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=Purpose of Cumulus.ini file=
=Purpose of Cumulus.ini file=


This is a text file containing initialization parameters. {{Template:Version badge Mx}}This page covers those used by the Cumulus MX software application.
This is a text file containing initialization parameters. {{Template:Version badge Mx}}This page covers those used by the Cumulus MX software applica3.2.0 to 3.5.4tion.


For MX there can only to be one '''Cumulus.ini''' file, and it must be stored in the same folder as the executable "CumulusMX.exe".   
For MX there can only to be one '''Cumulus.ini''' file, and it must be stored in the same folder as the executable "CumulusMX.exe".   
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# Even more dramatic changes to the MX configuration have been happening since 3.8.0, with the biggest changes at 3.9.2, 3.10.0, and 3.12.0; therefore, <big>the decision was taken to abandon maintaining the page previously called "Cumulus.ini", and start again with a brand new empty page!</big>
# Even more dramatic changes to the MX configuration have been happening since 3.8.0, with the biggest changes at 3.9.2, 3.10.0, and 3.12.0; therefore, <big>the decision was taken to abandon maintaining the page previously called "Cumulus.ini", and start again with a brand new empty page!</big>


All the pages, previously called "Cumulus.ini", can be found from the owning [[:Category:Configuration Files|category]].  The original page was preserved at [[Cumulus.ini_(preserving_history)]] so look there for its editing history.  That page also expands on the above summary of why that old page was replaced by this new page.
 
All the pages, previously called "Cumulus.ini", can be found from the owning [[:Category:Configuration Files|category]].  The original page was preserved at [[Cumulus.ini_(preserving_history)]] so look there for its editing history.  That page also expands on the above summary of why that old page was replaced.
 
You will also note that this page does not cover all settings in detail, and find some links to further pages within some sections below


==Need to install MX 3.12.0 ==
==Need to install MX 3.12.0 ==
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== Alarms (and emails) ==
== Alarms (and emails) ==


In the table below "Notify" determines whether an alarm is shown on the "Dashboard" page, for release 3.11.2 and subsequent the alarm also has to be enabled for it to appear.  
The Alarm settings seem to frequently be changed by new MX releases, so have been moved to a separate [[Alarms|wiki page]] where hopefully it will be easier for somebody to keep the content updated in future.


Introduction column:
==Charts==
# There was no alarm functionality in builds in the 3.0.0 and 3.1.x series
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} Charts have evolved rapidly in MX development, this table needs verification by somebody who uses the functionality documented here. Can you be the contributor to bring it up to date?
# Any alarm functionality where the column says "Legacy Cumulus" was available before 1.9.0 and introduced into MX in one of the releases between 3.2.0 and 3.5.4.
# Any alarm functionality where the column says "Cumulus 2" was requested for that withdrawn flavour, subsequently added to a 1.9.x release, introduced into MX in one of the releases between 3.2.0 and 3.5.4. 
# New alarm functionality introduced in the range of releases 3.2.0 to 3.5.4 has that range shown (rather than the exact release).
# For alarm functionality first introduced in or after release 3.7.0, the release of introduction is shown in "Introduced" column.
# There were no changes to Alarm functionality between 3.7.1 and 3.8.4 inclusive, so if you are running one of the 3.8.x releases, the Wiki page that applies for "alarms" is [[Cumulus.ini_(MX_3.0.0_to_3.7.0)|the early MX releases page]], not this Wiki page.
# In the range of releases subsequent to 3.9.0 as covered by this Wiki page, the alarm functionality has been dramatically changing:
#* Latching of alarms was introduced at 3.9.1 (b. 3096), most alarms had no default for how long they stayed "latched", but at least one had a 12 hour default and at least one had an until end of day default.
#* At 3.9.2 (b.3097) reporting of notifications were added to the admin interface (called "Cumulus Dashboard" in the relevant release announcement at [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=148406#p148406 Cumulus MX Announcements and Download - PLEASE READ FIRST],
#* At 3.9.5 (b. 3100) the latching functionality was corected,
#* At 3.9.6 (b.3101) the alarm latch hours were all defaulted to 24 hours,
#* At 3.11.0 (build 3129) where the email functionality was added,
#* And at 3.11.2 (b. 3131) where the [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=154233#p154233 release announcement] says "this release sees the Alarms getting some more love".
 
"Shown on Settings page?" and "MX Section" columns:
* For releases between 3.2.0 and 3.10.5, all alarm related settings were "always" shown, and none required opening a "MX section".
* For release 3.11.0 and subsequent releases, the introduction of email functionality means there are now some alarm related settings on the "Internet Settings" page, where there is a section "Email Server Settings" that needs to be opened, and a ''master'' setting that determines whether other settings are shown or not.


"Label on Settings page" column:
* For releases between 3.2.0 and 3.10.5, all alarm related settings were shown using [[MX_Basic_info#dataTables|a HTML table]], so the entry in the label column in the table below quotes the text shown after the check box that starts the settings table row
* For release 3.11.0 and subsequent releases, the introduction of email functionality means there are now some alarm related settings where the label column quotes the text shown beside the individual setting, but all other alarm related settings quote the text shown after the check box that starts a settings table row
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:150px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page (mostly in '''Alarm''' column)
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
|-
| alarmhighgust=0
| GraphHours=24
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs
| Wind gust more than:
| Graph hours
| 0 (disabled)
| 24 (2 rolling days worth of values)
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of calculated (10 minute) wind gust that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
| For those plots that show values (if available) minute by minute, how many days back to go. Some people prefer to set this to 48 or 96, that means uploading a lot more data in the [[:Category:JSON_Files|.json files]], but it shows more on charts
|-
|-
| alarmhighpress=0
| AppTempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Legacy Cumulus
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Apparent temperature
| Pressure rises above:
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Australian Apparent Temperature plotted on Charts
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of measured Sea Level Pressure that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
| alarmhighrainrate=0
| BaseTemperature1=
| (always)
| [GrowingDD] and [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Legacy Cumulus
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| Alarm Settings
| Base temperature #1
| Rainfall rate rises above:
| Depends on selected temperature units (not quite same)
| 0 (disabled)
* (Celsius) 5  (equivalent to 41 <sup>o</sup>Fahrenheit)
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of calculated rainfall rate that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
* (Fahrenheit) 40 (equivalent to 4.44 <sup>o</sup>Celsius)
|-
| Base temperature for series 1
| alarmhighraintoday=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall today more than:
| 0 (disabled)
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of calculated daily rainfall total that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
| alarmhightemp=0
| BaseTemperature2=
| (always)
| [GrowingDD] and [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Legacy Cumulus
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| Alarm Settings
| Base temperature #1
| Temperature rises above:
| Depends on selected temperature units (equivalent)
| 0 (disabled)
* (Celsius) 10
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of measured outside temperature that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
* (Fahrenheit) 50
| Base temperature for series 2
|-
|-
| alarmhighwind=
| Cap30C=1
| (always)
| [GrowingDD]
| [Alarms]
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
| Legacy Cumulus
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| Alarm Settings
| Cap GDD at 30°C / 86°F
| Average wind more than:
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want growing degree days capped and not incremented at high temperatures (threshold shown in setting name)
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of calculated average wind speed that has to be exceeded to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
|-
| ChartMaxDays=31
| alarmlowpress=0
| [Graphs]
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs
| Pressure falls below:
| Graph Days
| 0 (disabled)
| 31 (daily values)
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of measured Sea Level Pressure it must go below to trigger the alarm
| For those plots that show recent daily values, this states how many of them to plot
|-
|-
| alarmlowtemp=0
| Colour0=#058DC7, Colour1=#50B432, Colour2=#ED561B, Colour3=#DDDF00, Colour4=#24CBE5, and Colour5=#64E572
| (always)
| [Select-a-Chart]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.9.7 - b3107
| Legacy Cumulus
| ???
| Alarm Settings
| ???
| Temperature falls below:
| Hex colours as shown in parameter list
| 0
| Colour of line used for plotting the respective series
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' of measured outside temperature it must go below to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
| alarmpresschange=0
| DailyAvgTempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Cumulus 2
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Daily Average Temperature
| Pressure changes by:
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily (integrated) Average temperature plotted on Charts
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' by which the measured Sea Level Pressure must rapidly change (in legacy Cumulus this was taking trend for the last hour, the developer has not specified what period applies for MX) to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
| alarmtempchange=0
| DailyMaxTempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Cumulus 2
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Daily Maximum Temperature  
| Temperature changes by:
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily Maximum temperature plotted on Charts
| Use the spin button to select the '''Value''' by which the measured outside temperature must rapidly change (in legacy Cumulus this was taking trend for the last hour, the developer has not specified what period applies for MX) to trigger the alarm
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmEmail=
| DailyMinTempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.11.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Daily Minimum Temperature
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| (blank)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily Minimum temperature plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmLatch=
| DPVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.9.1
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Dew Point plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmLatchHours=24
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.9.1
| Alarm Settings
| Station batteries are low
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmNotify=0
| FeelsLikeVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Feels Like Temperature plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmSet=0
| GrowingDegreeDaysVisible1=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]  
| [Alarms]
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
| (changed at 3.10.3)
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Degree Days
| Alarm Settings
| Growing Degree Days series #1
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see series 1 plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if the weather station either supplies a voltage, or other battery indication that can be interpreted, and MX interprets that as indicating a low battery
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmSound=0
| GrowingDegreeDaysVisible2=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]  
| [Alarms]
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Degree Days
| Alarm Settings
| Growing Degree Days series #2
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see series 2 plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| BatteryLowAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| HIVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Station batteries are low
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| alarm.mp3
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see USA Heat Index plotted on Charts
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmEmail=0
| HumidexVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.11.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Canadian Humidity Index plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmLatch=0
| InHumVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.9.1
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Humidity Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Indoor Relative Humidity plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmLatchHours=24
| InTempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.9.1
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Indoor Temperature plotted on Charts
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmNotify=0
| OutHumVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.7.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Humidity Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Outdoor Relative Humidity plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmSet=0
| Series0= to Series5=
| (always)
| [Select-a-Chart]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.9.7 - b3107
| Release 3.7.0
| ???
| Alarm Settings
| ???
| Data spike is detected
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if while MX is processing raw data from the weather station (in archive catch-up or normal running) there is a spike (a change since previous raw value read that exceeds a difference as defined on "Calibration Settings &rarr; Spike removal")
| Name of parameter to plot (in series 0 to 5) e.g. "Pressure", "Wind Gust", "Temperature", "Rainfall Rate", "Wind Bearing"
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmSound=0
| SolarVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Release 3.7.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| Alarm Settings
| UV Index
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Solar radiation plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
| SunshineVisible=1
| [Graphs]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| UV Index
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Sunshine Hours plotted on Charts
|-
|-
| DataSpikeAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| TempSumVisible0=1
| (always)
| [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.7.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Alarm Settings
| Annual Temperature Sum 0
| Data spike is detected
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| alarm.mp3
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum series 0 plotted on Charts
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmEmail=0
| TempSumVisible1=1
| (always)
| [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.11.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Alarm Settings
| Annual Temperature Sum #1
| Data connection is lost
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum minus baseline 1 plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^ have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmLatch=0
| TempSumVisible2=1
| (always)
| [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.9.1
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Alarm Settings
| Annual Temperature Sum #2
| Data connection is lost
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum minus baseline 2  plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmLatchHours=24
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.9.1
| Alarm Settings
| Data connection is lost
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmNotify=0
| TempSumYearStart=
| (always)
| [TempSum]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.4.2
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Alarm Settings
| Year summation starting month
| Data connection is lost
| Depends on hemisphere
| 0 (disabled)
* (Northern hemisphere) 1 = January
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
* (Southern hemisphere) 7 = July
| Enter as a number the month for which (on first of that month) annual temperature summation is reset to zero
|-
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmSet=0
| TempVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.7.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Alarm Settings
| Dew point
| Data connection is lost
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Outdoor Temperature plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if while MX is processing raw data from the weather station (in archive catch-up or normal running) there is a spike (a change since previous raw value read that exceeds a difference as defined on "Calibration Settings &rarr; Spike removal")
|-
|-
| DataStoppedAlarmSound=0
| UVVisible=1
| (always)
| [Graphs]
| [Alarms]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Release 3.7.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| Alarm Settings
| UV Index
| Data connection is lost
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Ultra Violet Index plotted on Charts
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-  
|-
| WCVisible=1
| DataStoppedAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| [Graphs]
| (always)
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| [Alarms]
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Release 3.7.0
| Dew point
| Alarm Settings
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Data connection is lost
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Wind Chill plotted on charts
| alarm.mp3
|-
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
| YearStarts=
|-
| [GrowingDD]
| DestEmail=
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| [Alarms]
| Growing season starting month
| Release 3.11.0
| Depends on hemisphere
| Alarm Settings
* (Northern hemisphere) 1 = January
| To email adressess(es)
* (Southern hemisphere) 7 = July
| (blank)
| Enter as a number the month for which (on first of that month) Growing degree days is reset to zero
| Please note: You cannot '''Update Alarms''' to save any settings on this page if the text box for this parameter is left blank.
|}


You can enter either a single email addresss or a list of email addresses here, a semicolon must be used as separator between addresses.
==Data Logging==
|-
| Enabled=0
| When section opened
| [SMTP]
| Release 3.11.0
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
| Enabled
| Not ticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| If you tick here, a selection of further options (identified by ^) are shown
|-
| FromEmail=
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0
| Alarm Settings
| From email address
| (blank)
| Please note: You cannot '''Update Alarms''' to save any settings on this page if the text box for this parameter is left blank.


You can enter a single email addresss
* Available in all Cumulus releases
* File Section is [Station]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmEmail=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
| [Alarms]
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Release 3.11.0
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Wind gust more than:
!style="width:600px" | Description
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmLatch=0
| DataLogInterval=2
| (always)
| (Always)
| [Alarms]
| Station settings &rarr; General Settings
| Release 3.9.1
| Log interval
| Alarm Settings
| 2 (10 minutes)
| Wind gust more than:
| Drop-down:
| 0 (disabled)
* 0 = 1 minute between MX logs into the one to three [[Monthly_log_files]] (i.e. [[Standard log files]], and optionally [[Extra Sensor Files]], [[Air_Link_Log.txt]])
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
* 1 = 5 minutes between MX logging lines
|-
* 2 = 10 minutes between MX logging lines
| HighGustAlarmLatchHours=24
* 3 = 15 minutes between MX logging lines
| (always)
* 4 = 20 minutes between MX logging lines
| [Alarms]
* 5 = 30 minutes between MX logging lines
| Release 3.9.1
| Alarm Settings
| Wind gust more than:
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmNotify=0
| LogExtraSensors=0
| (always)
| (Depends on station type) Only from Release 3.12.0
| [Alarms]
| Station settings &rarr; Common Options
| Release 3.11.0
| Extra sensors
| Alarm Settings
| Wind gust more than:
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]  
|Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station can output readings to be logged in [[Extra Sensor Files]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you have nothing to log to Extra Sensor Files.
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmSet=0
| NoSensorCheck=0
| (always)
| (not yet on a settings page)
| [Alarms]
| (not known)
| Legacy Cumulus
| (not known)
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (normal)
| Wind gust more than:
| Boolean:
| 0 (disabled)
* 0 = MX will stop if any of the minimum set of sensors listed below fails
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
* 1 = MX will continue to run, even if any of the minimum set of sensors listed below fails
 
Minimum set of sensors:
# Current air temperature
# Current Relative Humidity
# At least one wind speed
# Current air pressure (absolute or sea-level)
Cumulus will stop processing any information from a weather station unless the above 4 source values are being supplied and reveal they are being updated (failure is set is after a total of 6 unsuccessful consecutive attempts to read each of these).
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmSound=0
| RainDayThreshold=-1
| (always)
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| [Alarms]
| Depends on release:
| Legacy Cumulus
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
| Alarm Settings
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Wind gust more than:
| Rain day threshold
| 0 (disabled)
| -1 (that represents 0.2 mm or 0.01 inches)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
| The amount of rainfall that must be collected before MX treats today as a wet day
 
''The intention is this will represent more than one tip, as the first tip might contain some rain from an earlier day''
|-
|-
| HighGustAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| RolloverHour=0
| (always)
| (Always)
| [Alarms]
| Station settings &rarr; Log Rollover
| Legacy Cumulus
| Time
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (midnight)
| Wind gust more than:
| Radio type selection:
| alarm.mp3
* 0 = MX will do [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches midnight
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
* 1 = MX will do [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches 9 a.m. local standard/winter time
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmEmail=0
| SnowDepthHour=0
| (always)
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| [Alarms]
| Depends on release:
| Release 3.11.0
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
| Alarm Settings
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Pressure rises above:
| Snow depth hour
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (midnight)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
| Spin selector of 0 to 23: Defines hour from which entries in [[Weather Diary]] for current calendar day are used. Prior to this hour the weather diary will be searched for Calendar yesterday
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmLatch=0
| StartDate=
| (always)
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| [Alarms]
| Station Settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| Release 3.9.1
| Records Began date
| Alarm Settings
| (Set when you first use Cumulus)
| Pressure rises above:
| Format used is determined by locale used for running MX.  If this date is edited, keep to same format. MX generally (see [[Calculate_Missing_Values#CreateMissing.exe]] for exceptions) ignores any data file entries prior to this date.
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmLatchHours=24
| UseDataLogger=1
| (always)
| (probably determined by station type)
| [Alarms]
| (not known)
| Release 3.9.1
| (not known)
| Alarm Settings
| 1 (enabled)
| Pressure rises above:
|Simple tick or not
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station has its own storage, so MX can do a catch up when it first starts and read any "archive data"
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station has no storage, and therefore MX cannot capture any readings when it is not running
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmNotify=0
| Use10amInSummer=1
| (always)
| (Always)
| [Alarms]
| Station settings &rarr; Log Rollover
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Use 10am in Summer
| Alarm Settings
| 1 (normal)
| Pressure rises above:
| Tick box:
| 0 (disabled)
* 0 = If "Daylight Saving Time" (DST) applies in Summer,
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]  
** If rollover time is midnight, then rolls over at midnight local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
** If rollover time is 9 a.m., MX is to use 9 am local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
* 1 = Normal behaviour:
** If rollover time is midnight, then rolls over at midnight local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
** If MX would do  [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches 9 a.m. local standard/winter time, then it waits until 10 a.m. local time while DST is in effect
|}
 
 
==Debugging==
 
* Available from beta MX.
* File Section is [Station]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmSet=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:300px" | MX Section
| [Alarms]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Legacy Cumulus
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Pressure rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmSound=0
| Logging=1
| (always)
| Depends on release installed:
| [Alarms]
# Alternatives:
| Legacy Cumulus
#* (Releases 3.0.0 to 3.9.8) Close Cumulus MX, then edit Cumulus.ini configuration file, and add a line in the [Station] section: Logging = 1, then restart Cumulus MX.
| Alarm Settings
#* (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.9.3) Station Settings &rarr Options
| Pressure rises above:
# (Release 3.9.4 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
| Debug logging
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
| This adds extra information about data transfers between your weather station and MX.
 
It was introduced originally for Davis stations only, but later (can someone insert here the relevant release) extended to cover more stations.
|-
|-
| HighPressAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| DataLogging=1
| (always)
| Depends on release installed:
| [Alarms]
# Alternatives:
| Legacy Cumulus
#* (Releases 3.0.0 to 3.9.8) Close Cumulus MX, then edit Cumulus.ini configuration file, and add a line in the [Station] section: DataLogging = 1, then restart Cumulus MX.
| Alarm Settings
#* (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.9.3) Station Settings &rarr Options
| Pressure rises above:
# (Release 3.9.4 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
| alarm.mp3
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
| Debug logging
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmEmail=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall rate rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
| This adds extra information about both data transfers initiated from MX, and all the internal MX processes.
|}
 
==Extra Web Files==
 
There are 100 occurrences of each parameter in Cumulus.ini, and therefore each parameter has a base name followed by numbers 0 to 99.
 
The settings interface presents the rows on multiple pages, the rows are not numbered, so you have to do some counting to work out which row in the admin interface page corresponds with which parameter in Cumulus.ini file.
 
'''You MUST restart MX after any changes in this section, before the new settings take effect.'''
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmLatch=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:100px" | Label on Settings page
| [Alarms]
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Release 3.9.1
!style="width:800px" | Description
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall rate rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmLatchHours=24
|style="background:lightgray;"|[FTP site]  
| (always)
|
| [Alarms]
|
| Release 3.9.1
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall rate rises above:
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmNotify=0
|ExtraLocal0= to ExtraLocal99=
| (always)
|Local File Name
| [Alarms]
|(empty)
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
|You can enter:
| Alarm Settings
* A relative path name, with respect to the "CumulusMX" root folder
| Rainfall rate rises above:
** e.g.  '''./data/dayfile.txt''' (Note: this is the [[Daily_Summary|daily summary log file]], see link for how it can be used on a web server)
| 0 (disabled)
** e.g. '''./webMX/betel_monthlyrecord_liteMXT.html''' (Note: this is a third party [[Cumulus_template_file|template file]] - see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7500 Alternative Monthly Extremes using <#webtag>s]
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]  
** e.g. '''./web/trendsT.htm''' (Note: That file is not part of default web site any more, but serves as another example
* A full path name for a file on the computer running MX
** e.g. '''/home/pi/documents/myFile'''
** e.g. '''C:\Users\Public\Documents\working.txt'''
*You can place any of the following special tags into the entry
** These should be typed as shown on their own
*** '''<noaayearfile>''' and '''<noaamonthfile>''' these respectively represent latest yearly and latest monthly reports 
***  '''<currentlogfile>''',  '''<currentextralogfile>''', and '''<airlinklogfile>''' these respectively represent [[Standard_log_files|standard]], [[Extra_Sensor_Files| extra sensor]], and [[Air_Link_Log.txt|Davis AirLink air quality monitor]] log files  e.g. ExtraLocal3=<currentlogfile>
|-
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmSet=0
|ExtraRemote0= to ExtraRemote99=
| (always)
|Destination Filename
| [Alarms]
|(empty)
| Legacy Cumulus
|Defines where MX is to upload file to
| Alarm Settings
* If file transfer is requested (see below), the file path should be expressed starting at the FTP/FTPS/SFTP root
| Rainfall rate rises above:
**I can't tell you what the file path is for your web server, but I can give a couple of examples to steer you
| 0 (disabled)
*** e.g. httpdocs/dayfile.txt
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
*** e.g. public_html/thismonthyear.htm
|-
* If the FTP is not ticked, the file path should be full path for a file on the computer running MX
| HighRainRateAlarmSound=0
** e.g. /var/www/html/weather/images/moon.png could be destinatation for uploading the MX generated moon image to a Linux hosted [[Your_Own_Server|server]]  
| (always)
** e.g. /var/www/html/weather/webfilesMX/tempdata.json for uploading one of the [[:Category:JSON_Files|files with graph data]] to a Linux hosted [[Your_Own_Server|server]]
| [Alarms]
*You can place any of the following special tags into the entry
| Legacy Cumulus
** These should be typed as shown as part of the destination path, note that they can be used:
| Alarm Settings
*** either to represent the final filename part of the path e.g. ExtraRemote3=/var/www/html/weather/monthly/<currentlogfile>
| Rainfall rate rises above:
*** or to modify a filename, so it becomes unique to a particular month e.g. ExtraRemote0=/var/www/html/weather/cumulus_generated/savedFiles/web_tags_real_time_<currentlogfile>.inc
| 0 (disabled)
** '''<noaayearfile>''' and '''<noaamonthfile>''' these respectively represent latest yearly and latest monthly reports
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
**  '''<currentlogfile>''', '''<currentextralogfile>''', and '''<airlinklogfile>''' these respectively represent [[Standard_log_files|standard]], [[Extra_Sensor_Files| extra sensor]], and [[Air_Link_Log.txt|Davis AirLink air quality monitor]] log files
|-
| HighRainRateAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall rate rises above:
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmEmail=0
|ExtraProcess0= to ExtraProcess99=
| (always)
|Process
| [Alarms]
|0
| Release 3.11.0
|Simple tick or not
| Alarm Settings
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if the local file is a [[Cumulus_template_file|template file]], see [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|here]] for full explanation of '''Process'''
| Rainfall today more than:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want local file uploaded with existing content
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmLatch=0
|ExtraRealtime0= to ExtraRealtime99=
| (always)
|Realtime
| [Alarms]
|0
| Release 3.9.1
|Simple tick or not
| Alarm Settings
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if
| Rainfall today more than:
*# See [[#Realtime Settings]], you must have "Enable realtime" ticked, and defined an interval there
| 0 (disabled)
*# Uploads the file to destination specified at interval defined
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want uploading to happen at a different interval (e.g. [[#Interval Settings|Standard interval]])
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmLatchHours=24
|ExtraFTP0= to ExtraFTP99=
| (always)
|FTP
| [Alarms]
|1
| Release 3.9.1
|Simple tick or not
| Alarm Settings
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to use the FTP protocol specified in [[#Web/FTP Site]]
| Rainfall today more than:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if the remote file is on the computer running MX and a simple Copy File is required
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmNotify=0
|ExtraUTF0= to ExtraUTF99=
| (always)
|UTF-8
| [Alarms]
|1
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
|Please see [[Reports_folder#Encoding|technical guidance on encoding]]
| Alarm Settings
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for default, modern files use UTF-8 encoding, this can display an extended range of characters
| Rainfall today more than:
*If unticked (0 appears in file), then iso-8859-1 encoding is used
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]  
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmSet=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Rainfall today more than:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmSound=0
|ExtraBinary0= to ExtraBinary99=
| (always)
|Binary
| [Alarms]
|0
| Legacy Cumulus
|Simple tick or not
| Alarm Settings
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your file is e.g. an image file (e.g. moon.png)
| Rainfall today more than:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if the file is text, HTML, PHP script, JSON, JavaScript
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| HighRainTodayAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
|ExtraEOD0= to ExtraEOD99=
| (always)
|End of Day
| [Alarms]
|0
| Legacy Cumulus
|Simple tick or not
| Alarm Settings
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your file is to be uploaded during the [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|End of Day process]]
| Rainfall today more than:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want uploading to happen at a different interval (e.g. [[#Interval Settings|Standard interval]])
| alarm.mp3
|}
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
 
