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I have used Cumulus 1 for a decade or so, and been very happy with it, but I wanted to give MX a go without affecting my Cumulus 1 installation. Here is exactly what I did, step by step. | I have used Cumulus 1 for a decade or so, and been very happy with it, but I wanted to give MX a go without affecting my Cumulus 1 installation. Here is exactly what I did on my ex NHS Windows 10 Pro PC, step by step; I am hoping it might help some readers. | ||
#I downloaded the '''CumulusMXDist3069''' zip from [[Software#Current_Release|the Current Release section]] on the downloads page. | #I downloaded the '''CumulusMXDist3069''' zip from [[Software#Current_Release|the Current Release section]] on the downloads page. | ||
#I unzipped the contents (on my Windows PC) into a partition I use just for software downloads | #I unzipped the contents (on my Windows PC) into a partition I use just for software downloads | ||
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#The locale I used for Cumulus 1 is going to be the same I will use for MX (same PC!) so my copying across of my existing files should be fairly easy: | #The locale I used for Cumulus 1 is going to be the same I will use for MX (same PC!) so my copying across of my existing files should be fairly easy: | ||
#* I copy '''\Cumulus\Cumulus1.ini''' to ''\CumulusMX'' folder as "Cumulus.ini". I then edit the MX "Cumulus.ini" file: | #* I copy '''\Cumulus\Cumulus1.ini''' to ''\CumulusMX'' folder as "Cumulus.ini". I then edit the MX "Cumulus.ini" file: | ||
#** | #**In the "'''[FTP site]'''" (yes, mine was named correctly with second word all lowercase), I had a number of edits to make: | ||
#** | #**# I change any references to web pages within "Cumulus" folder to say within "CumulusMX" folder. | ||
#**In the "[NOAA]" section I had '''MonthFileFormat="NOAAMO"MMMyyyy".txt"''' on a line, I checked at [[Webtags#List_of_allowed_modifiers|List of allowed date/time modifiers]] that 'MMM' and 'yyyy' were valid in Cumulus MX as well as in Cumulus 1, they were so no edit needed either to that line or to "YearFileFormat="NOAAYR"yyyy".txt" line. | #**# Next where I want a transfer done only at end of day, I have added lines like "ExtraEOD19=1" and changed the previous "ExtraRealtime19=1" to "ExtraRealtime19=0" (I previously used realtime as that was only way in Cumulus 1 to ensure a transfer happened as close to end of day as possible, but it inefficiently also made huge numbers of unwanted transfers during the day). I had 9 such files being copied far too often, so those 9 changes will cause a huge reduction in processing load! | ||
#**# I have a few files that are PHP scripts listed in this section written as Cumulus templates; each has a number of PHP variables being set equal to a Cumulus web tag. In some cases the web tags have date/time parameters, for these I had previously edited any ""hh" into "HH", any "mm" into "MM", any "mmm" into "MMM" and any "mmmm" into "MMMM" in line with the recommendations I had some years ago put in [[Webtags#List_of_allowed_modifiers|this table]] for Cumulus 1. That left "nn" for minutes in Cumulus 1 where I could not change it to a MX equivalent "mm" which Cumulus 1 would have taken as month. So now I created a new version of the one PHP script that used "nn", changed it in the new script to "mm" and changed the reference in the MX '''Cumulus.ini''' to the old file to refer to the new file. | |||
#**In the "'''[NOAA]'''" section I had '''MonthFileFormat="NOAAMO"MMMyyyy".txt"''' on a line, I checked at [[Webtags#List_of_allowed_modifiers|List of allowed date/time modifiers]] that 'MMM' and 'yyyy' were valid in Cumulus MX as well as in Cumulus 1, they were so no edit needed either to that line or to "YearFileFormat="NOAAYR"yyyy".txt" line. | |||
#Next, I copied my existing Cumulus 1 alarm sounds in "\Cumulus" across to MX folder "\CumulusMX\interface\sounds" as these were refenced in my main Cumulus.ini file. | #Next, I copied my existing Cumulus 1 alarm sounds in "\Cumulus" across to MX folder "\CumulusMX\interface\sounds" as these were refenced in my main Cumulus.ini file. | ||
#*The file "\CumulusMX\Reports\.gitignore" is joined in the Reports folder by copying inwhat I currently have in "\Cumulus\Reports". These are another "Cumulus.ini" and the existing monthly and annual NOAA reports. I don't need to change those file names as I will continue to use the same format (see change to main Cumulus.ini mentioned above). | #*The file "\CumulusMX\Reports\.gitignore" is joined in the Reports folder by copying inwhat I currently have in "\Cumulus\Reports". These are another "Cumulus.ini" and the existing monthly and annual NOAA reports. I don't need to change those file names as I will continue to use the same format (see change to main Cumulus.ini mentioned above). | ||