User contributions to Cumulus

Introduction

Over the years that Cumulus has been available, its users have thought up lots of extra ways to make use of the weather information it derives. This article is intended to provide a single place from where you can find the links to all those shared files and add-ons that can enhance your usage of Cumulus.

Tthe following links will take you to other wiki pages, external web sites or forum threads, where you can read about and download the item.

Any Wiki pages that include "Category:User_Contributions" (using the linked chain symbol in the bar at the top of each editing page), appear in the indexed links at the bottom of this page. Some of these are explained in the next section which also includes items with external links, but no further information in the wiki.

List of the most popular additions written by Cumulus users

These are not listed in alphabetical, popularity, or any other particular order within the sections:

for devices

• Toolbox Cumulus Toolbox contains a variety of extra features to enhance the power of Cumulus by providing a number of automated processes
• Cumulus Realtime Gadget A Windows desktop gadget written in days of Windows Vista.
• Sunbird – Ubuntu Screenlet A ‘Screenlet’ for Ubuntu Linux
• ICumulus_for_iPhone An iPhone friendly web interface (written for Cumulus 1)
• Home Weather Station An Android app for displaying Cumulus data.

web template complete set replacements

• Responsive web pages A package that contains replacements for the Cumulus 1 set of web templates, the MX set of web templates, and the MX admin interface. Where MX uses the Bootstrap package to build web pages, Neil Thomas has used w3.css templates. As he says, editing his pages is easier than editing Bootstrap if you are a beginner.
• AJAX/PHP_Website_Template and XHTML 1.1 compliant Ajax framework Ajax XML HTML web server frame set that displays dynamic real time data on your web pages
• CumulusMX_and_Cumulus1_UI_style_Multilingual_Websites A set of web pages imitating the pages used in Cumulus MX administrative interface (Dashboard, Now, Gauges, Charts, Today/Yesterday, Records), designed to work with both Cumulus 1 and MX.
• AJAX/PHP Multilingual Website Templates A set of configurable templates to create a full ‘real time’ web site. The AJAX scripts allow the web pages to be updated whenever a new set of real-time figures are available.
• Météo du Québec Traduction et adaptation française de Cumulus Icônes, librairies et Modules exclusifs à Cumulus Forum de discussion en français. Ouvert à la francophonie!
• Weather by You! Alternative web site templates, developed from Météo du Québec as an international alternative site for use with Cumulus, many different styles.

alternative web site pages

• WeatherConsole Text-based ‘live’ weather display for a web site
• Weather34 Dashboard by Brian Underdown. A clean, attractive template for displaying Cumulus data using realtime.txt. You can read more about this in the forum. Download the official latest Cumulus version here: Home Weather Station Template light and dark themes
• YADR Yet Another Dayfile Reader, written in PHP to read Dayfile.txt with Monthly & Seasonal Display. For a full discussion on all dayfile readers see Daily Summary page, where this one is compared with others.

additions to cumulus

• Cumulusutils Generates a Fire Weather web page. Plus much more, including above YADR. See the linked Forum Post for full details.