== Location==
 
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus
* File Section is [Station]
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmEmail=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| [Alarms]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Release 3.11.0
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Temperature rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmLatch=0
| Altitude=0
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| [Alarms]
| Altitude
| Release 3.9.1
| 0
| Alarm Settings
| The height above mean sea level where the (pressure) sensor is positioned
| Temperature rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmLatchHours=24
| AltitudeInFeet=1
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| [Alarms]
| Altitude Units
| Release 3.9.1
| Default depends on release:
| Alarm Settings
# Legacy until 3.11.4: 1 (labelled as feet)
| Temperature rises above:
# From 3.12.0: 0 (labelled metres)
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Radio Setting
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
* feet  (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
* metres (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmNotify=0
| LocName=
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| [Alarms]
| Name
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| (empty)
| Alarm Settings
| A short name for the location
| Temperature rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmSet=0
| LocDesc=
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| [Alarms]
| Description
| Legacy Cumulus
| (empty)
| Alarm Settings
| A longer description for the location
| Temperature rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmSound=0
| "Latitude=0" and "LatTxt="
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location &rarr; Latitude
| [Alarms]
| "Degrees", "Minutes", "Seconds", and "Hemisphere &rarr; North or South"
| Legacy Cumulus
| (blank)
| Alarm Settings
| The selections made on this Settings Page sub-section will place the appropriate content in the two parameters in the file
| Temperature rises above:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| HighTempAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| "Longitude=0" and "LongTxt="
| (always)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location &rarr; Longitude
| [Alarms]
| "Degrees", "Minutes", "Seconds", and "Hemisphere &rarr; East or West"
| Legacy Cumulus
| (blank)
| Alarm Settings
| The selections made on this Settings Page sub-section will place the appropriate content in the two parameters in the file
| Temperature rises above:
|}
| alarm.mp3
 
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
 
==Optional Report Settings==
 
* File Section is [NOAA]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmEmail=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| [Alarms]
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Release 3.11.0
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Average wind more than:
!style="width:300px" | Description
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if alarm is triggered
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmLatch=0
| AutoCopy=0
| (always)
| Release 3.12.0
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Release 3.9.1
| Auto Copy NOAA report files
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (disable)
| Average wind more than:
| Simple tick or not
| 0 (disabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your report is to be copied to copy directory during the [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|End of Day process]]
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no copy action
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmLatchHours=24
| AutoFTP=0
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Release 3.9.1
| Auto transfer NOAA report files
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (disable)
| Average wind more than:
| Simple tick or not
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) to enable the file transfer process you have defined for MX, to upload the file for you (at first update time after rollover has completed)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable any file transfer process
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmNotify=0
| AutoSave=1
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings  
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Create NOAA files after daily rollover
| Alarm Settings
|0
| Average wind more than:
| Simple tick or not
| 0 (disabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to use the (optional) Reports functionality
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX Reports functionality not required
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmSet=0
| City=
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
| Legacy Cumulus
| City
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Average wind more than:
| Enter here your hamlet, village, town, or city, name
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmSound=0
| CoolingThreshold=22
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Legacy Cumulus
| Cooling threshold
| Alarm Settings
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
| Average wind more than:
| [[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Cold_Degree_Days|Cold Degree Days]] are a measure of the need to cool the air to make it more comfortable,  based on time above, and temperature difference above, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 22 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| HighWindAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| CopyDirectory=
| (always)
| Release 3.12.0
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Legacy Cumulus
| Copy Directory
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Average wind more than:
| The folder on the web server you host to which reports are to be copied
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmEmail=0
| FTPDirectory=
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Release 3.11.2
| destination folder
| Alarm Settings
| Depends on release:
| HTTP upload errors
* (3.1.0 to 3.11.4) blank
| 0 (disabled)
* (3.12.0 onwards) to match change in default web site script specification of '''Reports''' folder
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
| Specify the destination folder for file transfer to, on your FTP server
|-
*Leave at default (for your release) and MX will work with the default web pages script supplied (at same release)
| HttpUploadAlarmLatch=0
* Specify a folder relative to FTP root, and MX will upload reports to that folder instead (you are then responsible for writing any script on your web site to find each report and do any processing).
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| HTTP upload errors
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmLatchHours=24
| HeatingThreshold=15.5
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Heating threshold
| Alarm Settings
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
| HTTP upload errors
|[[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Heat_Degree_Days| Heating Degree Days]] are a measure of the need for heating, based on time below, and temperature difference below, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 15.5 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmNotify=0
| MaxTempComp1=22
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Max temp comparison 1
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| HTTP upload errors
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the cooling degree day threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmSet=0
| MaxTempComp2=0
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Max temp comparison 2
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| HTTP upload errors
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmSound=0
| MinTempComp1=15.5
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Min temp comparison 1
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| HTTP upload errors
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the heating degree day  threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| MinTempComp2=0
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Min temp comparison 2  
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| HTTP upload errors
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| HttpUploadAlarmTriggerCount=1
| MonthFileFormat='NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt'
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
| Release 3.11.2
| Monthly filename format
| Alarm Settings
| 'NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt' (note quotes round '''NOAAMO''' and round '''.txt''')
| HTTP upload errors
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, monthly reports
| 1 (trigger immediately a failure occurs)
 
| Use the spin button to specify how many failures need to occur, within the latch time, before the alarm is triggered
There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension.  e.g. "NOAAMO"MMMyyyy".txt" would also be valid.
|-
|-
| Logging=0
| Name=Personal Weather Station
| ^
| First with Cumulus 2
| [SMTP]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
| Release 3.11.2
| Site Name
| Depends on release:
| (empty)
# (Release 3.9.4 to 3.11.4) Program Settings → Program General Options
| What you would like to see in report title for your station name
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings → Logging Options
| Email logging
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want to enable extra SMTP logging to the smtp.log file in the [[MXdiags folder|'''MXdiags''' folder]].
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no extra information in diagnostic logging
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmEmail=0
| NOAAUseUTF8=1
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Release 3.11.0
| Use UTF-8 encoding
| Alarm Settings
| 1 (UTF-8)
| Pressure falls below:
| Please see [[Reports_folder#Encoding]]
| 0 (disabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for default, modern files use UTF-8 encoding, this can display an extended range of characters, including the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
* If unticked (0 appears in file), then iso-8859-1 encoding is used, this has a more restricted range of characters, and the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol is coded differently
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmLatch=0
| RainComp1=0.5
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.11.2
| Rain comparison 1
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Pressure falls below:
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to the same as I have set else where as my significant rain threshold
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmLatchHours=24
| RainComp2=
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.9.1
| Rain comparison 2
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Pressure falls below:
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmNotify=0
| RainComp3=
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Rain comparison 3
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Pressure falls below:
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmSet=0
| State=
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
| Legacy Cumulus
| State
| Alarm Settings
| (empty)
| Pressure falls below:
| Enter here your local authority area or region (state in USA)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
|-
| LowPressAlarmSound=0
| UseDotDecimal=0
| (always)
| Release 3.9.5 - b3100
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Legacy Cumulus
| Use a 'dot' decimal point
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (disable)
| Pressure falls below:
| Formatting real numbers for when NOAA report parsed by a script
| 0 (disabled)
 
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want NOAA reports to use decimal point even if locale says use decimal comma
| LowPressAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if NOAA reports use the integer/decimal separator specified by locale
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Pressure falls below:
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
|-
| LowTempAlarmEmail=0
| UseMinMaxAvg=0
| (always)
| Release 3.12.0
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Release 3.11.0
| Use WHO average or Integrated average
| Alarm Settings
| 0 (integrated average)
| Temperature falls below:
| Simple tick or not
| 0 (disabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use WHO approach: (min + max)/2
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use integrated calculation: Sum of all temperature measurements divided by count of measurements
|-
|-
| LowTempAlarmLatch=0
| YearFileFormat='NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt’
| (always)
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
| Release 3.11.2
| Yearly filename format
| Alarm Settings
| 'NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt'
| Temperature falls below:
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, yearly reports
| 0 (disabled)
 
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension.
|-
|-
| LowTempAlarmLatchHours=24
|12hourformat=0
| (always)
| ???
| [Alarms]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
| Release 3.9.1
|Time format
| Alarm Settings
|0 (24 hour)
| Temperature falls below:
| How times are output on reports
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
* 24 Hour (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
* 12 Hour (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
|-
|}
| LowTempAlarmNotify=0
 
| (always)
 
| [Alarms]
===Normal Mean Temperatures===
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
 
| Alarm Settings
* File Section is [NOAA]
| Temperature falls below:
* The parameters run from ‘’’NOAATempNormJan=’’’ to ‘’’NOAATempNormDec=’’
| 0 (disabled)
* There is one box labelled for each month on the settings screens
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]  
* All the defaults are (blank)
|-
* What you enter is the mean temperature, long-term averages (say over 10 or 30 years if available) say is expected that month, often taken from local climate statistics, or your own past measurements
| LowTempAlarmSet=1
 
| (always)
===Normal Precipitation===
| [Alarms]
 
| Legacy Cumulus
* File Section is [NOAA]
| Alarm Settings
Rainfall equivalents of mean temperature described above
| Temperature falls below:
 
| 0 (disabled)
 
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
==Optional Structured Query Language Settings==
 
MX uses a software package called "MySqlConnect" to run SQL queries.
 
Since the text that appeared here was added, documenting plans for the future 3.12.0 release, there have been a number of changes, and now a future release (3.20.0) is expected to make more drastic changes.  Therefore the content has been moved to a [[MySqlConnect|new "MySqlConnect" page]] where it is hoped somebody will find it easier to update the content as MX develops.
 
 
==Optional Third-party Upload Settings==
 
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| LowTempAlarmSound=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:30px" | File Section
| [Alarms]
!style="width:60px" | MX Section
| Legacy Cumulus
!style="width:80px" | Action on Settings page
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Temperature falls below:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
|-
| At time of writing there is a MX bug:
| <pre>ID=
* (Reads) LowTempAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
pass=-1
* (Writes) LowTempAlarm.SoundFile=alarm.mp3
server=cwop.aprs.net
| (always)
port=14580
| [Alarms]
Enabled=0
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
Interval=9
| Alarm Settings
SendSR=0
| Temperature falls below:
APRSHumidityCutoff=0</pre>
| alarm.mp3
| [APRS]
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
| APRS/CWOP
|-
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| MySqlUploadAlarmEmail=0
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| MySQL upload errors
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmLatch=0
| <pre>User=
| (always)
Password=
| [Alarms]
Language=en
| Release 3.11.2
Enabled=0
| Alarm Settings
Interval=900
| MySQL upload errors
SendUV=0
| 0 (disabled)
SendSR=0
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
SendSoilTemp=0
SendIndoor=0
SendSoilMoisture=0
SendLeafWetness=0
SendAirQuality=0</pre>
| [Awekas]
| AWEKAS
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmLatchHours=24
| <pre>Enabled=0
| (always)
CatchUp=1
| [Alarms]
APIkey=
| Release 3.11.2
StationId=
| Alarm Settings
Interval=15</pre>
| MySQL upload errors
| [OpenWeatherMap]
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| OpenWeatherMap
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmNotify=0
| <pre>ID=
| (always)
Password=
| [Alarms]
Enabled=0
| Release 3.11.2
Interval=15
| Alarm Settings
SendUV=0
| MySQL upload errors:
SendSR=0
| 0 (disabled)
CatchUp=1</pre>
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
| [PWSweather]
| PWS Weather
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmSound=0
| <pre>User=
| (always)
Password=
| [Alarms]
Enabled=0
| Release 3.11.2
Interval=60
| Alarm Settings
OauthToken=unknown
| MySQL upload errors:
OauthTokenSecret=unknown
| 0 (disabled)
TwitterSendLocation=1</pre>
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
| [Twitter]
| Twitter
| Please note that twitter is deprecated, no new settings possible, existing settings can be used by people who migrated from Cumulus 1 with working tokens
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| <pre>Wid=
| (always)
Key=
| [Alarms]
Enabled=0
| Release 3.11.2
Interval=10
| Alarm Settings
SendUV=0
| MySQL upload errors:
SendSR=0
| alarm.mp3
SendAQI=0
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
SendSoilMoisture=0
SoilMoistureSensor=0
SendLeafWetness=0
LeafWetnessSensor=0</pre>
| [WeatherCloud]
| WeatherCloud
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| MySqlUploadAlarmTriggerCount=1
| <pre>Enabled=0
| (always)
StationUID=
| [Alarms]
Password=
| Release 3.11.2
Interval=1
| Alarm Settings
SendRain=0</pre>
| MySQL upload errors:
| [WindGuru]
| 1 (trigger immediently a failure occurs)
| Windguru
| Use the spin button to specify how many failures need to occur, within the latch time, before the alarm is triggered
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| Password=
| <pre>APIkey=
| ^
StationIdx=0
| [SMTP]
Enabled=0
| Release 3.11.0
Interval=15
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
SendUV=0
| Password
CatchUp=1</pre>
| (blank)
| [Windy]
| Text box where you enter password needed to authenticate with your SMTP email server
| Windy.com
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| Port=587
| <pre>ID=
| ^
Password=
| [SMTP]
Enabled=0
| Release 3.11.0
Interval=15
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
SendUV=0
| Network Port
SendSR=0
| 587
CatchUp=1</pre>
| Text box where you enter the port used to connect to your SMTP email server
| [WOW]
|-
| Met Office WOW
| PressChangeAlarmEmail=0
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| (always)
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
| [Alarms]
|}
| Release 3.11.0
 
| Alarm Settings
==Optional Web Server==
| Pressure changes by:
 
| 0 (disabled)
There are two sub-sections below, because the settings for the optional web functionality are split between '''Station Settings''' and  '''Internet Settings'''.
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^ have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
 
|-
 
| PressChangeAlarmLatch=0
=== Display Options controlling what appears on default web pages ===
| (always)
 
| [Alarms]
* File Section is '''[Display]'''
| Release 3.11.2
* MX Section is '''Station Settings &rarr; Display Options'''
| Alarm Settings
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| Pressure changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
| PressChangeAlarmLatchHours=24
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| Pressure changes by:
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
|-
| PressChangeAlarmNotify=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| (always)
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| [Alarms]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Alarm Settings
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Pressure changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
|-
| PressChangeAlarmSet=0
| DisplaySolarData=0
| (always)
| ??? 3.10.0 ???
| [Alarms]
| Display Solar data
| Legacy Cumulus
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| Alarm Settings
| Pressure changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if measured Sea Level Pressure rapidly changes (in legacy Cumulus this was taking trend for the last hour, the developer has not specified what period applies for MX) by, or more than, the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
|-
| PressChangeAlarmSound=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Pressure changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
| PressChangeAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Alarm Settings
| Pressure changes by:
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
| RequiresAuthentication=0
| ^
| [SMTP]
| Release 3.11.0
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
| Use authentication
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if a user name and password is needed to authenticate with your SMTP email server
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display solar data in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if your SMTP email server is not protected by a user name or password
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to suppress the table cells that would display solar data
|-
|-
| SensorAlarmEmail=0
| DisplayUvData=0
| (always)
| ??? 3.10.0 ???
| [Alarms]
| Display UV-I data 
| Release 3.11.0
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)  
| Alarm Settings
| Simple tick or not
| Sensor contact lost
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display ultra-violet intensity data in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards)
| 0 (disabled)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to suppress the table cells that would display UV intensity data
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
|-
|-
| SensorAlarmLatch=0
| NumWindRosePoints=16
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| Sensor contact lost
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
|-
| SensorAlarmLatchHours=24
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| Sensor contact lost
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
|-
| SensorAlarmNotify=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Alarm Settings
| Sensor contact lost
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
|-
| SensorAlarmSet=1
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| Alarm Settings
| Number of wind rose points
| Sensor contact lost
| 16
| 0 (disabled)
| Drop-down determining if weather station bearing supplied by weather station is to be converted to 8 or 16 compass directions (i.e. whether to include or exclude (in English) NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW, and NNW
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if calculated (10 minute) wind gust exceeds the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
* 8 points
* 16 points
Despite what it says in the hint on the settings page, leave at default whichever weather station type you use, unless this actually causes you a problem.  The parameter was introduced by Steve Loft.  Davis wind vanes use a potentiometer to measure wind direction so send Cumulus a bearing that can vary continuously between 1 and 360 degrees. Fine Offset wind vanes use magnetic switches that depend on the magnet under the moving part selecting two switches in the fixed part for the vane being exactly in-between compass directions, and selecting one switch for the main 8 directions and slightly away from the main directions; so they have a bias against sending Cumulus the in-between directions.
|-
|-
| SensorAlarmSound=0
| UseApparent=1
| (always)
| ??? MX 3.6.0 or 3.10.0 ???
| [Alarms]
| Use Apparent Temperature
| Legacy Cumulus
| Ticked (shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
| Alarm Settings
| Simple tick or not
| Sensor contact lost
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display apparent temperature in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards) for consistency with Cumulus prior to release 3.6.0
| 0 (disabled)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display feels like temperature  in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards) for consistency with Cumulus from release 3.6.0
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|}
|-
 
| SensorAlarmSoundFile==alarm.mp3
 
| (always)
=== File transfer and Copy Options controlling transfer of data to default web pages ===
| [Alarms]
 
| Legacy Cumulus
The settings listed in table below changed dramatically at both 3.10.0 and 3.12.0 releases, but they have gradually evolved throughout the development of MX.
| Alarm Settings
 
| Sensor contact lost
From 3.12.0, MX can optionally ''either'' '''copy''' files to a [[Your Own Server|web server you host]] ''or'' '''file transfer''' files to a [[Webspace|commercial web server]].
| alarm.mp3
 
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
To implement (and customise) this web server functionality, there are many settings as listed alphabetically in this table. The ''Internet settings'' page simplifies making settings by providing selections that amend multiple settings in a bulk operation:
|-
* Some settings (marked ^ in table) are only displayed if you select '''I want to use the supplied default web site'''.  
| ServerName=
** For these settings, the "Generate" option is enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) settings
| ^
** If you select "Enable file copy of standard files" (default is disabled) then those settings have their "Copy" option enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) cases, and their "FTP Transfer" option deselected (instead of defaults shown in table)
| [SMTP]
** If you deselect "Enable file transfer of standard files" (default is enabled) then those settings have their "Copy" option disabled, and their "FTP Transfer" option enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) cases (as per defaults shown in table)
| Release 3.11.0
* '''The default selections assume you have air quality, and solar, sensors; so you may need to disable some of the defaults the above selections have made'''
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
* If you don't select '''I want to use the supplied default web site''', then all the settings marked ^ are disabled
| Server Name
** This is what you want if you do not use the MX optional web server functionality
| (blank)
** If you have a customised  web site, you may want to select '''I want to use the supplied default web site'''  to see the settings that would otherwise all be disabled, and then pick any options that would be useful to you.
| Text box where you enter name, or IP address of your SMTP email server
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| SSLOption=1
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| ^
!style="width:100px" | File Section
| [SMTP]
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| Release 3.11.0
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Use SSL/TLS (deprecated Secure Sockets Layer and replacement Transport Layer Security)
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| 1 (Auto)
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Drop down:
!style="width:600px" | Description
* 0 = None
* 1 = Auto
* 2 = TLS on connect
* 3 = Start TLS
* 4 = Start TLS when available
|-
|-
| SpikeAlarmTriggerCount=
| ActiveFTP=0
| (always)
| [FTP site]
| [Alarms]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.11.2
| No
| Alarm Settings
| Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
| Data spike is detected
| (n/a )
| 1 (trigger immediently a failure occurs)
| (n/a)
| Use the spin button to specify how many failures need to occur, within the latch time, before the alarm is triggered
| *0 = Disabled (default)
*1 = Enabled, Cumulus will use 'active' FTP mode instead of the default 'passive' mode. You should only select active mode if you are having problems with FTP uploads.
|-
|-
| TempChangeAlarmEmail=0
| Copy-airquality=0
| (always)
| [FTP site]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.12.0
| Release 3.11.0
| ^
| Alarm Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Temperature changes by:
| airquality.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^ have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
|-
| TempChangeAlarmLatch=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.2
| Alarm Settings
| Temperature changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the airquality.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| TempChangeAlarmLatchHours=24
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have an air quality sensor)
| (always)
|-  
| [Alarms]
| Copy-alldailydegdaydata=0
| Release 3.11.2
| [FTP site]
| Alarm Settings
| Release 3.12.0
| Temperature changes by:
| ^
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; Copy
|-
| TempChangeAlarmNotify=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Alarm Settings
| Temperature changes by:
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailydegdaydata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| TempChangeAlarmSet=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (always)
|-  
| [Alarms]
| Copy-alldailyhumdata=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| [FTP site]
| Alarm Settings
| Release 3.12.0
| Temperature changes by:
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if outside temperature rapidly changes (in legacy Cumulus this was taking trend for the last hour, the developer has not specified what period applies for MX) by, or more than, the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| TempChangeAlarmSound=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (always)
|-
| [Alarms]
| Copy-alldailypressdata=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| [FTP site]
| Alarm Settings
| Release 3.12.0
| Temperature changes by:
| ^
| 0 (disabled)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; Copy
|-
| TempChangeAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| within 3.2.0 to 3.5.4
| Alarm Settings
| Temperature changes by:
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
| UpgradeAlarmEmail=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0
| Alarm Settings
| Cumulus upgrade available
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Email''', and all the email settings marked ^  have been completed, an alarm will be sent if an HTTP upload fails
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| UpgradeAlarmLatch=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (always)
|-  
| [Alarms]
| Copy-alldailyraindata=0
| Release 3.11.2
| [FTP site]
| Alarm Settings
| Release 3.12.0
| Cumulus upgrade available
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Latches''', an alarm will be maintained (latched) for a user configurable number of hours (see next parameter)
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| UpgradeAlarmLatchHours=24
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (always)
|-  
| [Alarms]
| Copy-alldailysolardata=0
| Release 3.11.2
| [FTP site]
| Alarm Settings
| Release 3.12.0
| Cumulus upgrade available
| ^
| 24 (default set only since release 3.9.6)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Use the spin button to select the number of hours (specified in '''Latch h(ou)rs''' column) that the "latch" is maintained if previous setting is set to 1 (tick on settings page)
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; Copy
|-
| UpgradeAlarmNotify=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.9.3
| Alarm Settings
| Cumulus upgrade available
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Notify'', MX will show the status of this alarm on the [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Dashboard|'''Dashboard''' page of the interface]]
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailysolardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-
| UpgradeAlarmSet=0
| Copy-alldailytempdata=0
| (always)
| [FTP site]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.12.0
| Release 3.9.3
| ^
| Alarm Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Cumulus upgrade available
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Enable''', the alarm will be triggered if outside temperature rapidly changes (in legacy Cumulus this was taking trend for the last hour, the developer has not specified what period applies for MX) by, or more than, the selected '''Value''' in earlier parameter
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| UpgradeAlarmSound=0
| Copy-alldailywinddata=0
| (always)
| [FTP site]
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.12.0
| Release ???
| ^
| Alarm Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Cumulus upgrade available
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| If tick '''Play sound''', if the alarm is triggered, then the file specified in next parameter will be played
|-
| UpgradeAlarmSoundFile=alarm.mp3
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release ???
| Alarm Settings
| Cumulus upgrade available
| alarm.mp3
| Specify a file name for a music file stored in the CumulusMX\interface\sounds or CumulusMX/interface/sounds folder
|-
| UseHTML=0
| (always)
| [Alarms]
| Release 3.11.0
| Alarm Settings
| '''Email uses HTML text formatting'''
| 0 (UTF-8 plain text)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you wish to use HTML encoding format for your customised emails
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you are happy to use the default emails text in UTF-8 plain text encoding
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| User=
| Copy-alltempsumdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| ^
| [SMTP]
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Release 3.11.0
| alldailytempsumdata.json &rarr; Copy
| Internet Settings &rarr; Email Server Settings
| 0 (disabled)
| Username
| Simple tick or not
| (blank)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailytempsumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Text box where you enter user name needed to authenticate with your SMTP email server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|}
 
