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=== Correcting an error in today's total rainfall === | === Correcting an error in today's total rainfall === | ||
You can correct rainfall total (for current [[meteorological day]] since rollover). | |||
* [[File:Badge v1.png]]select 'Today's rain in the [[Cumulus_Screenshots#File.2FEdit.2FHelp_Menu|edit menu]] accessed from main screen in Cumulus 1, | |||
Just use the [[Today.ini#Editing_rainfall_in_today.ini_within_Cumulus | 'today's rain']] editor on the edit menu. | |||
* [[File:Badge v1.png]]select ''Today's rain'' in the [[Cumulus_Screenshots#File.2FEdit.2FHelp_Menu|edit menu]] accessed from main screen in Cumulus 1, | |||
* [[File:Badge vMx.png]]select '''Today's rain''' in the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Today.27s_rain.27|edit menu]] of MX interface. | * [[File:Badge vMx.png]]select '''Today's rain''' in the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Today.27s_rain.27|edit menu]] of MX interface. | ||
This edit will actually alter the start of day rainfall counter figure: | This edit will actually alter '''the start of day rainfall counter figure held by Cumulus internally''' (RAM): | ||
*If you want today's rain to seem less (perhaps you or the wind knocked the rain gauge), Cumulus will increase the start of day counter | * If you want today's rain to seem less (perhaps you, an animal, or the wind, knocked the rain gauge), Cumulus will increase the start of day counter | ||
*If you want today's rain to seem greater (perhaps the rain gauge got blocked by a leaf), Cumulus will decrease the start of day counter | * If you want today's rain to seem greater (perhaps the rain gauge got blocked by a leaf, or a bird), Cumulus will decrease the start of day counter | ||
* Be aware that if you stop Cumulus, and restart it, before end of meteorological day, internally held variables are lost, so the start of day figure will revert | |||
Please note that this edit ''does not affect'' "rain rate", "maximum hourly rain", "maximum 24-hour rain", or "rain since midnight", ''nor does it update'' ANY EXISTING data log line so it has correct rainfall counter reading. Please see [[Today.ini#Editing_rainfall_in_today.ini_within_Cumulus]] for details of how to edit those related fields so when Cumulus is restarted all are corrected. | |||
If you send rainfall data to: | |||
* any third-party external web site | |||
* MQTT or other local system | |||
* any database tables (e.g. if you ask MX to automatically insert a new row into a monthly table on your database server whenever a new line is stored in the [[Standard_log_files]]) | |||
''then be aware that'' that this correction does '''not send any update''' for any messages/values '''already sent'''. | |||
=Some definitions= | =Some definitions= | ||