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(consult also the Help screens within Cumulus software, and learn more from the rest of this Wiki)
A separate FAQ was created specifically for [[Cumulus MX FAQ
= Installing and Running Cumulus =
== What operating systems does Cumulus run on? ==
Cumulus 1 - All versions of Windows from XP to Windows
{{Version badge 1}}Reminder, this FAQ answer is ONLY for Cumulus 1
*Davis Vantage Pro (VP), Vantage Pro2 (VP2), and Vue (the Envoy8X and Weatherlink Live is '''not''' supported).
*Oregon Scientific WM918, WMR918, WMR928, WMR968, WMR88 (see [[FAQ#How do I set up recording wind speeds in Cumulus, with Oregon Scientific and La Crosse stations | this FAQ]]), WMR100, WMR180, WMR200.
*Fine Offset - USB-connected stations which use the Easyweather software such as MyDEL, Nevada, Watson and Fine Offset, with model numbers such as WH1080, WH1081, W8681, 265NC etc.
== I’ve just installed Cumulus, and it didn’t download all the old data from my weather station ==
''Cumulus deliberately doesn’t attempt to download any data from before the point when you first run it.
{{Version badge 1}} If you wish, although this isn't recommended:
# Ensure you have run Cumulus at least once, then stop Cumulus
# Edit [[today.ini]] (in the data folder), look for the ‘Timestamp’ line, then carefully sticking to exactly the same format as is currently in the file, change the date and time to your earliest available data in your weather station logger (or just before if you don't know exact time)
# Optionally, if you have '''only just started''' using Cumulus, so you have nothing useful to lose, you could delete all of the ''other'' files in the data folder, and delete all lines in the "today.ini" other than those shown in the extract below (with dates modified appropriately).
# Now restart Cumulus
#* if you did step 3, processing will start again with just the data from the station's logger.
# Note that if you do this, it is at your own risk, and you will need to sort out any issues which may arise yourself.
▲If you do this, you will probably need to edit your log files in the '''data''' folder as you may have duplicate entries and/or entries out of order. Your rain totals will almost certainly also be wrong - the total for "today" in particular. See the [[FAQ#My_station_invented_some_rain_that_didn.27t_really_occur.2C_and_I_want_to_set_it_to_zero_.28or_some_other_figure.29 |FAQ]] entry about correcting rainfall data. If you have only just started using Cumulus, you could delete all of the files in the data folder, and just create a simple today.ini as below. Then when you start Cumulus, processing will start again with just the data from the station's logger.
<pre>
[General]
CurrentDay=10
</pre>
Note that this method does not work for the Oregon WMR200 station types because this station deletes logger entries when they are downloaded, and there is no mechanism for retrieving logger entries for a particular period - it just sends all the entries that it has. You may be able to circumvent this by missing out step 1 above, and before you run Cumulus 1 for the first time, creating a [[today.ini]] file in the [[data folder]], with just the items shown above in the file. Change the dates and time to match the point from which you want Cumulus to start downloading data. If the station has already sent the data, this may not work, unfortunately.
If you stored data from your weather station (on another file-based system) before you first ran Cumulus, then you may be able to (using a text editor outside Cumulus) generate [[
== I have inserted pre-Cumulus data and now I get errors ==
Probably some of your inserts used the wrong format (blank rows, fields with real numbers where integers expected, alternatively missing or duplicated fields). See [[:Category:
== I have inserted pre-Cumulus data making ''''Records began on' this_date''' wrong ==
**Change the "StartDate=" line so the value for that property has the date you want. Be sure to use the same format for the date.
Like most FAQ on this page, this was written for Cumulus 1, please be aware that MX works differently, and so this does not apply!
== Cumulus doesn’t show the same pressure as my Fine Offset console ==
You can over-ride the start up check by adding a line to the [Station] section of [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)#Section:_Station|cumulus.ini]], thus: ''NoSensorCheck=1''
(You need to do this while Cumulus is stopped). Note that you are likely to get bad data logged if you do this.
'''NOTE: In Cumulus MX, you can now set the No Sensor Check value from the GUI. See... Station Settings | Common Options'''
== I've changed my Twitter password, and now Cumulus won't update Twitter ==
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