==Charts==
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} Charts have evolved rapidly in MX development, this table needs verification by somebody who uses the functionality documented here. Can you be the contributor to bring it up to date?
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| Copy-availabledata=0
!style="width:100px" | File Section
| [FTP site]
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| Release 3.12.0
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| ^ (once only)
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
!style="width:20px" | Default
| availabledata.json  &rarr; Copy
!style="width:600px" | Description
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[availabledata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| GraphHours=24
| Copy-dailyrain=0
| [Graphs]
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.12.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs
| ^
| Graph hours
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| 24 (2 rolling days worth of values)
| dailyrain.json &rarr; Copy
| For those plots that show values (if available) minute by minute, how many days back to go. Some people prefer to set this to 48 or 96, that means uploading a lot more data in the [[:Category:JSON_Files|.json files]], but it shows more on charts
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| AppTempVisible=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| [Graphs]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
|-
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Copy-dailytemp=0
| Apparent temperature
| [FTP site]
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Release 3.12.0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Australian Apparent Temperature plotted on Charts
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[dailytemp.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Copy-graphconfig=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| graphconfig.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[graphconfig.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| BaseTemperature1=
| Copy-humdata=0
| [GrowingDD] and [TempSum]
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.12.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| ^
| Base temperature #1
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Depends on selected temperature units (not quite same)
| humdata.json &rarr; Copy
* (Celsius) (equivalent to 41 <sup>o</sup>Fahrenheit)
| 0 (disabled)
* (Fahrenheit) 40 (equivalent to 4.44 <sup>o</sup>Celsius)
| Simple tick or not
| Base temperature for series 1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[humdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| BaseTemperature2=
|-
| [GrowingDD] and [TempSum]
| Copy-pressdata=0
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| Release 3.12.0
| Base temperature #1
| ^
| Depends on selected temperature units (equivalent)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
* (Celsius) 10
| pressdata.json &rarr; Copy
* (Fahrenheit) 50
| 0 (disabled)
| Base temperature for series 2
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[pressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Cap30C=1
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| [GrowingDD]
|-
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
| Copy-raindata=0
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| [FTP site]
| Cap GDD at 30°C / 86°F
| Release 3.12.0
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| ^
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want growing degree days capped and not incremented at high temperatures (threshold shown in setting name)  
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|-
| raindata.json &rarr; Copy
| ChartMaxDays=31
| 0 (disabled)
| [Graphs]
| Simple tick or not
| Legacy Cumulus
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[raindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Graph Days
|-  
| 31 (daily values)
| Copy-solardata=0
| For those plots that show recent daily values, this states how many of them to plot
| [FTP site]
|-
| Release 3.12.0
| Colour0=#058DC7, Colour1=#50B432, Colour2=#ED561B, Colour3=#DDDF00, Colour4=#24CBE5, and Colour5=#64E572
| ^
| [Select-a-Chart]
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Release 3.9.7 - b3107
| solardata.json &rarr; Copy
| ???
| 0 (disabled)
| ???
| Simple tick or not
| Hex colours as shown in parameter list
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[solardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Colour of line used for plotting the respective series
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-  
| DailyAvgTempVisible=1
| Copy-sunhours=0
| [Graphs]
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.12.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| ^
| Daily Average Temperature
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| sunhours.json &rarr; Copy
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily (integrated) Average temperature plotted on Charts
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| DailyMaxTempVisible=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[sunhours.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| [Graphs]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable  (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
|-  
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Copy-tempdata=0
| Daily Maximum Temperature
| [FTP site]
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Release 3.12.0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily Maximum temperature plotted on Charts
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| DailyMinTempVisible=1
| tempdata.json &rarr; Copy
| [Graphs]
| 0 (disabled)
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[tempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Daily Minimum Temperature
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
|-  
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Daily Minimum temperature plotted on Charts
| Copy-wdirdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
| DPVisible=1
| Release 3.12.0
| [Graphs]
| ^
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| wdirdata.json &rarr; Copy
| Dew point
| 0 (disabled)
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Dew Point plotted on Charts
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[wdirdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| FeelsLikeVisible=1
|-  
| [Graphs]
| Copy-websitedata=0
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Release 3.12.0
| Dew point
| ^
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Feels Like Temperature plotted on Charts
| websitedata.json &rarr; Copy
|-
| 0 (disabled)
| GrowingDegreeDaysVisible1=1
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]
| [Graphs]  
 
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Degree Days
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the resulting websitedata.json to your local web server
| Growing Degree Days series #1
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
|-  
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see series 1 plotted on Charts
| Copy-winddata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| winddata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[winddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Copy-wxnow=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^ (disabled)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| wxnow.txt &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy that file to your local web server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| CopyMoonImage=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
| Copy Moon image file
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy moon image file to your local web server (need to select "Generate Moon Image" see '''MoonImageEnabled=''' too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| GrowingDegreeDaysVisible2=1
| Create-airquality=0
| [Graphs]  
| [FTP site]
| Release3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Degree Days
| ^
| Growing Degree Days series #2
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| airquality.json &rarr; Generate
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see series 2 plotted on Charts
| 1 (enabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| HIVisible=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the airquality.json file
| [Graphs]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
|-  
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Create-alldailydegdaydata=0
| Dew point
| [FTP site]
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Release 3.10.0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see USA Heat Index plotted on Charts
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| HumidexVisible=1
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; Generate
| [Graphs]
| 1 (enabled)
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailydegdaydata.json]] file
| Dew point
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
|-  
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Canadian Humidity Index plotted on Charts
| Create-alldailyhumdata=0
|-
 
| InHumVisible=1
| [FTP site]
| [Graphs]
| Release 3.10.0
|  MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| ^
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Humidity Data
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Dew point
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; Generate
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Indoor Relative Humidity plotted on Charts
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file
| InTempVisible=1
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| [Graphs]
|-  
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Create-alldailypressdata=0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| [FTP site]
| Dew point
| Release 3.10.0
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| ^
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Indoor Temperature plotted on Charts
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|-
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; Generate
| OutHumVisible=1
| 1 (enabled)
| [Graphs]
| Simple tick or not
|  MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Humidity Data
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Dew point
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Outdoor Relative Humidity plotted on Charts
|-
| Series0= to Series5=
| [Select-a-Chart]
| Release 3.9.7 - b3107
| ???
| ???
| 0 (disabled)
| Name of parameter to plot (in series 0 to 5) e.g. "Pressure", "Wind Gust", "Temperature", "Rainfall Rate", "Wind Bearing"
|-
| SolarVisible=1
| [Graphs]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| UV Index
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Solar radiation plotted on Charts
|-  
|-  
| SunshineVisible=1
| Create-alldailyraindata=0
| [Graphs]
| [FTP site]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| ^
| UV Index
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; Generate
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Sunshine Hours plotted on Charts
| 1 (enabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| TempSumVisible0=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file
| [TempSum]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
|-  
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Create-alldailysolardata=0
| Annual Temperature Sum 0
| [FTP site]
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Release 3.10.0
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum series 0 plotted on Charts
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| TempSumVisible1=1
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; Generate
| [TempSum]
| 1 (enabled)
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailysolarydata.json]] file
| Annual Temperature Sum #1
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
|-  
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum minus baseline 1  plotted on Charts
| Create-alldailytempdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
| TempSumVisible2=1
| Release 3.10.0
| [TempSum]
| ^
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; Generate
| Annual Temperature Sum #2
| 1 (enabled)
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Annual Temperature Sum minus baseline 2 plotted on Charts
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| TempSumYearStart=
| [TempSum]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Station Settings &rarr; Annual Temperature Sum
| Year summation starting month
| Depends on hemisphere
* (Northern hemisphere) 1 = January
* (Southern hemisphere) 7 = July
| Enter as a number the month for which (on first of that month) annual temperature summation is reset to zero
|-
| TempVisible=1
| [Graphs]
|  MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| Dew point
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Outdoor Temperature plotted on Charts
|-
| UVVisible=1
| [Graphs]
| MX release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Solar Data
| UV Index
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Ultra Violet Index plotted on Charts
|-  
|-  
| WCVisible=1
| Create-alldailywinddata=0
| [Graphs]
| [FTP site]
| MX release 3.7.0 - b3089
| Release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Graphs &rarr; Visibility &rarr; Temperature Data
| ^
| Dew point
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Ticked (shown in Cumulus.ini as 1)
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; Generate
| Simple tick or not indicating whether you want to see Wind Chill plotted on charts
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-alltempsumdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| alldailytempsumdata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailytempsumdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-availabledata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| availabledata.json  &rarr; Generate
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[availabledata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| YearStarts=
| Create-dailyrain=0
| [GrowingDD]
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.11.0 - b3129
| Release 3.10.0
| Station Settings &rarr; Growing Degree Days
| ^
| Growing season starting month
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Depends on hemisphere
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
* (Northern hemisphere) 1 = January
| 1 (enabled)
* (Southern hemisphere) 7 = July
| Simple tick or not
| Enter as a number the month for which (on first of that month) Growing degree days is reset to zero
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailyrain.json]] file
|}
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
|-
==Data Logging==
| Create-dailytemp=0
 
| [FTP site]
* Available in all Cumulus releases
| Release 3.10.0
* File Section is [Station]
| ^
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|-
| dailytemp.json &rarr; File Transfer
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| 1 (enabled)
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
| Simple tick or not
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
!style="width:20px" | Default
|-
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Create-graphconfig=0
|-
| [FTP site]
| DataLogInterval=2
| Release 3.10.0
| (Always)
| ^ (once only)
| Station settings &rarr; General Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Log interval
| graphconfig.json &rarr; Generate
| 2 (10 minutes)
| 1 (enabled)
| Drop-down:
| Simple tick or not
* 0 = 1 minute between MX logs into the one to three [[Monthly_log_files]] (i.e. [[Standard log files]], and optionally [[Extra Sensor Files]], [[Air_Link_Log.txt]])
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[graphconfig.json]] file
* 1 = 5 minutes between MX logging lines
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* 2 = 10 minutes between MX logging lines
|-  
* 3 = 15 minutes between MX logging lines
| Create-humdata=0
* 4 = 20 minutes between MX logging lines
| [FTP site]
* 5 = 30 minutes between MX logging lines
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
| LogExtraSensors=0
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| (Depends on station type) Only from Release 3.12.0
| humdata.json &rarr; Generate
| Station settings &rarr; Common Options
| 1 (enabled)
| Extra sensors
| Simple tick or not
| 0 (disabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[humdata.json]] file
|Simple tick or not
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station can output readings to be logged in [[Extra Sensor Files]]
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you have nothing to log to Extra Sensor Files.
| Create-pressdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| pressdat.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[pressdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-raindata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| raindata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[raindata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Create-solardata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| solardata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[solardata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-
| NoSensorCheck=0
| Create-tempdata=1
| (not yet on a settings page)
| [FTP site]
| (not known)
| Release 3.10.0
| (not known)
| ^
| 0 (normal)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Boolean:
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Generate
* 0 = MX will stop if any of the minimum set of sensors listed below fails
| 1 (enabled)
* 1 = MX will continue to run, even if any of the minimum set of sensors listed below fails
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
Minimum set of sensors:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
# Current air temperature
|-
# Current Relative Humidity
| Create-sunhours=0
# At least one wind speed
| [FTP site]
# Current air pressure (absolute or sea-level)
| Release 3.10.0
Cumulus will stop processing any information from a weather station unless the above 4 source values are being supplied and reveal they are being updated (failure is set is after a total of 6 unsuccessful consecutive attempts to read each of these).
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| RainDayThreshold=-1
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Generate
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| 1 (enabled)
| Depends on release:
| Simple tick or not
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable  (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| Rain day threshold
|-
| -1 (that represents 0.2 mm or 0.01 inches)
| Create-tempdata=0
| The amount of rainfall that must be collected before MX treats today as a wet day
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| tempdata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[tempdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Create-wdirdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| wdirdata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[wdirdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-websitedata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| websitedata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]


''The intention is this will represent more than one tip, as the first tip might contain some rain from an earlier day''
Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to process the '''websitedataT.json''' file into websitedata.json
| RolloverHour=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (Always)
|-  
| Station settings &rarr; Log Rollover
| Create-winddata=0
| Time
| [FTP site]
| 0 (midnight)
| Release 3.10.0
| Radio type selection:
| ^
* 0 = MX will do [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches midnight
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
* 1 = MX will do [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches 9 a.m. local standard/winter time
| winddata.json &rarr; Generate
|-
| SnowDepthHour=0
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| Depends on release:
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Snow depth hour
| 0 (midnight)
| Spin selector of 0 to 23: Defines hour from which entries in [[Weather Diary]] for current calendar day are used. Prior to this hour the weather diary will be searched for Calendar yesterday
|-
| StartDate=
| (with warning: "Here be dragons!")
| Station Settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| Records Began date
| (Set when you first use Cumulus)
| Format used is determined by locale used for running MX.  If this date is edited, keep to same format. MX generally (see [[Calculate_Missing_Values#CreateMissing.exe]] for exceptions) ignores any data file entries prior to this date.
|-
| UseDataLogger=1
| (probably determined by station type)
| (not known)
| (not known)
| 1 (enabled)
| 1 (enabled)
|Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station has its own storage, so MX can do a catch up when it first starts and read any "archive data"
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[winddata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if your weather station has no storage, and therefore MX cannot capture any readings when it is not running
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Use10amInSummer=1
| Create-wxnow=0
| (Always)
| [FTP site]
| Station settings &rarr; Log Rollover
| Release 3.10.0
| Use 10am in Summer
| ^ (disabled)
| 1 (normal)
| (depends on release)
| Tick box:
* (releases 3.10.0 to 3.11.4) Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Settings
* 0 = If "Daylight Saving Time" (DST) applies in Summer,
* (release 3.12.0 on) Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
** If rollover time is midnight, then rolls over at midnight local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
| wxnow.txt &rarr; Generate
** If rollover time is 9 a.m., MX is to use 9 am local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
* 1 = Normal behaviour:
** If rollover time is midnight, then rolls over at midnight local time, regardless of whether DST is in operation or not
** If MX would do  [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|an end of day process]] when the time (on Weather Station if it provides time) reaches 9 a.m. local standard/winter time, then it waits until 10 a.m. local time while DST is in effect
|}
 
 
==Debugging==
 
* Available from beta MX.
* File Section is [Station]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:300px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
| Logging=1
| Depends on release installed:
# Alternatives:
#* (Releases 3.0.0 to 3.9.8) Close Cumulus MX, then edit Cumulus.ini configuration file, and add a line in the [Station] section: Logging = 1, then restart Cumulus MX.
#* (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.9.3) Station Settings &rarr Options
# (Release 3.9.4 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
| Debug logging
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| This adds extra information about data transfers between your weather station and MX.  
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to  generate a [[wsnow.txt]] file
It was introduced originally for Davis stations only, but later (can someone insert here the relevant release) extended to cover more stations.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-  
| DataLogging=1
| DeleteBeforeUpload=0
| Depends on release installed:
| [FTP site]
# Alternatives:
| legacy Cumulus
#* (Releases 3.0.0 to 3.9.8) Close Cumulus MX, then edit Cumulus.ini configuration file, and add a line in the [Station] section: DataLogging = 1, then restart Cumulus MX.
| (always)
#* (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.9.3) Station Settings &rarr Options
| (depends on release)
# (Release 3.9.4 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4) Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
* (release 3.12.0 on)   Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| Debug logging
| Delete before upload
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| This adds extra information about both data transfers initiated from MX, and all the internal MX processes.
| Simple tick or not
|}
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to issue instruction to delete existing file (with same name) on the web server before it creates the new file
 
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
== Display Options ==
 
* File Section is '''[Display]'''
* MX Section is '''Station Settings &rarr; Display Options'''
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| Directory=
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| [FTP site]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Legacy Cumulus
!style="width:20px" | Default
| (always)
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Remote FTP Directory
| (blank)
| Directory (including path) on your server to which FTP (if 'Enabled' is enabled) will upload the files.
*value is left Blank, default, the root position specified by ftp server
*A path from the starting point as the position specified by ftp server
 
Not used for ExtraRemoteNN parameters
|-
| DisableEPSV=0
| [FTP site]
| Beta Release 3.0.0  build 3045
| No
| Still Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
| (n/a )
| 0
| *0 = Disabled (default)
*1 = Enabled, to use Extended Passive FTP-mode
|-
|-
| DisplaySolarData=0
| DisableFtpsExplicit=0
| ??? 3.10.0 ???
| [FTP site]
| Display Solar data
| Release  3.4.0 - Build 3064
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| No
| Simple tick or not
| Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display solar data in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards)
| (n/a )
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to suppress the table cells that would display solar data
| 0
|-
| (change value following attribute)
| DisplayUvData=0
*0 = Disabled (default) use FTPS Explicit mode
| ??? 3.10.0 ???
*1 = Enabled, to use FTPS Implicit mode
| Display UV-I data  
|-
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)  
| Enabled=1
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always) Controls whether ^ settings have "File Transfer" option enabled
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| Enable file transfer of standard files
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to enable file transfer of standard files (see rows marked ^ for further selections)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| EnableLocalCopy=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always) Controls whether ^ settings have "Copy" option enabled
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display ultra-violet intensity data in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to enable copying of files (see rows marked ^ for further selections)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to suppress the table cells that would display UV intensity data
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| NumWindRosePoints=16
| EnableRealtime=1
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| Number of wind rose points
| (always)
| 16
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Drop-down determining if weather station bearing supplied by weather station is to be converted to 8 or 16 compass directions (i.e. whether to include or exclude (in English) NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW, and NNW
| Enable Realtime
* 8 points
| 0 (disabled)
* 16 points
| Simple tick or not
Despite what it says in the hint on the settings page, leave at default whichever weather station type you use, unless this actually causes you a problem. The parameter was introduced by Steve Loft.  Davis wind vanes use a potentiometer to measure wind direction so send Cumulus a bearing that can vary continuously between 1 and 360 degrees. Fine Offset wind vanes use magnetic switches that depend on the magnet under the moving part selecting two switches in the fixed part for the vane being exactly in-between compass directions, and selecting one switch for the main 8 directions and slightly away from the main directions; so they have a bias against sending Cumulus the in-between directions.
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate a timer that will permit real time actions
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| UseApparent=1
| Ftp-airquality=0
| ??? MX 3.6.0 or 3.10.0 ???
| [FTP site]
| Use Apparent Temperature
| Release 3.10.0
| Ticked (shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| airquality.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the airquality.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have an air quality sensor)
|-
| Ftp-alldailydegdaydata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display apparent temperature in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards) for consistency with Cumulus prior to release 3.6.0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the alldailydegdaydata.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to display feels like temperature  in tables shown on the [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information|web pages]] provided in [[Webfiles folder|webfiles folder]] (from release 3.10.0 onwards) for consistency with Cumulus from release 3.6.0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|}
|-
 
| Ftp-alldailyhumdata=0
==Extra Web Files==
| [FTP site]
 
| Release 3.10.0
There are 100 occurrences of each parameter in Cumulus.ini, and therefore each parameter has a base name followed by numbers 0 to 99.
| ^
 
