correct IPv4 address as above, even on the same device. | |||
'''For security reasons, the admin interface should not be accessible via the public internet.''' | |||
=== Operating Systems === | === Operating Systems === | ||