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 = [[Cumulus MX FAQ]] =
-The [[FAQ]] page that was originally written for Cumulus 1 has now had some MX differences highlighted.
+The [[FAQ]] page that was originally written for Cumulus 1 has now had some MX differences highlighted. A new FAQ for MX has been started at [[Cumulus_MX_FAQ|another page]].
-MX specific questions, such as those related to installation are now covered by the updated text above.
+MX specific questions, such as those related to installation are now covered by the updated text on this "Cumulus MX" page.
-There is a third party offering for helping you start and stop Cumulus MX  [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13767 on a Raspberry Pi]. There are two other related threads initiated by same author (Jank).
-One problem various people have had is swapping from a Windows environment to a Linux environment. There are lots of new commands to learn, and specifying the interface is different so getting MX to connect to your weather station has been a problem for some.
-For setting up your web site see [[website_setup|this page first]].
-There is no guide yet to the MX setting pages. Generally any edit you make to a setting takes effect as soon as you move to next setting, but some only take effect when you next restart Cumulus MX.  Most settings have a friendlier interface than the settings for the similar feature in Cumulus 1.
-Cumulus MX supports updating to secure web sites, this feature is not yet properly documented.
-The use of decimal comma gives rise to various problems mentioned in the forum, as the guidance above says Cumulus MX uses procedures that depend on full stops being used for the decimal point in many log files.
-There is confusion between Cumulus 1 symbols for minutes (nn) and the Cumulus MX symbol for minutes (mm) which Cumulus 1 uses to represent months (mm or MM allowed). This is seen in NOAA report names and any web tags that have had a date-time modifier added.
-On Cumulus 1, some people used '.' to separate the hours and minutes (HH.nn), this causes problems in MX that only accepts a colon separator (HH:mm). Thus files like the alltime.ini might have a mix of times in different formats.
-Another issue raised from time to time in the forum is that if you swap from Cumulus 1 to MX it does not access the old NOAA reports (because the settings in MX were not set to generate same file naming as previously used in Cumulus 1).
-Certain versions of Mono give problems, for example the Mono version 5 release has thrown up an issue with some locales and the short month names having an extra decimal point that Cumulus MX cannot cope with. Most of these problems are raised in the forum.
 = [[MX Issues|Cumulus MX Known Issues]] =
 See [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12943#p101209 Steve Loft's post]