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
The settings interface presents the rows on multiple pages, the rows are not numbered, so you have to do some counting to work out which row in the admin interface page corresponds with which parameter in Cumulus.ini file.
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
 
| 1 (enabled)
'''You MUST restart MX after any changes in this section, before the new settings take effect.'''
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| Ftp-alldailypressdata=0
!style="width:100px" | Label on Settings page
| [FTP site]
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Release 3.10.0
!style="width:800px" | Description
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|style="background:lightgray;"|[FTP site]  
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|
| 1 (enabled)
|
| Simple tick or not
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|ExtraLocal0= to ExtraLocal99=
|-
|Local File Name
| Ftp-alldailyraindata=0
|(empty)
| [FTP site]
|You can enter:
| Release 3.10.0
* A relative path name, with respect to the "CumulusMX" root folder
| ^
** e.g.  '''./data/dayfile.txt''' (Note: this is the [[Daily_Summary|daily summary log file]], see link for how it can be used on a web server)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
** e.g. '''./webMX/betel_monthlyrecord_liteMXT.html''' (Note: this is a third party [[Cumulus_template_file|template file]] - see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7500 Alternative Monthly Extremes using <#webtag>s]
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; File Transfer
** e.g. '''./web/trendsT.htm''' (Note: That file is not part of default web site any more, but serves as another example
| 1 (enabled)
* A full path name for a file on the computer running MX
| Simple tick or not
** e.g. '''/home/pi/documents/myFile'''
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
** e.g. '''C:\Users\Public\Documents\working.txt'''
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
*You can place any of the following special tags into the entry
|-
** These should be typed as shown on their own
| Ftp-alldailysolardata=0
*** '''<noaayearfile>''' and '''<noaamonthfile>''' these respectively represent latest yearly and latest monthly reports 
| [FTP site]
***  '''<currentlogfile>''',  '''<currentextralogfile>''', and '''<airlinklogfile>''' these respectively represent [[Standard_log_files|standard]], [[Extra_Sensor_Files| extra sensor]], and [[Air_Link_Log.txt|Davis AirLink air quality monitor]] log files  e.g. ExtraLocal3=<currentlogfile>
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
|ExtraRemote0= to ExtraRemote99=
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|Destination Filename
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|(empty)
| 0 (disabled)
|Defines where MX is to upload file to
| Simple tick or not
* If file transfer is requested (see below), the file path should be expressed starting at the FTP/FTPS/SFTP root
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailysolardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
**I can't tell you what the file path is for your web server, but I can give a couple of examples to steer you
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
*** e.g. httpdocs/dayfile.txt
|-
*** e.g. public_html/thismonthyear.htm
| Ftp-alldailytempdata=0
* If the FTP is not ticked, the file path should be full path for a file on the computer running MX
| [FTP site]
** e.g. /var/www/html/weather/images/moon.png could be destinatation for uploading the MX generated moon image to a Linux hosted [[Your_Own_Server|server]]
| Release 3.10.0
** e.g. /var/www/html/weather/webfilesMX/tempdata.json for uploading one of the [[:Category:JSON_Files|files with graph data]] to a Linux hosted [[Your_Own_Server|server]]
| ^
*You can place any of the following special tags into the entry
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
** These should be typed as shown as part of the destination path, note that they can be used:
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
*** either to represent the final filename part of the path e.g. ExtraRemote3=/var/www/html/weather/monthly/<currentlogfile>
| 1 (enabled)
*** or to modify a filename, so it becomes unique to a particular month e.g. ExtraRemote0=/var/www/html/weather/cumulus_generated/savedFiles/web_tags_real_time_<currentlogfile>.inc
| Simple tick or not
** '''<noaayearfile>''' and '''<noaamonthfile>''' these respectively represent latest yearly and latest monthly reports
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
**  '''<currentlogfile>''',  '''<currentextralogfile>''', and '''<airlinklogfile>''' these respectively represent [[Standard_log_files|standard]], [[Extra_Sensor_Files| extra sensor]], and [[Air_Link_Log.txt|Davis AirLink air quality monitor]] log files
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
|ExtraProcess0= to ExtraProcess99=
| Ftp-alldailywinddata=0
|Process
| [FTP site]
|0
| Release 3.10.0
|Simple tick or not
| ^
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if the local file is a [[Cumulus_template_file|template file]], see [[Customised_templates#What_is_meant_by_.27Cumulus_processes_templates.27|here]] for full explanation of '''Process'''
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want local file uploaded with existing content
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|-
| 1 (enabled)
|ExtraRealtime0= to ExtraRealtime99=
| Simple tick or not
|Realtime
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|Simple tick or not
|-  
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if
| Ftp-alltempsumdata=0
*# See [[#Realtime Settings]], you must have "Enable realtime" ticked, and defined an interval there
| [FTP site]
*# Uploads the file to destination specified at interval defined
| Release 3.10.0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want uploading to happen at a different interval (e.g. [[#Interval Settings|Standard interval]])
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|ExtraFTP0= to ExtraFTP99=
| alltempsumdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|FTP
| 1 (enabled)
|1
| Simple tick or not
|Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alltempsumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to use the FTP protocol specified in [[#Web/FTP Site]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if the remote file is on the computer running MX and a simple Copy File is required
|-  
| Ftp-availabledata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| availabledata.json  &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[availabledata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
|ExtraUTF0= to ExtraUTF99=
| Ftp-dailyrain=0
|UTF-8
| [FTP site]
|1
| Release 3.10.0
|Please see [[Reports_folder#Encoding|technical guidance on encoding]]
| ^
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for default, modern files use UTF-8 encoding, this can display an extended range of characters
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
*If unticked (0 appears in file), then iso-8859-1 encoding is used
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Ftp-dailytemp=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Ftp-graphconfig=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| graphconfig.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[graphconfig.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
|ExtraBinary0= to ExtraBinary99=
| Ftp-humdata=0
|Binary
| [FTP site]
|0
| Release 3.10.0
|Simple tick or not
| ^
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your file is e.g. an image file (e.g. moon.png)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if the file is text, HTML, PHP script, JSON, JavaScript
| humdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|-
| 1 (enabled)
|ExtraEOD0= to ExtraEOD99=
| Simple tick or not
|End of Day
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[humdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|Simple tick or not
|-  
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your file is to be uploaded during the [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|End of Day process]]
| Ftp-pressdata=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want uploading to happen at a different interval (e.g. [[#Interval Settings|Standard interval]])
| [FTP site]
|}
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
== Location==
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
 
| pressdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus
| 1 (enabled)
* File Section is [Station]
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[pressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| Ftp-raindata=0
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| [FTP site]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Release 3.10.0
!style="width:20px" | Default
| ^
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|-
| raindata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Altitude=0
| 1 (enabled)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| Simple tick or not
| Altitude
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[raindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| 0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| The height above mean sea level where the (pressure) sensor is positioned
|-
|-
| Ftp-solardata=0
| AltitudeInFeet=1
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| Release 3.10.0
| Altitude Units
| ^
| Default depends on release:
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
# Legacy until 3.11.4: 1 (labelled as feet)
| solardata.json &rarr; File Transfer
# From 3.12.0: 0 (labelled metres)
| 0 (disabled)
| Radio Setting
| Simple tick or not
* feet  (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[solardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* metres (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-  
| LocName=
| Ftp-sunhours=0
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| [FTP site]
| Name
| Release 3.10.0
| (empty)
| ^
| A short name for the location
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|-
| sunhours.json &rarr; File Transfer
| LocDesc=
| 0 (disabled)
| Station Settings &rarr; Location
| Simple tick or not
| Description
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[sunhours.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| (empty)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| A longer description for the location
|-  
|-
| Ftp-tempdata=0
| "Latitude=0" and "LatTxt="
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Location &rarr; Latitude
| Release 3.10.0
| "Degrees", "Minutes", "Seconds", and "Hemisphere &rarr; North or South"
| ^
| (blank)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| The selections made on this Settings Page sub-section will place the appropriate content in the two parameters in the file
| tempdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
|-
| 1 (enabled)
| "Longitude=0" and "LongTxt="
| Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Location &rarr; Longitude
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[tempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| "Degrees", "Minutes", "Seconds", and "Hemisphere &rarr; East or West"
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| (blank)
|-  
| The selections made on this Settings Page sub-section will place the appropriate content in the two parameters in the file
| Ftp-wdirdata=0
|}
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| wdirdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[wdirdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Ftp-websitedata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| websitedata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]


==Optional Structured Query Language Settings==
Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the resulting websitedata.json to your local web server
SQL is structured in the sense that keywords have to appear in the correct order, and there are rules about which words are mandatory. SQL is not just for running queries that read database tables, it can create database tables, give and revoke permissions, and do many more maintenance type tasks. SQL is a language in that each variant of SQL has a vocabulary and set of rules that are specific to that database server, although there is a sub-set, that is set by "ANSI", of words and constructions that all SQL dialects should obey.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
MX uses two types of SQL. One type is for SQLite database (see [[Cumulusmx.db]] and [[Diary.db]], that type stores data in rows that are numbered, and columns that are named. In a retrieval query you can sort ascending/descending on value in any column. You can select a row by specifyimg content, but that gets translated into a row number to actually determine what is updated.
 
The file section '''[MySQL]''' is about a different type of database (i.e. Maria database, or Oracle MySQL) these implement a relational database that has to satisfy the rule that all data appears in a table with rows and columns. The columns have a particular order, but there is no control over the order of rows, so you can't specify a row number, you either specify a primary key that identifies a particular row, or you specify that what is returned from query should be sorted in an ascending/descending order of the value in a specified column.
 
Both "CumulusMX.exe" and "ExportToMySQL.exe" make use of the following settings:
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Executable
| Ftp-winddata=0
!style="width:100px" | Function
| [FTP site]
!style="width:300px" | Description
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
| CumulusMX.exe
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Data Logs menu
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| An option "Update MySQL on Edit" allows you to decide whether MX issues SQL when you edit a data log or "dayfile.txt", so the same edit is made to the corresponding database table, provided that the table has been created with the default name and has the column names defined by default.
| 1 (enabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
! rowspan="7" |CumulusMX.exe
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; General Options
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| An option "Buffer commands on failure" allows you to decide whether MX tries to run SQL commands again, if they fail. IMPORTANT: This is to cope with failure due to the database server going down; the option should not be ticked if you are testing new "custom" SQL and may have made a mistake in the coding. You need to ensure the SQL is either generated by MX as a fixed query, or has been tested and is correct synta before considering this option.
|-  
|-
| Ftp-wxnow=0
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Realtime.txt Upload
| [FTP site]
| An option that can be enabled that automatically updates a "Realtime" table, each new row is effectively what is stored in the file [[realtime.txt]].
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (disabled)
| (depends on release)
* (release 3.10.0 to 3.11.4) Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on) Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| wxnow.txt &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer that file to your local web server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Dayfile.txt Upload
| ForumURL=
| An option that can be enabled that at end of day ensures that a new line is added to [[dayfile.txt]] and a new row (with similar data) is inserted into a "Dayfile" table.
| [Web Site]
|-
| Legacy Cumulus
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Monthly log file Upload
| (always)
| An option that can be enabled that automatically updates a "Monthly" table, every time a new line is added to the [[Standard_log_files|standard data log file]].
| (depends on release)
|-
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Custom Upload - seconds interval
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Miscellaneous
| An option that can be enabled that runs some predetermined SQL every time the specified number of seconds has elapsed.
| Forum URL
|-
| (blank)
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Custom Upload - minutes interval
| Left blank to allow you to choose format
| An option that can be enabled that runs some predetermined SQL every time the specified number of minutes has elapsed.
|-
| Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings &rarr; Custom Upload - at rollover
| An option that can be enabled that runs some predetermined SQL just after dayfile.txt has had a new line, but before other end-of-day actions occur.
|-
| ExportToMySQL.exe
| parameters to utility
| Determine which file read (and therefore which table updated, using table names set in table name parameters explained in next table)
|}
WARNING: The SQL syntax for [https://mysqlconnector.net/ "My SQL Connector"] used by .NET and therefore by MX, differs in various ways from the MySQL Client or MARIA db syntax.


Here is an example of what might be input as "predetermined SQL", showing how you can use conditionals and web tags:
3.10.0 Default web pages use "<a href=\"https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/index.php\">forum</a>"
<pre>
INSERT IGNORE INTO table_name_1 (primary_key, column_name_1, column_name_2 ....) VALUES ('<#primary_key>', '<#web tag_name_1 modifier_1>', '<#web tag_name_2 modifier_2>'  ....);


 
Some alternative URL examples:
BEGIN NOT ATOMIC
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/index.php (for above example in default web pages)
IF '<#web tag>' = '---' THEN
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk
simpler query to run if something not numeric;
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/search.php?search_id=active_topics
ELSE
UPDATE table_name_2 SET  column_name_1 = '<#web tag_name_1 modifier_1>', column_name_2 =  '<#web tag_name_2 modifier_2>'  ....   WHERE primary_key = '<#primary_key>';
END IF
END;
</pre>
 
* Introduced in Cumulus MX 3.0.0 beta
* File Section is [MySQL]
* MX page is Settings menu &rarr; MySQL settings
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| FTPlogging=0
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| [FTP site]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Legacy Cumulus
!style="width:20px" | Default
| FTP logging
!style="width:600px" | Description
| Depends on release installed:
|-
# (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.10.5) Internet Settings &rarr;  &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
| BufferOnFailure=0
# (Releases 3.11.0 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
| General Options
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
| Buffer commands on failure
| (n/a)
| 0 = ignore errors
| (n/a)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to store any commands that fail (see note above), and try them again (stored commands lost if MX is stopped)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX in standard FTP mode add output to [[ftplog.txt]].
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to ignore any errors
to issue instruction to the web server so it creates the new file with a new name and then renames it to the required name  (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable updates to '''ftplog.txt'''
For other types of file transfer (STTP, FTPS), any extra diagnostic information appears in latest log in [[MXdiags folder]]
|-
|-
| CustomMySqlMinutesCommandString=
| FTPRename=1
| Custom Upload - minutes interval
| [FTP site]
| "SQL command" only shown if next parameter is ticked
| Legacy Cumulus
| (empty)
| (always)
| See "predetermined SQL" example above
| (depends on release)
|-
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
| CustomMySqlMinutesEnabled=0
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| Custom Upload - minutes interval
| FTP rename
| Custom Minutes Enabled
| 1 (enabled)
| 0 = don't display other options
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want the previous and next options to be displayed, and actioned
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to issue instruction to the web server so it creates the new file with a new name and then renames it to the required name  (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is not to action the previous and next settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
The chief advantage of using rename is that it minimises the time that the web server cannot serve a file (while it is being updated)
|-
|-
| CustomMySqlMinutesIntervalIndex=6
| Host=
| Custom Upload - minutes interval
| [FTP site]
| Interval:
| Legacy Cumulus
| 6 = 10 minutes
| (always)  
| Drop-down list of predetermined intervals:
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
* 0 = 1 minute
| Host name
* 1 = 2 minutes
| (blank)
* 2 = 3 minutes
| This is either the name, or the IP address, of the ftp server to which you connect when you upload pages to your web site.
* 3 = 4 minutes
* 4 = 5 minutes
* 5 = 6 minutes
* 6 = 10 minutes
* 7 = 12 minutes
* 8 = 20 minutes
* 9 = 30 minutes
* 10 = 1 hour (60 minutes)
|-
| CustomMySqlRolloverCommandString=
| Custom Upload - at rollover
| "SQL command" only shown if next parameter is ticked
| (empty)
| See "predetermined SQL" example above
|-
|-
| CustomMySqlRolloverEnabled=0
| IncludeMoonImage=1
| Custom Upload - at rollover
| [FTP site]
| Custom Rollover Enabled
| Release 3.5.0
| 0 = don't display other options
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
| (FTP) Upload Moon image file
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want the previous and next options to be displayed, and actioned
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer moon image file to your local web server (need to select "Generate Moon Image" see '''MoonImageEnabled=''' too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is not to action the previous and next settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| CustomMySqlSecondsCommandString=
| IntervalFtpEnabled=1
| Custom Upload - seconds interval
| [FTP site]
| "SQL command" only shown if next parameter is ticked
| Release 3.12.0
| (empty)
| ??
| See "predetermined SQL" example above
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Settings
|-
| Enable file transfer update interval  
| CustomMySqlSecondsEnabled=0
| 1 (enabled)
| Custom Upload - seconds interval
| Custom Seconds Enabled
| 0 = don't display other options
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want the previous and next options to be displayed, and actioned
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to make standard interval file transfer actions
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is not to action the previous and next settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if either no web server, or have selected '''LocalCopyEnabled''' (see below)
|-
|-
| CustomMySqlSecondsInterval=10
| ListWebTags=0
| Custom Upload - seconds interval
| [Station]
| Interval (seconds):
| Legacy Cumulus
| 10
| Only from Release 3.12.0
| A number field, takes 1 to 59
| Depends on release:
|-
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
| Database=
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Server details
| Database name:
| (empty)
| A text field where you enter the name of the database your tables are to be created/updated in
|-
| DayfileMySqlEnabled=0
| Dayfile.txt upload
| Dayfile Enabled
| 0
| 0
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to at end of day ensure that a new line is added to [[dayfile.txt]] and a new row (with similar data) is inserted into a "Dayfile" table
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to create ''WebTags.txt'' file when Cumulus is restarted (contains an unordered list of all the tag names your Cumulus build will recognise and process)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is only to ensure that a new line is added to dayfile.txt
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| DayfileTable=
| LocalCopyEnabled=0
| Dayfile.txt upload
| [FTP site]
| Table name
| Release 3.12.0
| Dayfile
| (always)  
| Having defined this table, and saved the settings, click the "Create Dayfile" button to create the database table with the standard column names. If you change the name here, normal updates and "ExportToMySQl.exe"  will use the table name you define, but the option to update table when you edit "dayfile.txt" will fail (and if set to do so, keep failing as it repeats).
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
|-
| Enable local copy update interval
| Host=Localhost
| 0 (disabled)
| Server details
| Host name
| (empty)
| Set to whatever host name your database server has specified, if you host [[Your_Own_Server]], then you may be able to use "Localhost".
|-
| MonthlyMySqlEnabled=0
| Monthly logfile upload
| Monthly Log Enabled
| 0
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to at your standard logging interval ensure that a new line is added to [[Standard_log_files|standard data log file]] and a new row (with similar data) is inserted into a "Monthly" table.
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to make standard interval file copy actions
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is only to ensure that a new line is added to standard data log file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if either no web server, or have selected file transfer '''IntervalFtpEnabled''' (see previous)
|-
|-
| MonthlyTable=
| LocalCopyFolder=
| Monthly logfile upload
| [FTP site]
| Table name
| Release 3.12.0
| Monthly
| (always)
| Having defined this table, and saved the settings, click the "Create Monthly" button to create the database table with the standard column names. You might wish to change the name here once a year, to stop the database table getting enormous, if so you might name the table something like "standard2020".  If you change the name here, normal updates and "ExportToMySQl.exe"  will use the table name you define, but the option to update table when you edit "MMMyyyyLog.txt" will fail (and if set to do so, keep failing as it repeats).
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| (blank)
| Folder (including path) to which MX will copy the standard files (see rows marked ^ for further selections) if 'EnableLocalCopy' is enabled
|-
|-
| Pass=
| MoonImageEnabled=1
| Server details
| [Graphs]
| Password
| Release 3.5.0
| (empty)
| (always)
| Set to whatever password is used for update access with the database user name (see below)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
|-
| Generate Moon Image
| Port=3306
| ^ Default controlled by selection of default web site
| Server details
| Port number
| 3306
| The port related to the host name (defined above) for update access to your database server
|-
| RealtimeMySql1MinLimit=0
| Realtime.txt upload
| Limit Inserts:
| 0 = false
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)  
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to use System Drawing to modify CumulusMX/web/MoonBaseImage.png and create CumulusMX/web/moon.png
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)  
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you don't need MX to create a "moon.png"
See explanation beside and below setting
|-
|-
| RealtimeMySqlEnabled=0
| MoonImageSize=
| Realtime.txt upload
| [Graphs]
| Real time Enabled
| Release 3.5.0
| 0 = don't display other options
| (always)
| Simple tick or not
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to at your real time interval ensure that a new realtime.txt file is created and a new row (with similar data) is inserted into a "Realtime" table.
| Image size
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX is only to ensure that a new line is added to standard data log file
| ???
| Enter a size (in pixels) for the generated moon image (according to space on your web page)
|-
|-
| RealtimeRetention=
| Password=
| Realtime.txt upload
| [FTP site]
| '''Data Retention value''' and '''Data Retention unit'''
| Legacy Cumulus
| "7" and "Days"
| (always)
| The value field will take any number, the unit field is a dropdown:
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
* Seconds
| Password
* Minutes
| (blank)
* Hours
| The password for your FTP/SFTP/FTPS connection (masked out on settings page, shown in plain text in file)
* Days
* Weeks
* Months
Taken together, these determine the period for which rows are kept in the table named in "RealtimeTable", any row older than this specification will be deleted as part of the automatic SQL
|-
|-
| RealtimeTable=Realtime
| Port=21
| Realtime.txt upload
| [FTP site]
| Table name
| Legacy Cumulus
| Realtime
| (always)
| Having defined this table, and saved the settings, click the "Create Realtime" button to create the database table with the standard column names. Remember that you can tailor the contents of "realtime.txt", if you want non-standard columns in this table, you have to create the table yourself.
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| FTP port
| 21 (plain FTP)
|you normally use either standard FTP (port=21), SSH for FTP i.e. SFTP (port=22), or SSL/TLS (deprecated Secure Sockets Layer and replacement Transport Layer Security) i.e.FTPS (port=990 normally, may be 25). If you get connection refused, messages in the MXdiags log, then you may need to try alternative protocol and/or alternative ports.
|-
|-
| UpdateOnEdit=1
| RealtimeFTPEnabled=0
| General Options
| [FTP site]
| Update MySQL on Edit
| Legacy Cumulus
| 1 = update the table when edit the file
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Enable realtime FTP
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to be able to do file transfers at real-time interval
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeGaugesTxtCopy=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtimegauges.txt
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
*Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)  
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
Please see begining of previous table for explanation and warning about how all defaults must be set for this to work
|-
|-
| User=
| RealtimeGaugesTxtCreate=0
| Server details
| [FTP site]
| User name
| Release 3.10.0
| (empty)
| ^
| Database access user name, that matches with password described earlier
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
|}
| realtimegauges.txt &rarr; Generate
 
