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Now newcomers should probably choose Cumulus MX, but read on if you are not sure. | Now newcomers should probably choose Cumulus MX, but read on if you are not sure. | ||
Cumulus 1 is a finished version, with very few bugs, but because the development environment is obsolete no further changes are possible. Cumulus 1 is reliable, it has | Cumulus 1 is a finished version, with very few bugs, but because the development environment is obsolete no further changes are possible. That said there have been two recent patches to the screen interface, allowing dates from 2021 to 2030 to be selected in drop downs, but the core code will never change. Although there remains some expertise with Cumulus 1 established users, any newcomer may prefer to choose a MX as that has more technical support available. Cumulus 1 is reliable, it has in-built functionality to cope with problems if your weather station set-up experiences problems. However, you may not be able to use this (legacy) Cumulus software: | ||
# | #If you use one of the new weather station models, as the legacy Cumulus does not support these (you would need to find a way to make your station output to a format it does understand) | ||
#it will only run on a Microsoft Windows device | #If you want to upload to a web server using a secure file transfer protocol, as the legacy Cumulus does not support SFTP or FTPS directly (you can get it to run external scripts) | ||
#If you want to run Cumulus on a Linux computer, the legacy Cumulus will only run on a Microsoft Windows device | |||
Cumulus 2 explored an improved data approach using UTC and having better handling of rainfall. Although it was hoped it would make enhancement easier, and allow use of alternative languages possible, it proved too complicated. and has been abandoned and is no longer available, so if you don't already have it hard luck. Subsequently, some of the developments in Cumulus 2 were ported into new version 1.9.0, and remain in final Cumulus 1.9.4 from where they were in turn ported to Cumulus | Cumulus 2 explored an improved data approach using UTC and having better handling of rainfall. Although it was hoped it would make enhancement easier, and allow use of alternative languages possible, it proved too complicated. and has been abandoned and is no longer available, so (if you don't already have it) hard luck. Subsequently, some of the developments in Cumulus 2 were ported into new version 1.9.0, and remain in final Cumulus 1.9.4 from where they were in turn ported to Cumulus 3. Also having learnt lessons from the failure of Cumulus 2, Cumulus 3 has gone back to the rainfall counter method of deducing all rainfall reported, and has adopted local time (not UTC) for logging data. So whichever of the two versions still available you choose, you are benefiting from work done for Cumulus 2. | ||
Cumulus 3 was released by Steve Loft as MX beta. It is using a different architecture (partly inspired by Cumulus 2). The MX beta (version 3.0.0) lacked much of the functionality in the legacy Cumulus, consequently it was only suitable for very reliable weather stations, and people who did not need editing functionality. | Cumulus 3 was released by Steve Loft as MX beta. It is using a different architecture (partly inspired by Cumulus 2). The MX beta (version 3.0.0) lacked much of the functionality in the legacy Cumulus, consequently it was only suitable for very reliable weather stations, and people who did not need editing functionality. | ||
The development of Cumulus MX, by Mark Crossley, has completely transformed the product (see below). Somebody who uses the new features in MX needs to produce a functionality guide for MX that provides similar information to that appearing here for the legacy software. | |||
=Cumulus MX= | =Cumulus MX= | ||
