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The update made to this page draws on what has been said spread over lots of posts on the support forum and attempts to make it more accessible by repeating it on this page. Consequently, you don't now need to search in the way that Steve Loft's original text above implies. | Although the message above from Steve Loft has been retained, it is no longer really true. When that was written on 2 January 2015, MX had been worked on for a year or so and had just opened up for beta testing. | ||
Since then, of course MX has come out of beta and added a lot more functionality. More importantly, it has gained a large user base (although Cumulus 1 is still used by considerably more people than MX, there has been a recent surge of converts), and that means it is much better known, and consequently it is possible now to document it much better. The update made to this page draws on what has been said spread over lots of posts on the support forum and attempts to make it more accessible by repeating it on this page. Consequently, you don't now need to search in the way that Steve Loft's original text above implies. | |||
In writing this update, I have drawn on my own experience of moving from Cumulus 1 to MX, and thus my knowledge of Cumulus is from over a decade of experience with this software and what it can do. | |||
Before I swapped, I made a detailed study to check MX could do all I used to do with Cumulus 1 and much more. Before I add items to this article I play around with MX experimenting with what works and what does not work, but I have saved you the pain of where I went wrong, just telling you what is correct. I do need to add, that I don't have a separate testing environment, and therefore I am not willing to attempt anything that might muck up my collecting of weather information, plus currently I only have a second-hand (ex-NHS) PC and a simple smart phone, so my technology, as well as my ineptness because I belong to that generation who did not have desktop computers, nor mobile devices, until some time into my working life. This all places restrictions on what I can test out, and therefore on the coverage of these notes. | |||
'''If anyone else, can improve these notes, wants to split off more parts, or in any other way make the documentation better, then please do. I have already made improvement that were suggested by others.''' | |||
If this page, and those other Wiki pages it links to (e.g. [[Cumulus MX FAQ]]), do not answer all your questions then see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=40 the support forum for current Cumulus MX] as that will let you see what other people have asked about, any posts I have not yet incorporated into this page, and there you get the opportunity to post your own query. | If this page, and those other Wiki pages it links to (e.g. [[Cumulus MX FAQ]]), do not answer all your questions then see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=40 the support forum for current Cumulus MX] as that will let you see what other people have asked about, any posts I have not yet incorporated into this page, and there you get the opportunity to post your own query. | ||