| 0
 
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file
==Optional Report Settings==
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
* File Section is [NOAA]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| RealtimeGaugesTxtFTP=0
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| [FTP site]
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Release 3.10.0
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| ^
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
!style="width:300px" | Description
| realtimegauges.txt &rarr; File Transfer
|-
| 0
| AutoCopy=0
| Release 3.12.0
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Auto Copy NOAA report files
| 0 (disable)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if your report is to be copied to copy directory during the [[MX_Basic_info#MX_End_of_Day_Process|End of Day process]]
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no copy action
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| AutoFTP=0
| RealtimeInterval=45000
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Legacy Cumulus
| Auto transfer NOAA report files
| ^
| 0 (disable)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Realtime interval
| 45000 milliseconds (45 seconds)
| Enter interval time in seconds (decimals allowed), stored in file converted to milliseconds
|-
| RealtimeTxtCopy=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtime.txt
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) to enable the file transfer process you have defined for MX, to upload the file for you (at first update time after rollover has completed)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[realtime.txt]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable any file transfer process
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| AutoSave=1
| RealtimeTxtCreate=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings  
| Release 3.10.0
| Create NOAA files after daily rollover
| ^
|0
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtime.txt &rarr; Generate
| 0
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want MX to use the (optional) Reports functionality
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[realtime.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if MX Reports functionality not required
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| City=
| RealtimeTxtFTP=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
| Release 3.10.0
| City
| ^
| (empty)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Enter here your hamlet, village, town, or city, name
| realtime.txt &rarr; File Transfer
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[realtime.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| CoolingThreshold=22
| RecordSetTimeoutHrs=24
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Station]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.5.1
| Cooling threshold
| Only from Release 3.12.0
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
| Depends on release:
| [[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Cold_Degree_Days|Cold Degree Days]] are a measure of the need to cool the air to make it more comfortable, based on time above, and temperature difference above, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 22 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
* (3.12.0 onwards) '''Two places''':
*# Station setings &rarr; General Settings &rarr; Advanced options
*# Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Depends on where changed (respectively):
# New record timeout
# Record set timeout
| 24
| Number of hours before the following web tags are reset: TempRecordSet, WindRecordSet, RainRecordSet, HumidityRecordSet, PressureRecordSet, HighTempRecordSet, LowTempRecordSet, HighAppTempRecordSet, LowAppTempRecordSet, HighHeatIndexRecordSet, LowWindChillRecordSet, HighMinTempRecordSet, LowMaxTempRecordSet, HighDewPointRecordSet, LowDewPointRecordSet, HighWindGustRecordSet, HighWindSpeedRecordSet, HighRainRateRecordSet, HighHourlyRainRecordSet, HighDailyRainRecordSet, HighMonthlyRainRecordSet, HighHumidityRecordSet, HighWindrunRecordSet, LowHumidityRecordSet, HighPressureRecordSet, LowPressureRecordSet, LongestDryPeriodRecordSet, LongestWetPeriodRecordSet, HighTempRangeRecordSet, LowTempRangeRecordSet
|-
|-
| CopyDirectory=
| Sslftp=
| Release 3.12.0
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| MX beta
| Copy Directory
| (always)
| (empty)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| The folder on the web server you host to which reports are to be copied
| Select the FTP Protocol to use
| 0
| Drop down list:
* 0 = FTP (plain old FTP) - default
* 1 = Use SSL/TLS (deprecated Secure Sockets Layer and replacement Transport Layer Security) for FTP (FTPS)
* 2 = Use Secure Shell Home (SSH) for FTP (SFTP)
|-
|-
| FTPDirectory=
| SshFtpAuthentication=Password
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; FTP Options
| Release 3.8.2 - build 3092
| destination folder
| Only if SFTP selected above
| Depends on release:
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
* (3.1.0 to 3.11.4) blank
| SFTP Authentication method
* (3.12.0 onwards) to match change in default web site script specification of '''Reports''' folder
| Password
| Specify the destination folder for file transfer to, on your FTP server
|Drop down list:
*Leave at default (for your release) and MX will work with the default web pages script supplied (at same release)
* 0 = Password
* Specify a folder relative to FTP root, and MX will upload reports to that folder instead (you are then responsible for writing any script on your web site to find each report and do any processing).
* 1 = Pre-shared key
* 2 = Password or pre-shared key
|-
|-
| HeatingThreshold=15.5
| SshFtpPskFile=
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Release 3.8.2 - build 3092
| Heating threshold
| only if 1 or 2 selected in previous setting
| 65<sup>o</sup> F or 18.3<sup>o</sup>C
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
|[[Heat/cold_degree_days_and_Chill_hours#Heat_Degree_Days| Heating Degree Days]] are a measure of the need for heating, based on time below, and temperature difference below, a threshold temperature. An international standard says 15.5 <sup>o</sup>Celsius is a suitable threshold to ensure comfort. For historical consistency, the default used by MX is based on the threshold used when Steve Loft first implemented this in [[Reports_folder#A_brief_history_of_these_reports|Cumulus 2 (enhancement request 44)]], and that was done to match some early look up tables.
| Pre-shared Private Key file for SFTP
| (blank)
| Filename for your private PSK file, include the full path if the file is not in same folder as  CumulusMX.exe
|-
|-
| MaxTempComp1=22
| UpdateInterval=60
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| legacy software
| Max temp comparison 1
| ^
| (empty)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Settings
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the cooling degree day threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| Web interval
| 60
| Interval between standard web updates in minutes
|-
|-
| MaxTempComp2=0
| Username=
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| legacy software
| Max temp comparison 2
| (always)
| (empty)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
| Username
| (blank)
| the user name for connecting to your server
|-
|-
| MinTempComp1=15.5
| UTF8encode=
| First with Cumulus 2
| [FTP site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| legacy software
| Min temp comparison 1  
| (always)
| (empty)
| (depends on release)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to agree with the heating degree day  threshold in Celsius. Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| UTF-8 encoding
| Default depends on release:
* (Legacy versions and MX up to 3.9.7) 0 (ISO 8859-1 character set)
* (Release 3.10.0 on) 1 (UTF-8 encoding enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to use [[Reports_folder#Encoding|'''UTF-8''' encoding]] in all [[:Category:JSON Files|.json files]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) and MX will create its .json files using '''ISO 8859-1 character set''', ''please note that this encoding is incompatible with [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information#Installing_the_new_template_for_new_users|web pages]] included in '''webfiles''' folder''; so if you upgrade from an earlier release, you may need to change this setting
|-
|-
| MinTempComp2=0
|WebcamURL=
| First with Cumulus 2
| [Web Site]
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
| Legacy Software
| Min temp comparison 2
| (always)
| (empty)
| (depends on release)
| The report will count the number of days when this threshold is exceeded. In the parameter I have quoted, the second comparison has been set to agree with feezing point (I’m using Celsius). Express in Fahrenheit if that is your chosen unit
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site
|-
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Miscellaneous
| MonthFileFormat='NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt'
| Webcam URL
| First with Cumulus 2
| (blank)
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
| Can be used to add a link to any other web page, you have on any web server. In default web pages will be labelled as "web cam", but for your own web pages, this might lead to a home or blog page.
| Monthly filename format
|}
| 'NOAAMO'MMyy'.txt' (note quotes round '''NOAAMO''' and round '''.txt''')
 
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, monthly reports
==Program Start-up Options==


There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension.  e.g. "NOAAMO"MMMyyyy".txt" would also be valid.
* Introduced release 3.9.4 - b3099
* File Section is [Program]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| Name=Personal Weather Station
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| First with Cumulus 2
!style="width:160px" | MX Section
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
!style="width:160px" | Label on Settings page
| Site Name
!style="width:20px" | Default
| (empty)
!style="width:600px" | Description
| What you would like to see in report title for your station name
|-
|-
| NOAAUseUTF8=1
|StartupPingHost=
| First with Cumulus 2
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
|Host to PING on program start-up
| Use UTF-8 encoding
|None (no remote host)
| 1 (UTF-8)
| Add a hostname or IP to address to ping at startup. Cumulus waits until the ping is successful before trying to read from your station. Leave blank to disable
| Please see [[Reports_folder#Encoding]]
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for default, modern files use UTF-8 encoding, this can display an extended range of characters, including the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol
* If unticked (0 appears in file), then iso-8859-1 encoding is used, this has a more restricted range of characters, and the <sup>o</sup> degree symbol is coded differently
|-
|-
| RainComp1=0.5
|StartupPingEscapeTime=999
| First with Cumulus 2
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
|PING escape time (mins)
| Rain comparison 1
|999 (minutes)
| (empty)
|Specify a time after which if no ping response is received carry on starting Cumulus MX anyway
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold. In the parameter I have quoted, the first comparison has been set to the same as I have set else where as my significant rain threshold
|-
|-
| RainComp2=
|StartupDelaySecs=0
| First with Cumulus 2
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
|Start-up Delay (secs)
| Rain comparison 2
|zero (no delay)
| (empty)
|Add a delay before the Cumulus tries to start reading the station.
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
|-
|-
| RainComp3=
|StartupDelayMaxUptime=300
| First with Cumulus 2
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Thresholds
|Max system uptime to apply the start-up delay
| Rain comparison 3
|300 (seconds equivalent to 5 minutes)
| (empty)
|The time that has passed sice MX was started (up-time) is compared against the (max delay time) figure here.
| The report will count the number of days when the daily rainfall exceeds this threshold.
*If max delay time less than up-time, the delay specified in previous parameter will NOT be applied
|-
*If up-time less than this max delay time, then MX will apply any delay specified in previous parameter
| State=
*If this parameter is set to zero, then MX will always apply any delay specified in previous parameter
| First with Cumulus 2
|}
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Site Details
 
| State
==Proxy==
| (empty)
 
| Enter here your local authority area or region (state in USA)
This is a continuation of an experimental legacy Cumulus software feature, please see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=728 here for request] and see [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)#Proxies|here]] for potential content.  I have not seen any evidence that this feature ever came out of beta, and nobody has ever commented on its use, so I see no reason to do any further documentation.
|-
| UseDotDecimal=0
| Release 3.9.5 - b3100
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Use a 'dot' decimal point
| 0 (disable)
| Formatting real numbers for when NOAA report parsed by a script


Simple tick or not
==Station specific alternatives==
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want NOAA reports to use decimal point even if locale says use decimal comma
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if NOAA reports use the integer/decimal separator specified by locale
|-
| UseMinMaxAvg=0
| Release 3.12.0
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Report Options
| Use WHO average or Integrated average
| 0 (integrated average)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use WHO approach: (min + max)/2
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you want temperature averages quoted in NOAA reports to use integrated calculation: Sum of all temperature measurements divided by count of measurements
|-
| YearFileFormat='NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt’
| First with Cumulus 2
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
| Yearly filename format
| 'NOAAYR'yyyy'.txt'
| Here you specify the filename template for MX to use when reading, or writing, yearly reports


There is a prefix text in quotes,then comes a way to specify months (see [[Reports_folder#NOAA_style_Report_Naming]]), and finally comes the mandatory text extension.
A number of settings are shown only for specific station types, and so the following tables are grouped here.
|-
|12hourformat=0
| ???
| NOAA Reports Settings &rarr; Output Files
|Time format
|0 (24 hour)
| How times are output on reports
* 24 Hour (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
* 12 Hour (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini)
|}


Since MX is being developed by someone who uses a Davis station, a lot of "Labels on the Settings Screens" mention "Davis" even if you have selected a different station, because the code was written by copy and paste!


=== Solar===


===Normal Mean Temperatures===
Cumulus MX is unable to work out if you have a solar sensor, so these options are always displayed.
 
* File Section is [NOAA]
* The parameters run from ‘’’NOAATempNormJan=’’’ to ‘’’NOAATempNormDec=’’
* There is one box labelled for each month on the settings screens
* All the defaults are (blank)
* What you enter is the mean temperature, long-term averages (say over 10 or 30 years if available) say is expected that month, often taken from local climate statistics, or your own past measurements
 
===Normal Precipitation===
 
* File Section is [NOAA]
Rainfall equivalents of mean temperature described above
 
==Optional Third-party Upload Settings==
 
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:30px" | File Section
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:60px" | MX Section
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:80px" | Action on Settings page
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-
|-
| <pre>ID=
| SolarCalc=0
pass=-1
| [Solar]
server=cwop.aprs.net
| 3.13
port=14580
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
Enabled=0
| Solar Calculation Method
Interval=9
0=Ryan-Stololzenbach
SendSR=0
| Drop-down list:
APRSHumidityCutoff=0</pre>
*  0=Ryan-Stololzenbach
| [APRS]
* 1=Bras
| APRS/CWOP
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>User=
| SunThreshold=75
Password=
| [Solar]
Language=en
| 3.13
Enabled=0
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
Interval=900
| Sun Threshold (percent)
SendUV=0
| 75
SendSR=0
| Enter a number
SendSoilTemp=0
SendIndoor=0
SendSoilMoisture=0
SendLeafWetness=0
SendAirQuality=0</pre>
| [Awekas]
| AWEKAS
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>Enabled=0
| SolarMinimum=0
CatchUp=1
| [Solar]
APIkey=
| 3.13
StationId=
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
Interval=15</pre>
| Solar minimum (W/m2)
| [OpenWeatherMap]
| 30
| OpenWeatherMap
| Enter a number
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>ID=
| RStransfactorJul=0.80000000000000004
Password=
| [Solar]
Enabled=0
| 3.14
Interval=15
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
SendUV=0
| RS Transmission factor (June)
SendSR=0
 
CatchUp=1</pre>
(Note the internal calculation does apply this to June, but some MX releases were incorrectly typed to say "July" on the settings screen).
| [PWSweather]
| 0.8
| PWS Weather
| MX does a sinusoidal interpolation between this value and the next. So this June factor changes very little either side of that solstice, with the average value from both factors applying at the equinoxes (March and September) and different amounts of each factor each side of equinox.  (So actually more like a cosine interpolation!)
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>User=
| RStransfactorDec=0.80000000000000004
Password=
| [Solar]
Enabled=0
| 3.14
Interval=60
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
OauthToken=unknown
| RS Transmission factor (December)
OauthTokenSecret=unknown
| 0.8
TwitterSendLocation=1</pre>
| MX does a sinusoidal interpolation between last value and this one. So this December factor changes very little either side of that solstice, with the average value from both factors applying at the equinoxes (March and September) and different amounts of each factor each side of equinox.  (So actually more like a cosine interpolation!)
| [Twitter]
| Twitter
| Please note that twitter is deprecated, no new settings possible, existing settings can be used by people who migrated from Cumulus 1 with working tokens
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>Wid=
| UseBlakeLarsen=0
Key=
| [Solar]
Enabled=0
| Legacy
Interval=10
| Extra Sensor Settings
SendUV=0
| Blake-Larsen Sunshine Recorder
SendSR=0
| 0=deselected
SendAQI=0
| checkbox
SendSoilMoisture=0
|}
SoilMoistureSensor=0
 
SendLeafWetness=0
===Selecting the weather station type determines which options are shown===
LeafWetnessSensor=0</pre>
 
| [WeatherCloud]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| WeatherCloud
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>Enabled=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
StationUID=
!style="width:100px" | File Section
Password=
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
Interval=1
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
SendRain=0</pre>
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| [WindGuru]
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Windguru
!style="width:800px" | Description
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
|-
|-
| <pre>APIkey=
|Type= -1
StationIdx=0
| [Station]
Enabled=0
| 0 (all releases), 1 (Early legacy releases), 2 and 3 (from version 1.7.0), 4 (from version 1.7.12), 5 (from version 1.8.0), 6 (from version 1.8.3), 7 (from version 1.9.1), 8 to 10 (from release 1.9.2), 11 (from a MX beta build), and 12 (from release 3.2.0)
Interval=15
| Station Settings &rarr; General Settings
SendUV=0
| Station type
CatchUp=1</pre>
| -1 (not yet defined)
| [Windy]
| Drop-down
| Windy.com
* -1 = "Select Station", shown before a selection from those below is made
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
* 0 = Davis Vantage Pro station
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
* 1 = Davis Vantage Pro2 or Vue station
|-
* 2 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) which have a serial port connection and have wireless connection (e.g. WMR-928 station)
| <pre>ID=
* 3 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) which have a serial port connection and have wired connection (e.g. WM-918 station)
Password=
* 4 = Reading from file [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |EasyWeather.dat]] (using EasyWeather software version 6.2, or earlier, running continuously with Cumulus). Fine Offset weather stations that record Solar and UV measurements output to [[EasyWeather_Format#EasyWeatherPlus.dat| EasyWeatherPlus.dat file]] when Easyweather software version 6.x is running. This has the same fields as easyweather.dat, plus two extra fields for Solar and UV data at the end, and so Cumulus can understand the fields you must also have '''LogExtraSensors=1''' set.
Enabled=0
'''NOTE:''' You can also use ''Type=4'' if you want to run Cumulus with reduced functionality without a weather station attached, to view historical observations. A full set of (historic) files in the ''data'' subfolder copied from a system with a weather station attached is needed, but in this case, the [[#Introduced for problems with Fine Offset family:| EWFile= ]] attribute should be at its default of not having any filename value.  
Interval=15
* 5 = Fine Offset, Maplin, Chas Olsen, MyDEL, Nevada, Watson, Tycon Power, Aercus, etc as defined in [[Supported_Devices#Fine_Offset|Fine Offset section in Supported_Devices article]] ('''without''' solar measurement sensors (with or without solar recharging))
SendUV=0
* 6 = For all La Crosse WS23xx models e.g. WS2300
SendSR=0
* 7 = Fine Offset/Watson/MyDel etc '''with Solar Sensors''' as defined in [[Supported_Devices#Fine_Offset_with_UV/Light sensor|Fine Offset with UV/Light sensor in Supported_Devices article]].
CatchUp=1</pre>
* 8 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) using [[WMR100-200_Protocol]] e.g. WMR100
| [WOW]
* 9 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) using [[WMR100-200_Protocol]] e.g. WMR200
| Met Office WOW
* 10 = Instromet (with optional extra solar sensors or without)
| Tick "Enabled" to see list of parameters so you can edit them
* 11 = Davis WLL
| Defaults are as shown in list of parameters
* 12 = Ecowitt GW1000 and Froggit DP1500 (and any equivalents)
 
'''Selection made here determines what MX sections appear on the Station Settings page
|-
| Model=
| [Station]
| Early legacy version
| Station Settings &rarr; General Settings
| Station model
| (empty) 
|The weather station model description that you want output by the web tag &lt;#stationtype>
|}
|}


==Optional Web Server==
===Airlink===


The settings listed here changed dramatically at both 3.10.0 and 3.12.0 releases, but they have gradually evolved throughout the development of MX.
The details in this sub-section need to be checked by someone who uses the relevant hardware.


FRom 3.12.0, MX can optionally either copy files to a web server you host or file transfer files to a commercial web server.
* Introduced Release
 
* File Section is [AirLink]
To implement (and customise) this web server functionality, there are many settings as listed alphabetically in this table. The Internet settings page simplifies making settings by providing selections that amend multiple settings in a bulk operation:
* Not Shown on Settings page?
* Some settings (marked ^ in table) are only displayed if you select '''I want to use the supplied default web site'''.  
IsWllNode=0
** For these settings, the "Generate" option is enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) settings
WLv2ApiKey=
** If you select "Enable file copy of standard files" (default is disabled) then those settings have their "Copy" option enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) cases, and their "FTP Transfer" option deselected (instead of defaults shown in table)
WLv2ApiSecret=
** If you deselect "Enable file transfer of standard files" (default is enabled) then those settings have their "Copy" option disabled, and their "FTP Transfer" option enabled in nearly all (see any qualifier) cases (as per defaults shown in table)
AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
* '''The default selections assume you have air quality, and solar, sensors; so you may need to disable some of the defaults the above selections have made'''
In-Enabled=0
* If you don't select '''I want to use the supplied default web site''', then all the settings marked ^ are disabled
In-IPAddress=0.0.0.0
** This is what you want if you do not use the MX optional web server functionality
In-WLStationId=-1
** If you have a customised  web site, you may want to select '''I want to use the supplied default web site'''  to see the settings that would otherwise all be disabled, and then pick any options that would be useful to you.
In-Hostname=
Out-Enabled=0
Out-IPAddress=0.0.0.0
Out-WLStationId=-1
Out-Hostname=
AQIformula=0
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
Line 2,847: Line 2,678:
!style="width:600px" | Description
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
|-
| ActiveFTP=0
|
| [FTP site]
|}
| Legacy Cumulus
 
| No
===Davis===
| Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
 
| (n/a )
Two Wiki sub-sections, that need to be checked by by somebody who uses the relevant functionality:
| (n/a)
 
| *0 = Disabled (default)
 
*1 = Enabled, Cumulus will use 'active' FTP mode instead of the default 'passive' mode. You should only select active mode if you are having problems with FTP uploads.
====Davis VP/VP2/Vue====
 
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} This table does not yet have all details in it.
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus
* File Section is [Station]
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=0" or "Type=1"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
|-
| Copy-airquality=0
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| [FTP site]
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| Release 3.12.0
!style="width:120px" | Default
| ^
!style="width:800px" | Description
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| airquality.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the airquality.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have an air quality sensor)
|-  
|-  
| Copy-alldailydegdaydata=0
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]  
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|
| ^
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|-
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; Copy
|VP2SleepInterval=500
| 0 (disabled)
|
| Simple tick or not
|500 (milli-seconds)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailydegdaydata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|the period which Cumulus waits between reads of the data from Davis stations, the value is in milliseconds.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* if you suspect that data is being missed, reduce number
|-  
*For VirtualVP users, tests revealed that VP2SleepInterval = 1100 seems to work the best. It updates every two seconds with few exceptions.  
| Copy-alldailyhumdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
|VPClosedownTime=x
| Release 3.12.0
|
| ^
|(default not yet documented)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| x is the number of seconds after the start of the re-connect attempts that you want the program to close itself
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Copy-alldailypressdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Copy-alldailyraindata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Copy-alldailysolardata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailysolardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-
| Copy-alldailytempdata=0
|DavisCalcAltPress=1
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|1
| ^
|Davis stations calculate Sea Level Pressure (SLP) from Station Pressure (SP) using a formula based on temperature, humidity, and altitude
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
 
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; Copy
CWOP require 'Altimeter Pressure' (AP) to be uploaded, i.e. a value calculated simply using altitude.  
| 0 (disabled)
*0 = Use SLP supplied by Davis
| Simple tick or not
*1 = Convert the SP Davis supplies to AP using the altitude you have supplied.
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Copy-alldailywinddata=0
|SyncDavisClock=0
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|0  
| ^
|When set, at Cumulus start-up and at a fixed time (default 04:00, see next parameter) each day, Cumulus will set the Davis VP/VP2 clock to within a minute of the same time as the PC. (From build 3015 for MX).
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
*0 = Disabled, default (as deselected on the Station Configuration Screen)
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; Copy
*1 = Enabled, ensures that when Cumulus asks the station for data since time X, both recognise X!
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Copy-alltempsumdata=0
|ClockSettingHour=4
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|4
| ^
|Controls what hour of the day the SyncDavisClock activity will take place if it is enabled.
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
*4 = 04:00 (default value)
| alldailytempsumdata.json &rarr; Copy
*0-23 = 00:00 to 23:00
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
|VP2ConnectionType=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[alldailytempsumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|  
|Weather station connection type
*0 = serial (see next parameter to specify COM port)
*(1 = usb - setting no longer available on screen, remains as default in cumulus.ini for those not using a Davis)
*2 = TCP/IP (see later parameters to specify ports)
Default is type 1, i.e. neither option on screen selected, so if you use a Davis you must select either serial or TCP/IP.
|-
|-
| Copy-availabledata=0
|VP2TCPPort=22222
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
| 2222
| ^ (once only)
|Communications port used if VP type has TCP/IP selected.
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| availabledata.json  &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[availabledata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Copy-dailyrain=0
|VP2IPAddr=0.0.0.0  
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
| 0.0.0.0
| ^
|Weather station IP address if VP type has TCP/IP selected.
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| dailyrain.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Copy-dailytemp=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[dailytemp.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Copy-graphconfig=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| graphconfig.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[graphconfig.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Copy-humdata=0
|VP2PeriodicDisconnectInterval=0
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|0 (disable)
| ^
|When the clock minute changes, Cumulus stops the current stream of data from the console, disconnects, waits for the specified number of milliseconds, to allow the Weatherlink IP to briefly connect to the Davis Weatherlink site. Cumulus then attempts to reconnect.
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
 
| humdata.json &rarr; Copy
Set it to zero to disable, if you are not using the Weatherlink site.
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
|LogExtraSensors=0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[humdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|0
|-  
|This is set in the '''Settings''' block on the Station settings screen off the configuration menu. Set this to 1 if you have additional sensors (e.g. a Davis Leaf Wetness probe) to make Cumulus read, display, and log the readings from the sensors. You don't select this for Solar/UV sensors.
| Copy-pressdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
|UseDavisLoop2=1
| Release 3.12.0
|
| ^
|1 (use Loop2)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|The current MX code uses ''LOOP2'' for two purposes. First, it uses the 'peak 10-minute gust' value, to avoid the problem where a gust might be missed, and secondly it uses the 'absolute pressure' value to make calculation of 'altimeter pressure' easier and more accurate. This is mainly used if you upload to CWOP.
| pressdata.json &rarr; Copy
*1 (default) = Cumulus MX will use the LOOP2 packet for Davis Weather Stations by default. The LOOP2 packet is supported on the VP2 with firmware version 1.90 or later, and on the Vue.
| 0 (disabled)
*0 = Select this if you have a Vantage Pro (i.e. the original 'VP1'), or a VP2 with pre-1.90 firmware, or if you are using Virtual VP, none of these support the LOOP2 packet.
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[pressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
Without this setting, Cumulus will revert to calculating the 10-minute gust value itself from the individual wind speed readings, but it will not currently attempt to calculate altimeter pressure correctly, it will simply use the sea-level pressure instead. This is likely to be an issue if you are at high altitude and you upload to CWOP using Cumulus MX.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-  
|DavisIPResponseTime=500
| Copy-raindata=0
|
| [FTP site]
|500
| Release 3.12.0
|The length of time in milliseconds which Cumulus waits to allow a response from the console to a command (i.e. a request for any kind of data) from an IP logger, see Cumulus MX forum where times up to 2000ms are suggested.
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|ForceVPBarUpdate=0
| raindata.json &rarr; Copy
|
| 0 (disabled)
|0 (normal)
| Simple tick or not
| Added in build 3042 (January 2017).
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[raindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
 
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
The default (value=0) is to assume standard barometer updates on Davis stations. Set to 1, by adding ForceVPBarUpdate=1 in [Station] section to force more frequent barometer updates on Davis stations. Steve says "Having checked the code, I see it asks for 20 packets from the 'LOOP2' if the barometer forcing is on, otherwise it stops receiving LOOP data after 50 packets". Note that ForceVPBarUpdate=1 is only useful on very old versions of the console firmware.
|-  
|-
| Copy-solardata=0
|DavisIncrementPressureDP=0
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|1
| ^
|(from version 3.0.0 build 3042)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* 0= Pressure values shown to 1 decimal places when reported in mb/hPa, shown to 2 decimal places for inHg
| solardata.json &rarr; Copy
* 1= Pressure values shown to 2 decimal places when reported in mb/hPa, shown to 3 decimal places for inHg
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
|VPrainGaugeType=0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[solardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|1
|-  
|Specifies the units selected on your Vantage Pro Rain Gauge.
| Copy-sunhours=0
*0 = Metric Rain Adapter fitted, a 0.2mm gauge
| [FTP site]
*1 = Imperial gauge without adapter, a 0.01" gauge.
| Release 3.12.0
Note that if the units you choose for rainfall do not match your rain gauge type, conversion rounding errors will then occur.
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|DataLogging=0
| sunhours.json &rarr; Copy
|
| 0 (disabled)
|0
| Simple tick or not
|(Build 3018 onwards).  
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[sunhours.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
*0 (default) = Cumulus MX will not add extra logging.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable  (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
*1 = To add extra logging to the diags file for data received from Davis stations. Use this with care, the log will get very large.  
|-  
I've also added some more diagnostics to try to find the cause of the problem where data stops being read from Davis stations. Debug logging is required to be turned on. (Build 3022 onwards).
| Copy-tempdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
|AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
| Release 3.12.0
|
| ^
|1
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|default = 1, set to 0 to switch off the WLL autodetection of IP address. This is a workaround for a WLL firmware bug that does not update the IP address when it changes using DHCP.
| tempdata.json &rarr; Copy
|-
| 0 (disabled)
|ZeroConfig
| Simple tick or not
|
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[tempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|(default not known)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|set this on station settings screen; to enable/disable the entry/update of the stations IP address via auto-discovery
|-  
|}
| Copy-wdirdata=0
 
| [FTP site]
====Davis WeatherLink Live====
| Release 3.12.0
 
| ^
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} This table has not been populated yet
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* Introduced in a MX beta build
| wdirdata.json &rarr; Copy
* File Section is [WLL]
| 0 (disabled)
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=11"
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[wdirdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Copy-websitedata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| websitedata.json &rarr; Copy
| 0 (disabled)
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]


Simple tick or not
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the resulting websitedata.json to your local web server
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-  
|-  
| Copy-winddata=0
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.12.0
|  
| ^
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|-
| winddata.json &rarr; Copy
|
| 0 (disabled)
|
| Simple tick or not
|
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[winddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|  
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|}
 
===EasyWeather (Reading File instead of connecting to a Weather Station)===
 
This sub-section is based on what applied for the legacy software, assuming nothing has changed for MX.
 
* Introduced in a Legacy version
* File Section is [Station]
* MX Section is "EasyWeather File Settings"
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=4"
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:120px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-  
|-  
| Copy-wxnow=0
| EWInterval=10
| [FTP site]
| File Read Interval
| Release 3.12.0
| 10 (minutes between new line becoming available in file)
| ^ (disabled)
| Cumulus needs to know how often to read a new record from the easyweather.dat file. Enter any number in box.
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
*0= Default, meaning not applicable
| wxnow.txt &rarr; Copy
*n= any positive decimal value representing Easyweather version 6.2, or earlier, logging interval in minutes  (used for reading single latest observations from [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |Easyweather]] software output). Note to specify seconds, use decimal minutes, e.g. 30 seconds = 0.5
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy that file to your local web server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
|-  
| CopyMoonImage=0
| EWFile=  
| [FTP site]
| Filename
| Release 3.12.0
| (empty)
| ^
| * Full file path/name for [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |Easyweather.dat or EasyWeatherPlus.dat]]
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
* (empty) (i.e. attribute and equals sign, but no value) '''Note:''' If you want to run Cumulus without an attached weather station (because your station has a fault or because you have a second PC), it is possible to run Cumulus with station '''Type=4''' but with the default of no file specified in this parameter. The full Cumulus directory structure and its files including those in the ''data'' sub-directory are needed (kept from when your station was working or copied from the PC with the station). Although only the old observations can be accessed, (no new ones are being added), this does allow analysis of the old observations via all Cumulus features
| Copy Moon image file
 
| 0 (disabled)
See [[FAQ#Cumulus_isn.27t_performing_periodic_tasks.2C_like_data_logging_or_web_uploads|FAQ here]] for reduced functionality using Cumulus 1 in this way.
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy moon image file to your local web server (need to select "Generate Moon Image" see '''MoonImageEnabled=''' too)
| EWminpressureMB=900
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Minimum Pressure Value
| 900
| Cumulus will ignore all pressure readings from the station that are less than this value (units are always hPa/millibars)
|-
|-
| Create-airquality=0
| EWmaxpressureMB=1200
| [FTP site]
| Maximum Pressure Value
| Release 3.10.0
| 1200
| ^
| Cumulus will ignore all pressure readings from the station that are greater than this value (units are always hPa/millibars)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|-
| airquality.json &rarr; Generate
| EWMaxRainTipDiff=40
| 1 (enabled)
| Rain Tip Difference
| Simple tick or not
| Default=30 tips in Cumulus 1, MX default is 40 tips
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the airquality.json file
| This configurable threshold is the maximum feasible amount of rain between updates (i.e. within 48-seconds on Fine Offset stations without solar, 60 seconds on those measuring solar), set in units of count of tips.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
|-  
For standard Fine Offset rain gauges, each tip represents 0.3mm, so 30 tips are equivalent to 9 mm, or just over a third of an inch in 48 seconds.
| Create-alldailydegdaydata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailydegdaydata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-alldailyhumdata=0


| [FTP site]
This setting affects rain rate, rain last hour, rain so far today (and what is recorded in today.ini/dayfile.txt), but does not affect the web tag <#r24hour>.
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
| EWpressureoffset=x.y
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Pressure Offset
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; Generate
| 9999
| 1 (enabled)
| The pressure that Cumulus MX processes is equal to what read in the file plus the value set for this parameter. Normally used to convert the station pressure to the equivalent Sea Level Pressure.
| Simple tick or not
|}
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file  
 
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
===Ecowitt GW1000 and Froggit DP1500 (and any equivalents) specific===
|-
 
| Create-alldailypressdata=0
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} An Ecowitt user needs to check/update this sub-section, it is understood significant changes are included in 3.12.0 beta builds, but the forum does not give away any details
| [FTP site]
 
| Release 3.10.0
* Introduced in release 3.2.0
| ^
* File Section is [GW100]
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* MX Section is "Ecowitt GW1000 Settings"
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; Generate
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=12"
| 1 (enabled)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
!style="width:100px" | Label on Settings page
|-  
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Create-alldailyraindata=0
!style="width:600px" | Description
| [FTP site]
|-
| Release 3.10.0
|AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
| ^
|Auto-discovery
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|1 (selected)
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; Generate
|Should MX attempt to discover IP address
| 1 (enabled)
*0=Disable
| Simple tick or not
*1=Enable
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|IPAddress=
|-  
|IP address
| Create-alldailysolardata=0
|(no default)
| [FTP site]
| stores the IP address of your GW1000 WiFi logger
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
|MACAddress=
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|MAC addresss
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; Generate
|(no default)
| 1 (enabled)
|Populated by MX when auto-discovery enabled
| Simple tick or not
|}
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailysolarydata.json]] file
 
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable  (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
 
|-  
===Fine Offset Stations===
| Create-alldailytempdata=0
 
| [FTP site]
* Introduced in a Legacy version
| Release 3.10.0
* File Section is [Station]
| ^
* MX Section is "Fine Offset Settings"
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=5" or "Type=7"
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; Generate
 
| 1 (enabled)
 
| Simple tick or not
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
|-
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
| Create-alldailywinddata=0
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
| [FTP site]
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Release 3.10.0
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
| ^
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
!style="width:300px" | Description
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; Generate
|-
| 1 (enabled)
| FOReadAvoidPeriod=3
| Simple tick or not
| MX release ??
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file
| Only if Fine Offset selected
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
|-  
| Read Avoid Period
| Create-alltempsumdata=0
| 3 (seconds)
| [FTP site]
| If previous setting enabled, MX will avoid reading the circular memory from the number of seconds specified before it expects Fine Offset to be writing to the circular memory, to the number of seconds specified after it expects Fine Offset to be writing to the circular memory
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
(One issue is that Fine Offset will move from one position to the next position in the circular memory, at the Fine Offset Logging Interval, but will delay this move by up to one minute, if the existing memory position is actually being updated by a read from the sensors and normally those updates happen every 40 seconds for non-solar sensors, and every 60 seconds for solar sensor)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
|-
| alldailytempsumdata.json &rarr; Generate
| ??
| 1 (enabled)
| MX release ??
| Simple tick or not
| Only if Fine Offset selected
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[alldailytempsumdata.json]] file
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Set the Fine Offset Logger interval to match Cumulus MX interval
|-  
| Create-availabledata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| availabledata.json  &rarr; Generate
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not - labelled as "Experimental - use with caution"
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[availabledata.json]] file
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to "update the Davis interval" (I said copy and paste was used from Davis section!) to match the interval MX is using.  
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no effect on your weather station
|-
|-
| Create-dailyrain=0
| FineOffsetReadTime=150
| [FTP site]
| MX release ??
| Release 3.10.0
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| ^
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Request/Read Delay
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 150 (milliseconds)
| 1 (enabled)
| Adjust time (in milliseconds) between request for read, and actual attempt to read data via USB
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailyrain.json]] file
| ProductID=-1
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| USB Product Id (PID)
| -1 (default setting)
| Advanced setting if you don't want to leave it to MX to find your HID
|-  
|-  
| Create-dailytemp=0
| SyncFOReads=0
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| ^
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Settings
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Synchronise Reads
| dailytemp.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to work out when your Fine Offset is writing data to the console log, so that MX does not read the Fine Offset circular memory when it is being updated
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to read the Fine Offset circular memory whenever it next wants data
|-  
 
| Create-graphconfig=0
# The parameter was added for legacy releases, to try to reduce the occurrence of "lock-up" issues.
| [FTP site]
# MX uses a different way to interrogate Fine Offset stations, originally ticking this could result in more reads being skipped, than actually processed, potentially updating just a few times a day, so it was best disabled!
| Release 3.10.0
# The MX code relating to this parameter was rewritten 1n 3.11.0, but the developer labels this as an "attempt", so it may still be best to try to manage without enabling this setting
| ^ (once only)
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| VendorID=-1
| graphconfig.json &rarr; Generate
| MX release ??
| 1 (enabled)
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Simple tick or not
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[graphconfig.json]] file
| USB Vendor Id (PID)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| -1 (default setting)
| Advanced setting if you don't want to leave it to MX to find your HID
|}
 
===Instromet Settings===
 
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} The following table has some gaps to fill in, needs a contributor who uses this type of weather station
 
* Introduced in a Legacy version
* File Section is [Station]
* MX Section is "Instromet Settings" or "Instromet Advanced Options" as indicated
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=5" or "Type=7"
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:300px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-  
|-  
| Create-humdata=0
| ComportName=xxxxxx
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Settings
| Release 3.10.0
| Serial port name
| ^
| /dev/ttyUSB0 (on Linux), COM1 (on Microsoft Windows)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Only required if your station is connected via a real, or virtual, serial port
| humdata.json &rarr; Generate
|-
|ImetBaudRate=19200
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Settings
| Serial Baud Rate (DavisBaudRate)
| 19200
| Some ?older? Instromet loggers operate at 115200, if you have one of these older loggers you will need to reset this value
|-
| "SyncDavisClock=0" and "ClockSettingHour=4"
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| "Sychronise Station Clock" and "Clock sync hour"
| Tick box not selected, data box set to 4
| Note despite the name of the parameter within 'Cumulus.ini', this does apply to Instromet stations.
 
*Simple tick or not
** Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to sychronise the Instromet Station Clock with your computer time. This ensures that when Cumulus asks the station for data since time X, both recognise X as representing same time!
** Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you don't want MX to attempt to keep station clock in line with computer clock
* Box taking an integer
** The hour of the day when,  if enabled, Cumulus will set the Instromet clock to within a minute of the same time as the computer. This will happen at a default time of 04:00 each day, (4 a.m.) unless the setting box is edited
|-
| ImetUpdateLogPointer=1
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| Update logger pointer
| 1 (enabled)
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[humdata.json]] file
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to update the memory pointer to the last record after every 30 data reads
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Don't tick to disable this action
|-
|-
| Create-pressdata=0
|ImetWaitTime=500
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| Release 3.10.0
| Delay between sending data read commands
| ^
| 500
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Specifies the time in milliseconds that Cumulus waits after one read, before it does the next read from an Instromet station. According to the specification, 500 ms is the absolute maximum time that the station should take to respond to any commandFor Cumulus 1, the default was 200 milli-seconds, so you might try that too.
| pressdat.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[pressdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Create-raindata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| raindata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[raindata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-solardata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| solardata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[solardata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
|-
|-
| Create-tempdata=1
| ImetReadDelay=500
| [FTP site]
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| Release 3.10.0
| Delay after sending a command before trying to read data from the serial port
| ^
| 500
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Specifies the time in milliseconds that Cumulus allows after sending a command before it tries to read data on the serial port. According to the specification, 500 ms is the absolute maximum time that the station should take to respond to any command. For Cumulus 1, the default was 200 milli-seconds, so you might try that too.  
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Generate
|}
| 1 (enabled)
 
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
===LaCrosse stations===
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
|-
 
| Create-sunhours=0
 
| [FTP site]
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} The following table has some gaps to fill in, needs a contributor who uses this type of weather station
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
 
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
| dailytemp.json &rarr; Generate
|-
| 1 (enabled)
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
| Simple tick or not
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[dailytemp.json]] file
!style="width:100px" | File Section
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable  (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
!style="width:150px" | Introduced
|-  
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
| Create-tempdata=0
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page (mostly in '''Alarm''' column)
| [FTP site]
!style="width:20px" | Default
| Release 3.10.0
!style="width:300px" | Description
| ^
|-
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| LCMaxWind=X
| tempdata.json &rarr; Generate
| Shown only if La Crosse was selected as station type
| 1 (enabled)
| [Station]
| Simple tick or not
| 3.12.0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[tempdata.json]] file
| Depends on release:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* (Version 1.8.8 Build 874 to release 3.11.4) Need to edit manually in file directly
* (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Station Settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| La Crosse max wind speed
| ???
| It is setting for the La Crosse max wind speed, where X is the maximum (before calibrated by any definitions in Offsets) wind speed in m/s that you want to allow. The value you supply should be in metres/second, regardless of what wind unit you are using in Cumulus
|}
 
It is assumed that [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)#La_Crosse_specific:|most parameters remain same]]
 
===Oregon Scientific WM918/WMR928 Settings===
 
The Oregon Scientific code has not changed since the earliest beta MX (3.0.0) builds based on moving compiled code from Cumulus 1. 
 
It appears very few current Cumulus users own these obsolete models, so all these settings have to be added directly into the file, you can't edit them in the admin interface, and they will be missing from any configuration file created by any MX release.
 
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus, and unchanged by MX
* File Section is [Station], these settings need to be manually entered into file below that section heading
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | External to MX edit
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-  
|-  
| Create-wdirdata=0
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]
| [FTP site]
|
| Release 3.10.0
|  
| ^
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| wdirdata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[wdirdata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Create-websitedata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| websitedata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]
 
Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to process the '''websitedataT.json''' file into websitedata.json
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Create-winddata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| winddata.json &rarr; Generate
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[winddata.json]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Create-wxnow=0
|Humidity98Fix=0  
| [FTP site]
| Stop MX and add this into file
| Release 3.10.0
|0 (disable)
| ^ (disabled)
|Applies to weather station types that never report more than 98% relative humidity.
| (depends on release)
*0 = Disabled (default)
* (releases 3.10.0 to 3.11.4) Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Settings
*1 = Enabled, humidity displayed and recorded as 100% if your sensor registers a relative humidity of 98%. Normally only useful for Oregon Scientific stations.
* (release 3.12.0 on) Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
|-
| wxnow.txt &rarr; Generate
|LogExtraSensors=0
| 0 (disabled)
| Stop MX and add this into file
| Simple tick or not
|0 (disable)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to  generate a [[wsnow.txt]] file
|This setting determines whether MX looks for readings from extra temperature probes etc.  
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
*0=Disabled (default)
|-  
*1= Enabled - Used for Oregon Scientific WMR-928 and similar stations if you have additional sensors (e.g. another temperature probe) to make Cumulus read, display, and log the readings from those sensors. You don't use this for Solar/UV sensors..
| DeleteBeforeUpload=0
| [FTP site]
| legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| (depends on release)
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| Delete before upload
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to issue instruction to delete existing file (with same name) on the web server before it creates the new file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
|-
|-
| Directory=
|WMR928TempChannel=N
| [FTP site]
| Stop MX and add this into file
| Legacy Cumulus
|(by default no extra sensors)
| (always)  
|for WMR-928 stations (and other serial stations using the same protocol, eg WMR-968) to use an 'extra' channel  (see previous parameter) as your main temperature sensor, set N to the required channel
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
|-
| Remote FTP Directory
|WMR200TempChannel=N
| (blank)
| Stop MX and add this into file
| Directory (including path) on your server to which FTP (if 'Enabled' is enabled) will upload the files.
|(by default no extra sensors)
*value is left Blank, default, the root position specified by ftp server
|for WMR200 stations (and any other Oregon Scientific USB stations which work with Cumulus, e.g. WMR100) to use an 'extra' channel as your main temperature sensor, set N to the required channel
*A path from the starting point as the position specified by ftp server
|}
 
==Units, Derivative Options, and Decimal Places==
 
For altitude units, please see [[#Location]].


Not used for ExtraRemoteNN parameters
* File Section is [Station]
* Edit on Station Settings page (except where indicated in bold as another page)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-  
|-  
| DisableEPSV=0
| AirQualityDecimals=1
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.9.2
| Beta Release 3.0.0  build 3045
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| No
| Air Quality decimals
| Still Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
| (displayed as blank)
| (n/a )
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
| 0
| *0 = Disabled (default)
*1 = Enabled, to use Extended Passive FTP-mode
|-
|-
| DisableFtpsExplicit=0
| AvgBearingMinutes=10
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release  3.4.0 - Build 3064
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| No
| Average Bearing Minutes
| Change directly in file as at release 3.11.x
| 10 (minutes)
| (n/a )
| This parameter's value is the number of minutes over which Cumulus calculates (by treating the wind as a vector and taking into account the speed as well as direction) its average bearing
| 0
| (change value following attribute)
*0 = Disabled (default) use FTPS Explicit mode
*1 = Enabled, to use FTPS Implicit mode
|-
| Enabled=1
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always) Controls whether ^ settings have "File Transfer" option enabled
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| Enable file transfer of standard files
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to enable file transfer of standard files (see rows marked ^ for further selections)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| EnableLocalCopy=0
| AvgSpeedMinutes=10
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always) Controls whether ^ settings have "Copy" option enabled
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Interval Configuration
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to enable copying of files (see rows marked ^ for further selections)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| EnableRealtime=1
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Average Speed Minutes
| Enable Realtime
| 10 (minutes)
| 0 (disabled)
| This parameter's value is the number of minutes over which Cumulus averages out reported current wind speeds
| Simple tick or not
|-
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate a timer that will permit real time actions
| CalculatedDP=0
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Calculate dew point
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will calculate dew point from temperature and humidity supplied by station
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) action depends on '''Calibration settings'''
** If Cumulus has non-default multiplier and/or offset settings for temperature or humidity, Cumulus will calculate dew-point. This avoids the restriction in the Oregon Scientific stations where the dew point can never be below freezing point.
** If station provides dew point, then that will be used provided no multiplier/offsets have been specified for temperature or humidity
|-
|-
| Ftp-airquality=0
| CalculatedWC=1
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Common Options
| ^
| Calculate wind chill
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| airquality.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Simple tick or not:
| 1 (enabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will calculate wind chill from temperature and wind speed
| Simple tick or not
** Note that there is a maximum temperature, and minimum wind speed, for Cumulus to make the calculation, see [[Wind_chill]] page
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the airquality.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) action depends on other items:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have an air quality sensor)
** If Cumulus has non-default multiplier and/or offset settings for temperature or wind speed, Cumulus will calculate wind chill
|-  
** If station does NOT make a wind chill value available to Cumulus,  Cumulus MX reports an error if you have not ticked this setting, (that is different to how the setting worked with the legacy software).
| Ftp-alldailydegdaydata=0
** If station provides wind chill, then that value will be used provided no multiplier/offsets have been specified for temperature or wind speed.
| [FTP site]
|-
| Release 3.10.0
| ChillHourSeasonStart=
| ^
| Legacy Cumulus
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Chill Hours
| alldailydegdaydata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Chill Season Starts
| 1 (enabled)
| Default depends on release
| Simple tick or not
* (up to 3.11.4) 10 = October
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the alldailydegdaydata.json file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* (from 3.12.0) 4 in Southern hemisphere, 10 in Northern hemisphere
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| The value to enter is the month number (1=January, 12=December) and the Cumulative Chill Hours Count is reset to zero on the first of the selected month
|-  
|-
| Ftp-alldailyhumdata=0
| ChillHourThreshold=
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Chill Hours
| ^
| Chill Hours
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Default depends on Temperature Units
| alldailyhumdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* Either 45 degrees Fahrenheit (equivalent to 7.22 <sup>o</sup>Celsius)
| 1 (enabled)
* Or 7 degrees Celsius (equivalent to 44.6 <sup>o</sup>Fahrenheit)
| Simple tick or not
| Chill Hours are incremented by the number of (fractional) hours that the air temperature is below the threshold. In practice, Cumulus simply detects if the current temperature is below the threshold and adds an increment equivalent to the (interval) time passed since the last temperature reading.
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailyhumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* You can put in any value you want, with a decimal place if required
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* Some people have put in the freezing-point temperature (0<sup>o</sup>C or 32 <sup>o</sup>F) and they relabel "chill hours" to "frost hours"
|-  
|-
| Ftp-alldailypressdata=0
| CloudBaseInFeet=0
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| (As at 3.11.4, can only adjust in the file)
| ^
|
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| 0 (default in MX is metres)
| alldailypressdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Select units used for reporting theoretical cloud base:
| 1 (enabled)
* 0 = metres (default if file created by MX)
| Simple tick or not
* 1 = feet (default if file created by legacy software)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailypressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
|-
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| ErrorLogSpikeRemoval=1
|-  
| Legacy Cumulus
| Ftp-alldailyraindata=0
| '''Calibration Settings''' &rarr; Final tick box
| [FTP site]
| Log spike and limit violations to error log
| Release 3.10.0
| 1 (default in MX is enabled)
| ^
| Log spike and limit violations to error log (in MX this is in [[MXdiags folder]]):
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* 1 = do log (default if file created by MX)
| alldailyraindata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* 0 = don't log (default if file created by legacy software)
| 1 (enabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| HourlyForecast=1
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailyraindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Legacy Cumulus
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Forecast
|-  
| Update forecast hourly
| Ftp-alldailysolardata=0
| 1 (default in MX is enabled)
| [FTP site]
| When Cumulus derives its Zambretti forecast
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
Simple tick or not:
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will derive a Zambretti forecast just once an hour, on the hour
| alldailysolardata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to derive a forecast every time MX does a process of the pressure reading
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| Humidity98Fix=0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailysolardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Legacy Cumulus
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| Common Options
|-  
| Max humidity
| Ftp-alldailytempdata=0
| 0 (disable)
| [FTP site]
| For any weather station that never reports a relative humidity greater than 98%
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
Simple tick or not:
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then if weather station reading is 98%, process that as 100% for all outputs from MX
| alldailytempdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to always report what weather station reports for relative humidity
| 1 (enabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| PeakGustMinutes=10
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailytempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Legacy Cumulus
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
|-  
| Peak wind gust time
| Ftp-alldailywinddata=0
| 10 (minutes)
| [FTP site]
| MX waits until a gust has been measured for number of minutes specified by value of parameter, before checking whether previous gust extreme record have been exceeded
| Release 3.10.0
|-
| ^
| PressDecimals=1
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Release 3.9.2
| alldailywinddata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| 1 (enabled)
| Pressure decimals
| Simple tick or not
| Default depends on Pressure Units (displayed as blank)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alldailywinddata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* default is 1 if units are hPa or mb
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* default is 2 if units are inches of mercury
|-  
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
| Ftp-alltempsumdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| alltempsumdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[alltempsumdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Ftp-availabledata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| availabledata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[availabledata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Ftp-dailyrain=0
| PressureUnit=1
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Units
| ^
| Pressure
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Depends on release:
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
# Legacy to 3.11.4: 0 (mbar)
| 1 (enabled)
# 3.12.0 onwards: 1 (hPa)
| Simple tick or not
 
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Drop-down:
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* 0 = millibar (mb)
|-
* 1 = hectoPascals (hPa)
| Ftp-dailytemp=0
* 2 = inches of mercury (in Hg)
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-  
| Ftp-graphconfig=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (once only)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| graphconfig.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[graphconfig.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Ftp-humdata=0
| RainDayThreshold=
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| ^
| Rain day threshold
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
| Default is -1 which depends on Rainfall Units AND station type
| humdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* -1 = normally 0.2 if units are millimetres
| 1 (enabled)
* -1 = normally 0.01 if units are inches
| Simple tick or not
* Otherwise enter a value in your selected units
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[humdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| For derivatives like count of consecutive wet/dry days, any daily rainfall less than this threshold will be ignored.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
 
|-  
(If rainfall is measured in tips, usually set to just over one tip, as first tip of day might be result of less that one tip accumulated on earlier days or because of dew)
| Ftp-pressdata=0
|-
| [FTP site]
| RainDecimals=1
| Release 3.10.0
| Release 3.9.2
| ^
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Rainfall decimals
| pressdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Default depends on Rainfall Units (displayed as blank)
| 1 (enabled)
* default is 1 if units are millimetres
| Simple tick or not
* default is 2 if units are inches
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[pressdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-  
| RainSeasonStart=1
| Ftp-raindata=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| [FTP site]
| Annual Rainfall
| Release 3.10.0
| Start of rainfall season
| ^
| 1 (Jan)
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| Drop-down
| raindata.json &rarr; File Transfer
* 1 = January
| 1 (enabled)
* 2 = February
| Simple tick or not
* 3 = March
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[raindata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
...
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
* 9 = September
|-  
* 10 = October
| Ftp-solardata=0
* 11 = November
| [FTP site]
* 12 = December
| Release 3.10.0
 
| ^
Added in late 2010 because Cumulus users in Israel said they do not total rainfall from January.
| Internet Settings &rarr; Graph File Settings
 
| solardata.json &rarr; File Transfer
It was welcomed by people outside Israel, it turned out growers are often interested in a growing season rainfall total
| 0 (disabled)
|-
| Simple tick or not
| RainUnit=0
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[solardata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
| Legacy Cumulus
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
| Units
|-  
| Rain
| Ftp-sunhours=0
| 0 (mm)
| [FTP site]
| Drop-down:
| Release 3.10.0
* 0 = millimetres
| ^
* 1 = inches
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
|-
| sunhours.json &rarr; File Transfer
| RoundWindSpeed=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Rounding of wind speed
| 0 (no)
| Simple tick or not, (only applicable if any reported wind speed would otherwise include decimal places):
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will round all the wind speeds it reports to nearest integer
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will report wind speeds to the precision defined in "WindSpeedDecimals", "WindSpeedAvgDecimals", and "WindRunDecimals", parameters
|-
| SunshineHrsDecimals=2
| Release 3.8.0
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Sunshine hours decimals
| 2 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
| TempDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Temperature decimals
| 1 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
| TempUnit=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Units
| Temperature
| 0 (<sup>o</sup>C
| Drop-down:
* 0 = Celsius
* 1 = Fahrenheit
|-
| UseCumulusForecast=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Forecast
| Use Cumulus Forecast
| 0 (disabled)
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[sunhours.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will generate a simple weather Zambretti forecast, if your station does not supply a forecast, or as an alternative to the one supplied by your station. Please see [[Forecast_webtag]] for details.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable (e.g. if you don't have a solar sensor)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will not do any forecasting, so it will return "not available" unless your weather station provides an alternative forecast
|-
| Ftp-tempdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| tempdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[tempdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Ftp-wdirdata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| wdirdata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[wdirdata.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| Ftp-websitedata=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| websitedata.json &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Relates to asking MX to process the [[websitedataT.json]] file in [[web folder]]
 
Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the resulting websitedata.json to your local web server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| Ftp-winddata=0
| UseCumulusPresstrendstr=0
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Release 3.10.0
| Common Options
| ^
| Cumulus pressure trend names
| Internet Settings &rarr;  Graph File Settings
| 0 (depends on weather station type)
| dailyrain.json &rarr; File Transfer
| Simple tick or not:
| 1 (enabled)
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will generate the name for the current pressure trend, e.g. "Falling", "Rising quickly" etc, instead of the one supplied by your station. The names used are those in the UK Shipping Forecast, but can be modified using [[strings.ini]].
| Simple tick or not
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then effect depends on whether your weather station supplies pressure trends
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[dailyrain.json]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
** If your station does supply pressure trends, then MX will use those
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
** If your station does not supply pressure trends, then MX will generate the name for the current pressure trend, e.g. "Falling", "Rising quickly" etc, instead of the one supplied by your station. The names used are those in the UK Shipping Forecast, but can be modified using [[strings.ini]].
|-
| Ftp-wxnow=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^ (disabled)
| (depends on release)
* (release 3.10.0 to 3.11.4) Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on) Internet Settings &rarr; Standard File Settings
| wxnow.txt &rarr; File Transfer
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer that file to your local web server
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
|-
| ForumURL=
| UseSpeedForAvgCalc=0
| [Web Site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)  
| Common Options
| (depends on release)
| Use speed for average calculation
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site
| 0 (disable)
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Miscellaneous
| Simple tick or not:
| Forum URL
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will use what the weather station supplies as "wind speed" to calculate the average wind speed.
| (blank)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will use what the weather station supplies as "latest wind speed" to calculate the average wind speed
| Left blank to allow you to choose format
Please see [[Wind_measurement#Weather_Stations_and_Cumulus]] for more details.
 
|-
3.10.0 Default web pages use "<a href=\"https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/index.php\">forum</a>"
| UseZeroBearing=1
 
| Legacy Software
Some alternative URL examples:
| Common Options
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/index.php (for above example in default web pages)
| Use bearing zero when calm
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk
| 1 (enable)
*https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/search.php?search_id=active_topics
| Simple tick or not:  
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will report a wind bearing of zero when the wind is calm
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will continue to report the last wind bearing when the wind stops blowing
|-
| UVDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Ultra Violet decimals
| 1 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
|-
| FTPlogging=0
| Wind10MinAverage=0
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Legacy Cumulus
| FTP logging
| Common Options
| Depends on release installed:
| Calculate average wind speed  
# (Releases 3.1.0 to 3.10.5) Internet Settings &rarr;  &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
# (Releases 3.11.0 to 3.11.4) Program Settings &rarr; Program General Options
# (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Program Settings &rarr; Logging Options
| (n/a)
| (n/a)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX in standard FTP mode add output to [[ftplog.txt]].
to issue instruction to the web server so it creates the new file with a new name and then renames it to the required name  (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable updates to '''ftplog.txt'''
For other types of file transfer (STTP, FTPS), any extra diagnostic information appears in latest log in [[MXdiags folder]]
|-
| FTPRename=1
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| (depends on release)
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| FTP rename
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to issue instruction to the web server so it creates the new file with a new name and then renames it to the required name  (this is the option appropriate to most servers)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
The chief advantage of using rename is that it minimises the time that the web server cannot serve a file (while it is being updated)
|-
| Host=
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Host name
| (blank)
| This is either the name, or the IP address, of the ftp server to which you connect when you upload pages to your web site.
|-
| IncludeMoonImage=1
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.5.0
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
| (FTP) Upload Moon image file
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer moon image file to your local web server (need to select "Generate Moon Image" see '''MoonImageEnabled=''' too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| IntervalFtpEnabled=1
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ??
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Settings
| Enable file transfer update interval
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to make standard interval file transfer actions
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if either no web server, or have selected '''LocalCopyEnabled''' (see below)
|-
| ListWebTags=0
| [Station]
| Legacy Cumulus
| Only from Release 3.12.0
| Depends on release:
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
* (3.12.0 onwards) Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to create ''WebTags.txt'' file when Cumulus is restarted (contains an unordered list of all the tag names your Cumulus build will recognise and process)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| LocalCopyEnabled=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| Enable local copy update interval
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to make standard interval file copy actions
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if either no web server, or have selected file transfer '''IntervalFtpEnabled''' (see previous)
|-
| LocalCopyFolder=
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Configuration
| (blank)
| Folder (including path) to which MX will copy the standard files (see rows marked ^ for further selections) if 'EnableLocalCopy' is enabled
|-
| MoonImageEnabled=1
| [Graphs]
| Release 3.5.0
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
| Generate Moon Image
| ^ Default controlled by selection of default web site
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to use System Drawing to modify CumulusMX/web/MoonBaseImage.png and create CumulusMX/web/moon.png
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you don't need MX to create a "moon.png"
|-
| MoonImageSize=
| [Graphs]
| Release 3.5.0
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Moon Image
| Image size
| ???
| Enter a size (in pixels) for the generated moon image (according to space on your web page)
|-
| Password=
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Password
| (blank)
| The password for your FTP/SFTP/FTPS connection (masked out on settings page, shown in plain text in file)
|-
| Port=21
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| FTP port
| 21 (plain FTP)
|you normally use either standard FTP (port=21), SSH for FTP i.e. SFTP (port=22), or SSL/TLS (deprecated Secure Sockets Layer and replacement Transport Layer Security) i.e.FTPS (port=990 normally, may be 25). If you get connection refused, messages in the MXdiags log, then you may need to try alternative protocol and/or alternative ports.
|-
| RealtimeFTPEnabled=0
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Enable realtime FTP
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to be able to do file transfers at real-time interval
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeGaugesTxtCopy=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtimegauges.txt
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeGaugesTxtCreate=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtimegauges.txt &rarr; Generate
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeGaugesTxtFTP=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtimegauges.txt &rarr; File Transfer
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[SteelSeries_Gauges|realtimegauges.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeInterval=45000
| [FTP site]
| Legacy Cumulus
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| Realtime interval
| 45000 milliseconds (45 seconds)
| Enter interval time in seconds (decimals allowed), stored in file converted to milliseconds
|-
| RealtimeTxtCopy=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.12.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtime.txt
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to copy the [[realtime.txt]] file to your local web server (need to select "Generate" too)
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeTxtCreate=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtime.txt &rarr; Generate
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to generate the [[realtime.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RealtimeTxtFTP=0
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.10.0
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Realtime Settings
| realtime.txt &rarr; File Transfer
| 0
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to file transfer the [[realtime.txt]] file
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to disable
|-
| RecordSetTimeoutHrs=24
| [Station]
| Release 3.5.1
| Only from Release 3.12.0
| Depends on release:
* (3.5.1 to 3.11.4) Manual edit of file
* (3.12.0 onwards) '''Two places''':
*# Station setings &rarr; General Settings &rarr; Advanced options
*# Station settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced options
| Depends on where changed (respectively):
# New record timeout
# Record set timeout
| 24
| Number of hours before the following web tags are reset: TempRecordSet, WindRecordSet, RainRecordSet, HumidityRecordSet, PressureRecordSet, HighTempRecordSet, LowTempRecordSet, HighAppTempRecordSet, LowAppTempRecordSet, HighHeatIndexRecordSet, LowWindChillRecordSet, HighMinTempRecordSet, LowMaxTempRecordSet, HighDewPointRecordSet, LowDewPointRecordSet, HighWindGustRecordSet, HighWindSpeedRecordSet, HighRainRateRecordSet, HighHourlyRainRecordSet, HighDailyRainRecordSet, HighMonthlyRainRecordSet, HighHumidityRecordSet, HighWindrunRecordSet, LowHumidityRecordSet, HighPressureRecordSet, LowPressureRecordSet, LongestDryPeriodRecordSet, LongestWetPeriodRecordSet, HighTempRangeRecordSet, LowTempRangeRecordSet
|-
| Sslftp=
| [FTP site]
| MX beta
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Select the FTP Protocol to use
| 0
| Drop down list:
* 0 = FTP (plain old FTP) - default
* 1 = Use SSL/TLS (deprecated Secure Sockets Layer and replacement Transport Layer Security) for FTP (FTPS)
* 2 = Use Secure Shell Home (SSH) for FTP (SFTP)
|-
| SshFtpAuthentication=Password
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.8.2 - build 3092
| Only if SFTP selected above
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| SFTP Authentication method
| Password
|Drop down list:
* 0 = Password
* 1 = Pre-shared key
* 2 = Password or pre-shared key
|-
| SshFtpPskFile=
| [FTP site]
| Release 3.8.2 - build 3092
| only if 1 or 2 selected in previous setting
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Pre-shared Private Key file for SFTP
| (blank)
| Filename for your private PSK file, include the full path if the file is not in same folder as  CumulusMX.exe
|-
| UpdateInterval=60
| [FTP site]
| legacy software
| ^
| Internet Settings &rarr; Interval Settings
| Web interval
| 60
| Interval between standard web updates in minutes
|-
| Username=
| [FTP site]
| legacy software
| (always)
| Internet Settings &rarr; Web/FTP Site
| Username
| (blank)
| the user name for connecting to your server
|-
| UTF8encode=
| [FTP site]
| legacy software
| (always)
| (depends on release)
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Settings &rarr; General Settings
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site &rarr; General Settings
| UTF-8 encoding
| Default depends on release:
* (Legacy versions and MX up to 3.9.7) 0 (ISO 8859-1 character set)
* (Release 3.10.0 on) 1 (UTF-8 encoding enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to use [[Reports_folder#Encoding|'''UTF-8''' encoding]] in all [[:Category:JSON Files|.json files]]
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) and MX will create its .json files using '''ISO 8859-1 character set''', ''please note that this encoding is incompatible with [[New_Default_Web_Site_Information#Installing_the_new_template_for_new_users|web pages]] included in '''webfiles''' folder''; so if you upgrade from an earlier release, you may need to change this setting
|-
|WebcamURL=
| [Web Site]
| Legacy Software
| (always)
| (depends on release)
* (releases 3.0.0 to 3.11.4)  Internet Settings &rarr; Web Site
* (release 3.12.0 on)  Internet Settings &rarr; Miscellaneous
| Webcam URL
| (blank)
| Can be used to add a link to any other web page, you have on any web server. In default web pages will be labelled as "web cam", but for your own web pages, this might lead to a home or blog page.
|}
 
==Program Start-up Options==
 
* Introduced release 3.9.4 - b3099
* File Section is [Program]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:160px" | MX Section
!style="width:160px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
|StartupPingHost=
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
|Host to PING on program start-up
|None (no remote host)
| Add a hostname or IP to address to ping at startup. Cumulus waits until the ping is successful before trying to read from your station. Leave blank to disable
|-
|StartupPingEscapeTime=999
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
|PING escape time (mins)
|999 (minutes)
|Specify a time after which if no ping response is received carry on starting Cumulus MX anyway
|-
|StartupDelaySecs=0
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
|Start-up Delay (secs)
|zero (no delay)
|Add a delay before the Cumulus tries to start reading the station.
|-
|StartupDelayMaxUptime=300
| Program Settings &rarr; Program Start-up Options
|Max system uptime to apply the start-up delay
|300 (seconds equivalent to 5 minutes)
|The time that has passed sice MX was started (up-time) is compared against the (max delay time) figure here.
*If max delay time less than up-time, the delay specified in previous parameter will NOT be applied
*If up-time less than this max delay time, then MX will apply any delay specified in previous parameter
*If this parameter is set to zero, then MX will always apply any delay specified in previous parameter
|}
 
==Proxy==
 
This is a continuation of an experimental legacy Cumulus software feature, please see [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=728 here for request] and see [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)#Proxies|here]] for potential content.  I have not seen any evidence that this feature ever came out of beta, and nobody has ever commented on its use, so I see no reason to do any further documentation.
 
==Station specific alternatives==
 
A number of settings are shown only for specific station types, and so the following tables are grouped here.
 
Since MX is being developed by someone who uses a Davis station, a lot of "Labels on the Settings Screens" mention "Davis" even if you have selected a different station, because the code was written by copy and paste!
 
=== Solar===
 
Cumulus MX is unable to work out if you have a solar sensor, so these options are always displayed.
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-
| SolarCalc=0
| [Solar]
| 3.13
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
| Solar Calculation Method
|  0=Ryan-Stololzenbach
| Drop-down list:
*  0=Ryan-Stololzenbach
* 1=Bras
|-
| SunThreshold=75
| [Solar]
| 3.13
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
| Sun Threshold (percent)
| 75
| Enter a number
|-
| SolarMinimum=0
| [Solar]
| 3.13
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
| Solar minimum (W/m2)
| 30
| Enter a number
|-
| RStransfactorJul=0.80000000000000004
| [Solar]
| 3.14
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
| RS Transmission factor (June)
 
(Note the internal calculation does apply this to June, but some MX releases were incorrectly typed to say "July" on the settings screen).
| 0.8
| MX does a sinusoidal interpolation between this value and the next. So this June factor changes very little either side of that solstice, with the average value from both factors applying at the equinoxes (March and September) and different amounts of each factor each side of equinox.  (So actually more like a cosine interpolation!)
|-
| RStransfactorDec=0.80000000000000004
| [Solar]
| 3.14
| Station Settings &rarr; Solar
| RS Transmission factor (December)
| 0.8
| MX does a sinusoidal interpolation between last value and this one. So this December factor changes very little either side of that solstice,  with the average value from both factors applying at the equinoxes (March and September) and different amounts of each factor each side of equinox.  (So actually more like a cosine interpolation!)
|-
| UseBlakeLarsen=0
| [Solar]
| Legacy
| Extra Sensor Settings
| Blake-Larsen Sunshine Recorder
| 0=deselected
| checkbox
|}
 
===Selecting the weather station type determines which options are shown===
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-
|Type= -1
| [Station]
| 0 (all releases), 1 (Early legacy releases), 2 and 3 (from version 1.7.0), 4 (from version 1.7.12), 5 (from version 1.8.0), 6 (from version 1.8.3), 7 (from version 1.9.1), 8 to 10 (from release 1.9.2), 11 (from a MX beta build), and 12 (from release 3.2.0)
| Station Settings &rarr; General Settings
| Station type
| -1 (not yet defined)
| Drop-down
* -1 = "Select Station", shown before a selection from those below is made
* 0 = Davis Vantage Pro station
* 1 = Davis Vantage Pro2 or Vue station
* 2 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) which have a serial port connection and have wireless connection (e.g. WMR-928 station)
* 3 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) which have a serial port connection and have wired connection (e.g. WM-918 station)
* 4 = Reading from file [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |EasyWeather.dat]] (using EasyWeather software version 6.2, or earlier, running continuously with Cumulus). Fine Offset weather stations that record Solar and UV measurements output to [[EasyWeather_Format#EasyWeatherPlus.dat| EasyWeatherPlus.dat file]] when Easyweather software version 6.x is running. This has the same fields as easyweather.dat, plus two extra fields for Solar and UV data at the end, and so Cumulus can understand the fields you must also have '''LogExtraSensors=1''' set.
'''NOTE:''' You can also use ''Type=4'' if you want to run Cumulus with reduced functionality without a weather station attached, to view historical observations. A full set of (historic) files in the ''data'' subfolder copied from a system with a weather station attached is needed, but in this case, the [[#Introduced for problems with Fine Offset family:| EWFile= ]] attribute should be at its default of not having any filename value.
* 5 = Fine Offset, Maplin, Chas Olsen, MyDEL, Nevada, Watson, Tycon Power, Aercus, etc as defined in [[Supported_Devices#Fine_Offset|Fine Offset section in Supported_Devices article]] ('''without''' solar measurement sensors (with or without solar recharging))
* 6 = For all La Crosse WS23xx models e.g. WS2300
* 7 = Fine Offset/Watson/MyDel etc '''with Solar Sensors''' as defined in [[Supported_Devices#Fine_Offset_with_UV/Light sensor|Fine Offset with UV/Light sensor in Supported_Devices article]].
* 8 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) using [[WMR100-200_Protocol]] e.g. WMR100
* 9 = Oregon Scientific stations and similar re-badged stations (Huger, Radio Shack etc) using [[WMR100-200_Protocol]] e.g. WMR200
* 10 = Instromet (with optional extra solar sensors or without)
* 11 = Davis WLL
* 12 = Ecowitt GW1000 and Froggit DP1500 (and any equivalents)
 
'''Selection made here determines what MX sections appear on the Station Settings page
|-
| Model=
| [Station]
| Early legacy version
| Station Settings &rarr; General Settings
| Station model
| (empty) 
|The weather station model description that you want output by the web tag &lt;#stationtype>
|}
 
===Airlink===
 
The details in this sub-section need to be checked by someone who uses the relevant hardware.
 
* Introduced Release
* File Section is [AirLink]
* Not Shown on Settings page?
IsWllNode=0
WLv2ApiKey=
WLv2ApiSecret=
AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
In-Enabled=0
In-IPAddress=0.0.0.0
In-WLStationId=-1
In-Hostname=
Out-Enabled=0
Out-IPAddress=0.0.0.0
Out-WLStationId=-1
Out-Hostname=
AQIformula=0
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
|
|}
 
===Davis===
 
Two Wiki sub-sections, that need to be checked by by somebody who uses the relevant functionality:
 
 
====Davis VP/VP2/Vue====
 
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} This table does not yet have all details in it.
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus
* File Section is [Station]
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=0" or "Type=1"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:120px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]
|
|
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
|-
|VP2SleepInterval=500
|
|500 (milli-seconds)
|the period which Cumulus waits between reads of the data from Davis stations, the value is in milliseconds.
* if you suspect that data is being missed, reduce number
*For VirtualVP users, tests revealed that VP2SleepInterval = 1100 seems to work the best. It updates every two seconds with few exceptions.
|-
|VPClosedownTime=x
|
|(default not yet documented)
| x is the number of seconds after the start of the re-connect attempts that you want the program to close itself
|-
|DavisCalcAltPress=1
|
|1
|Davis stations calculate Sea Level Pressure (SLP) from Station Pressure (SP) using a formula based on temperature, humidity, and altitude
 
CWOP require 'Altimeter Pressure' (AP) to be uploaded, i.e. a value calculated simply using altitude.
*0 = Use SLP supplied by Davis
*1 = Convert the SP Davis supplies to AP using the altitude you have supplied.
|-
|SyncDavisClock=0
|
|0
|When set, at Cumulus start-up and at a fixed time (default 04:00, see next parameter) each day, Cumulus will set the Davis VP/VP2 clock to within a minute of the same time as the PC. (From build 3015 for MX).
*0 = Disabled, default (as deselected on the Station Configuration Screen)
*1 = Enabled, ensures that when Cumulus asks the station for data since time X, both recognise X!
|-
|ClockSettingHour=4
|
|4
|Controls what hour of the day the SyncDavisClock activity will take place if it is enabled.
*4 = 04:00 (default value)
*0-23 = 00:00 to 23:00
|-
|VP2ConnectionType=1
|
|
|Weather station connection type
*0 = serial (see next parameter to specify COM port)
*(1 = usb - setting no longer available on screen, remains as default in cumulus.ini for those not using a Davis)
*2 = TCP/IP (see later parameters to specify ports)
Default is type 1, i.e. neither option on screen selected, so if you use a Davis you must select either serial or TCP/IP.
|-
|VP2TCPPort=22222
|
| 2222
|Communications port used if VP type has TCP/IP selected.
|-
|VP2IPAddr=0.0.0.0
|
| 0.0.0.0
|Weather station IP address if VP type has TCP/IP selected.
|-
|VP2PeriodicDisconnectInterval=0
|
|0 (disable)
|When the clock minute changes, Cumulus stops the current stream of data from the console, disconnects, waits for the specified number of milliseconds, to allow the Weatherlink IP to briefly connect to the Davis Weatherlink site. Cumulus then attempts to reconnect.
 
Set it to zero to disable, if you are not using the Weatherlink site.
|-
|LogExtraSensors=0
|
|0
|This is set in the '''Settings''' block on the Station settings screen off the configuration menu. Set this to 1 if you have additional sensors (e.g. a Davis Leaf Wetness probe) to make Cumulus read, display, and log the readings from the sensors. You don't select this for Solar/UV sensors.
|-
|UseDavisLoop2=1
|
|1 (use Loop2)
|The current MX code uses ''LOOP2'' for two purposes. First, it uses the 'peak 10-minute gust' value, to avoid the problem where a gust might be missed, and secondly it uses the 'absolute pressure' value to make calculation of 'altimeter pressure' easier and more accurate. This is mainly used if you upload to CWOP.
*1 (default) = Cumulus MX will use the LOOP2 packet for Davis Weather Stations by default.  The LOOP2 packet is supported on the VP2 with firmware version 1.90 or later, and on the Vue.
*0 = Select this if you have a Vantage Pro (i.e. the original 'VP1'), or a VP2 with pre-1.90 firmware, or if you are using Virtual VP, none of these support the LOOP2 packet.
 
Without this setting, Cumulus will revert to calculating the 10-minute gust value itself from the individual wind speed readings, but it will not currently attempt to calculate altimeter pressure correctly, it will simply use the sea-level pressure instead. This is likely to be an issue if you are at high altitude and you upload to CWOP using Cumulus MX.
|-
|DavisIPResponseTime=500
|
|500
|The length of time in milliseconds which Cumulus waits to allow a response from the console to a command (i.e. a request for any kind of data) from an IP logger, see Cumulus MX forum where times up to 2000ms are suggested.
|-
|ForceVPBarUpdate=0
|
|0 (normal)
| Added in build 3042 (January 2017).
 
The default (value=0) is to assume standard barometer updates on Davis stations. Set to 1, by adding ForceVPBarUpdate=1 in [Station] section to force more frequent barometer updates on Davis stations. Steve says "Having checked the code, I see it asks for 20 packets from the 'LOOP2' if the barometer forcing is on, otherwise it stops receiving LOOP data after 50 packets". Note that ForceVPBarUpdate=1 is only useful on very old versions of the console firmware.
|-
|DavisIncrementPressureDP=0
|
|1
|(from version 3.0.0 build 3042)
* 0= Pressure values shown to 1 decimal places when reported in mb/hPa, shown to 2 decimal places for inHg
* 1= Pressure values shown to 2 decimal places when reported in mb/hPa, shown to 3 decimal places for inHg
|-
|VPrainGaugeType=0
|
|1
|Specifies the units selected on your Vantage Pro Rain Gauge.
*0 = Metric Rain Adapter fitted, a 0.2mm gauge
*1 = Imperial gauge without adapter, a 0.01" gauge.
Note that if the units you choose for rainfall do not match your rain gauge type, conversion rounding errors will then occur.
|-
|DataLogging=0
|
|0
|(Build 3018 onwards).
*0 (default) = Cumulus MX will not add extra logging.
*1 = To add extra logging to the diags file for data received from Davis stations. Use this with care, the log will get very large.
I've also added some more diagnostics to try to find the cause of the problem where data stops being read from Davis stations. Debug logging is required to be turned on. (Build 3022 onwards).
|-
|AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
|
|1
|default = 1, set to 0 to switch off the WLL autodetection of IP address. This is a workaround for a WLL firmware bug that does not update the IP address when it changes using DHCP.
|-
|ZeroConfig
|
|(default not known)
|set this on station settings screen; to enable/disable the entry/update of the stations IP address via auto-discovery
|}
 
====Davis WeatherLink Live====
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} This table has not been populated yet
* Introduced in a MX beta build
* File Section is [WLL]
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=11"
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]
|
|
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
|-
|
|
|
|
|}
 
===EasyWeather (Reading File instead of connecting to a Weather Station)===
 
This sub-section is based on what applied for the legacy software, assuming nothing has changed for MX.
 
* Introduced in a Legacy version
* File Section is [Station]
* MX Section is "EasyWeather File Settings"
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=4"
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:120px" | Default
!style="width:800px" | Description
|-
| EWInterval=10
| File Read Interval
| 10 (minutes between new line becoming available in file)
| Cumulus needs to know how often to read a new record from the easyweather.dat file. Enter any number in box.
*0= Default, meaning not applicable
*n= any positive decimal value representing Easyweather version 6.2, or earlier, logging interval in minutes  (used for reading single latest observations from [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |Easyweather]] software output). Note to specify seconds, use decimal minutes, e.g. 30 seconds = 0.5
|-
| EWFile=
| Filename
| (empty)
| * Full file path/name for [[EasyWeather_Format#Usage_of_easyweather.dat_fields_for_Cumulus_input_of_latest_record: |Easyweather.dat or EasyWeatherPlus.dat]]
* (empty) (i.e. attribute and equals sign, but no value)  '''Note:''' If you want to run Cumulus without an attached weather station (because your station has a fault or because you have a second PC), it is possible to run Cumulus with station '''Type=4''' but with the default of no file specified in this parameter. The full Cumulus directory structure and its files including those in the ''data'' sub-directory are needed (kept from when your station was working or copied from the PC with the station). Although only the old observations can be accessed, (no new ones are being added), this does allow analysis of the old observations via all Cumulus features
 
See [[FAQ#Cumulus_isn.27t_performing_periodic_tasks.2C_like_data_logging_or_web_uploads|FAQ here]] for reduced functionality using Cumulus 1 in this way.
|-
| EWminpressureMB=900
| Minimum Pressure Value
| 900
| Cumulus will ignore all pressure readings from the station that are less than this value (units are always hPa/millibars)
|-
| EWmaxpressureMB=1200
| Maximum Pressure Value
| 1200
| Cumulus will ignore all pressure readings from the station that are greater than this value (units are always hPa/millibars)
|-
| EWMaxRainTipDiff=40
| Rain Tip Difference
| Default=30 tips in Cumulus 1, MX default is 40 tips
| This configurable threshold is the maximum feasible amount of rain between updates (i.e. within 48-seconds on Fine Offset stations without solar, 60 seconds on those measuring solar), set in units of count of tips.
 
For standard Fine Offset rain gauges, each tip represents 0.3mm, so 30 tips are equivalent to 9 mm, or just over a third of an inch in 48 seconds.
 
This setting affects rain rate, rain last hour, rain so far today (and what is recorded in today.ini/dayfile.txt), but does not affect the web tag <#r24hour>.
|-
| EWpressureoffset=x.y
| Pressure Offset
| 9999
| The pressure that Cumulus MX processes is equal to what read in the file plus the value set for this parameter. Normally used to convert the station pressure to the equivalent Sea Level Pressure.
|}
 
===Ecowitt GW1000 and Froggit DP1500 (and any equivalents) specific===
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} An Ecowitt user needs to check/update this sub-section, it is understood significant changes are included in 3.12.0 beta builds, but the forum does not give away any details
 
* Introduced in release 3.2.0
* File Section is [GW100]
* MX Section is "Ecowitt GW1000 Settings"
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if "Type=12"
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
|AutoUpdateIpAddress=1
|Auto-discovery
|1 (selected)
|Should MX attempt to discover IP address
*0=Disable
*1=Enable
|-
|IPAddress=
|IP address
|(no default)
| stores the IP address of your GW1000 WiFi logger
|-
|MACAddress=
|MAC addresss
|(no default)
|Populated by MX when auto-discovery enabled
|}
 
 
===Fine Offset Stations===
 
* Introduced in a Legacy version
* File Section is [Station]
* MX Section is "Fine Offset Settings"
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=5" or "Type=7"
 
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-
| FOReadAvoidPeriod=3
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| Read Avoid Period
| 3 (seconds)
| If previous setting enabled, MX will avoid reading the circular memory from the number of seconds specified before it expects Fine Offset to be writing to the circular memory, to the number of seconds specified after it expects Fine Offset to be writing to the circular memory
 
(One issue is that Fine Offset will move from one position to the next position in the circular memory, at the Fine Offset Logging Interval, but will delay this move by up to one minute, if the existing memory position is actually being updated by a read from the sensors and normally those updates happen every 40 seconds for non-solar sensors, and every 60 seconds for solar sensor)
|-
| ??
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| Set the Fine Offset Logger interval to match Cumulus MX interval
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not - labelled as "Experimental - use with caution"
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to "update the Davis interval" (I said copy and paste was used from Davis section!) to match the interval MX is using.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for no effect on your weather station
|-
| FineOffsetReadTime=150
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| Request/Read Delay
| 150 (milliseconds)
| Adjust time (in milliseconds) between request for read, and actual attempt to read data via USB
|-
| ProductID=-1
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| USB Product Id (PID)
| -1 (default setting)
| Advanced setting if you don't want to leave it to MX to find your HID
|-
| SyncFOReads=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Settings
| Synchronise Reads
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to work out when your Fine Offset is writing data to the console log, so that MX does not read the Fine Offset circular memory when it is being updated
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to read the Fine Offset circular memory whenever it next wants data
 
# The parameter was added for legacy releases, to try to reduce the occurrence of "lock-up" issues.
# MX uses a different way to interrogate Fine Offset stations, originally ticking this could result in more reads being skipped, than actually processed, potentially updating just a few times a day, so it was best disabled!
# The MX code relating to this parameter was rewritten 1n 3.11.0, but the developer labels this as an "attempt", so it may still be best to try to manage without enabling this setting
|-
| VendorID=-1
| MX release ??
| Only if Fine Offset selected
| Station Settings &rarr; Fine Offset Advanced Settings
| USB Vendor Id (PID)
| -1 (default setting)
| Advanced setting if you don't want to leave it to MX to find your HID
|}
 
===Instromet Settings===
 
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} The following table has some gaps to fill in, needs a contributor who uses this type of weather station
 
* Introduced in a Legacy version
* File Section is [Station]
* MX Section is "Instromet Settings" or "Instromet Advanced Options" as indicated
* Only "Shown on Settings page" if either "Type=5" or "Type=7"
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:300px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:600px" | Description
|-
| ComportName=xxxxxx
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Settings
| Serial port name
| /dev/ttyUSB0 (on Linux), COM1 (on Microsoft Windows)
| Only required if your station is connected via a real, or virtual, serial port
|-
|ImetBaudRate=19200
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Settings
| Serial Baud Rate (DavisBaudRate)
| 19200
| Some ?older? Instromet loggers operate at 115200, if you have one of these older loggers you will need to reset this value
|-
| "SyncDavisClock=0" and "ClockSettingHour=4"
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| "Sychronise Station Clock" and "Clock sync hour"
| Tick box not selected, data box set to 4
| Note despite the name of the parameter within 'Cumulus.ini', this does apply to Instromet stations.
 
*Simple tick or not
** Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to attempt to sychronise the Instromet Station Clock with your computer time. This ensures that when Cumulus asks the station for data since time X, both recognise X as representing same time!
** Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) if you don't want MX to attempt to keep station clock in line with computer clock
* Box taking an integer
** The hour of the day when,  if enabled, Cumulus will set the Instromet clock to within a minute of the same time as the computer. This will happen at a default time of 04:00 each day, (4 a.m.) unless the setting box is edited
|-
| ImetUpdateLogPointer=1
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| Update logger pointer
| 1 (enabled)
| Simple tick or not
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) for MX to update the memory pointer to the last record after every 30 data reads
* Don't tick to disable this action
|-
|ImetWaitTime=500
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
| Delay between sending data read commands
| 500
| Specifies the time in milliseconds that Cumulus waits after one read, before it does the next read from an Instromet station. According to the specification, 500 ms is the absolute maximum time that the station should take to respond to any command.  For Cumulus 1, the default was 200 milli-seconds, so you might try that too.
|-
| ImetReadDelay=500
| Station Settings &rarr; Instromet Advanced Options
|  Delay after sending a command before trying to read data from the serial port
| 500
| Specifies the time in milliseconds that Cumulus allows after sending a command before it tries to read data on the serial port. According to the specification, 500 ms is the absolute maximum time that the station should take to respond to any command.  For Cumulus 1, the default was 200 milli-seconds, so you might try that too.
|}
 
 
===LaCrosse stations===
 
 
 
{{Template:WorkInProgressBanner}} The following table has some gaps to fill in, needs a contributor who uses this type of weather station
 
 
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Shown on Settings page?
!style="width:100px" | File Section
!style="width:150px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page (mostly in '''Alarm''' column)
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-
| LCMaxWind=X
| Shown only if La Crosse was selected as station type
| [Station]
| 3.12.0
| Depends on release:
* (Version 1.8.8 Build 874 to release 3.11.4) Need to edit manually in file directly
* (Release 3.12.0 onwards) Station Settings &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| La Crosse max wind speed
| ???
| It is setting for the La Crosse max wind speed, where X is the maximum (before calibrated by any definitions in Offsets) wind speed in m/s that you want to allow. The value you supply should be in metres/second, regardless of what wind unit you are using in Cumulus
|}
 
It is assumed that [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)#La_Crosse_specific:|most parameters remain same]]
 
===Oregon Scientific WM918/WMR928 Settings===
 
The Oregon Scientific code has not changed since the earliest beta MX (3.0.0) builds based on moving compiled code from Cumulus 1. 
 
It appears very few current Cumulus users own these obsolete models, so all these settings have to be added directly into the file, you can't edit them in the admin interface, and they will be missing from any configuration file created by any MX release.
 
* Introduced for legacy Cumulus, and unchanged by MX
* File Section is [Station], these settings need to be manually entered into file below that section heading
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | External to MX edit
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-
|style="background:lightgray;"|[Station]
|
|
|style="background:lightgray;"|Section name - the following parameters appear in Station section
|-
|Humidity98Fix=0
| Stop MX and add this into file
|0 (disable)
|Applies to weather station types that never report more than 98% relative humidity.
*0 = Disabled (default)
*1 = Enabled, humidity displayed and recorded as 100% if your sensor registers a relative humidity of 98%.  Normally only useful for Oregon Scientific stations.
|-
|LogExtraSensors=0
| Stop MX and add this into file
|0 (disable)
|This setting determines whether MX looks for readings from extra temperature probes etc.
*0=Disabled (default)
*1= Enabled - Used for Oregon Scientific WMR-928 and similar stations if you have additional sensors (e.g. another temperature probe) to make Cumulus read, display, and log the readings from those sensors. You don't use this for Solar/UV sensors..
|-
|WMR928TempChannel=N
| Stop MX and add this into file
|(by default no extra sensors)
|for WMR-928 stations (and other serial stations using the same protocol, eg WMR-968) to use an 'extra' channel  (see previous parameter) as your main temperature sensor, set N to the required channel
|-
|WMR200TempChannel=N
| Stop MX and add this into file
|(by default no extra sensors)
|for WMR200 stations (and any other Oregon Scientific USB stations which work with Cumulus, e.g. WMR100) to use an 'extra' channel as your main temperature sensor, set N to the required channel
|}
 
==Units, Derivative Options,  and Decimal Places==
 
For altitude units, please see [[#Location]].
 
* File Section is [Station]
* Edit on Station Settings page (except where indicated in bold as another page)
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
!style="width:30px" | Parameter Line Entry
!style="width:100px" | Introduced
!style="width:100px" | MX Section
!style="width:60px" | Label on Settings page
!style="width:20px" | Default
!style="width:300px" | Description
|-
| AirQualityDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Air Quality decimals
| 1  (displayed as blank)
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
|-
| AvgBearingMinutes=10
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Average Bearing Minutes
| 10 (minutes)
| This parameter's value is the number of minutes over which Cumulus calculates (by treating the wind as a vector and taking into account the speed as well as direction) its average bearing
|-
| AvgSpeedMinutes=10
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Average Speed Minutes
| 10 (minutes)
| This parameter's value is the number of minutes over which Cumulus averages out reported current wind speeds
|-
| CalculatedDP=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Calculate dew point
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will calculate dew point from temperature and humidity supplied by station
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) action depends on '''Calibration settings'''
** If Cumulus has non-default multiplier and/or offset settings for temperature or humidity, Cumulus will calculate dew-point. This avoids the restriction in the Oregon Scientific stations where the dew point can never be below freezing point.
** If station provides dew point, then that will be used provided no multiplier/offsets have been specified for temperature or humidity
|-
| CalculatedWC=1
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Calculate wind chill
| Unticked (shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will calculate wind chill from temperature and wind speed
** Note that there is a maximum temperature, and minimum wind speed, for Cumulus to make the calculation, see [[Wind_chill]] page
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) action depends on other items:
** If Cumulus has non-default multiplier and/or offset settings for temperature or wind speed, Cumulus will calculate wind chill
** If station does NOT make a wind chill value available to Cumulus,  Cumulus MX reports an error if you have not ticked this setting, (that is different to how the setting worked with the legacy software).
** If station provides wind chill, then that value will be used provided no multiplier/offsets have been specified for temperature or wind speed.
|-
| ChillHourSeasonStart=
| Legacy Cumulus
| Chill Hours
| Chill Season Starts
| Default depends on release
* (up to 3.11.4) 10 = October
* (from 3.12.0) 4 in Southern hemisphere, 10 in Northern hemisphere
| The value to enter is the month number (1=January, 12=December) and the Cumulative Chill Hours Count is reset to zero on the first of the selected month
|-
| ChillHourThreshold=
| Legacy Cumulus
| Chill Hours
| Chill Hours
| Default depends on Temperature Units
* Either 45 degrees Fahrenheit (equivalent to 7.22 <sup>o</sup>Celsius)
* Or 7 degrees Celsius (equivalent to 44.6 <sup>o</sup>Fahrenheit)
| Chill Hours are incremented by the number of (fractional) hours that the air temperature is below the threshold. In practice, Cumulus simply detects if the current temperature is below the threshold and adds an increment equivalent to the (interval) time passed since the last temperature reading.
* You can put in any value you want, with a decimal place if required
* Some people have put in the freezing-point temperature (0<sup>o</sup>C or 32 <sup>o</sup>F) and they relabel "chill hours" to "frost hours"
|-
| CloudBaseInFeet=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| (As at 3.11.4, can only adjust in the file)
|
| 0 (default in MX is metres)
| Select units used for reporting theoretical cloud base:
* 0 = metres (default if file created by MX)
* 1 = feet (default if file created by legacy software)
|-
| ErrorLogSpikeRemoval=1
| Legacy Cumulus
| '''Calibration Settings''' &rarr; Final tick box
| Log spike and limit violations to error log
| 1 (default in MX is enabled)
| Log spike and limit violations to error log (in MX this is in [[MXdiags folder]]):
* 1 = do log (default if file created by MX)
* 0 = don't log (default if file created by legacy software)
|-
| HourlyForecast=1
| Legacy Cumulus
| Forecast
| Update forecast hourly
| 1 (default in MX is enabled)
| When Cumulus derives its Zambretti forecast
 
Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will derive a Zambretti forecast just once an hour, on the hour
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to derive a forecast every time MX does a process of the pressure reading
|-
| Humidity98Fix=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Max humidity
| 0 (disable)
| For any weather station that never reports a relative humidity greater than 98%
 
Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then if weather station reading is 98%, process that as 100% for all outputs from MX
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) to always report what weather station reports for relative humidity
|-
| PeakGustMinutes=10
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Peak wind gust time
| 10 (minutes)
| MX waits until a gust has been measured for number of minutes specified by value of parameter, before checking whether previous gust extreme record have been exceeded
|-
| PressDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Pressure decimals
| Default depends on Pressure Units  (displayed as blank)
* default is 1 if units are hPa or mb
* default is 2 if units are inches of mercury
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
|-
| PressureUnit=1
| Legacy Cumulus
| Units
| Pressure
| Depends on release:
# Legacy to 3.11.4: 0 (mbar)
# 3.12.0 onwards: 1 (hPa)
 
| Drop-down:
* 0 = millibar (mb)
* 1 = hectoPascals (hPa)
* 2 = inches of mercury (in Hg)
|-
| RainDayThreshold=
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options &rarr; Advanced Options
| Rain day threshold
| Default is -1 which depends on Rainfall Units AND station type
* -1 = normally 0.2 if units are millimetres
* -1 = normally 0.01 if units are inches
* Otherwise enter a value in your selected units
| For derivatives like count of consecutive wet/dry days, any daily rainfall less than this threshold will be ignored.
 
(If rainfall is measured in tips, usually set to just over one tip, as first tip of day might be result of less that one tip accumulated on earlier days or because of dew)
|-
| RainDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Rainfall decimals
| Default depends on Rainfall Units  (displayed as blank)
* default is 1 if units are millimetres
* default is 2 if units are inches
| Number of decimal places for all outputs
|-
| RainSeasonStart=1
| Legacy Cumulus
| Annual Rainfall
| Start of rainfall season
| 1 (Jan)
| Drop-down
* 1 = January
* 2 = February
* 3 = March
...
* 9 = September
* 10 = October
* 11 = November
* 12 = December
 
Added in late 2010 because Cumulus users in Israel said they do not total rainfall from January.
 
It was welcomed by people outside Israel, it turned out growers are often interested in a growing season rainfall total
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| RainUnit=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Units
| Rain
| 0 (mm)
| Drop-down:
* 0 = millimetres
* 1 = inches
|-
| RoundWindSpeed=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Rounding of wind speed
| 0 (no)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will round all the wind speeds it reports to nearest integer
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will report wind speeds to the precision defined in "WindSpeedDecimals" parameter
|-
| SunshineHrsDecimals=2
| Release 3.8.0
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Sunshine hours decimals
| 2 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
| TempDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Temperature decimals
| 1 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
| TempUnit=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Units
| Temperature
| 0 (<sup>o</sup>C
| Drop-down:
* 0 = Celsius
* 1 = Fahrenheit
|-
| UseCumulusForecast=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Forecast
| Use Cumulus Forecast
| 0 (disabled)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then Cumulus will generate a simple weather Zambretti forecast, if your station does not supply a forecast, or as an alternative to the one supplied by your station. Please see [[Forecast_webtag]] for details.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will not do any forecasting, so it will return "not available" unless your weather station provides an alternative forecast
|-
| UseCumulusPresstrendstr=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Cumulus pressure trend names
| 0 (depends on weather station type)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will generate the name for the current pressure trend, e.g. "Falling", "Rising quickly" etc, instead of the one supplied by your station. The names used are those in the UK Shipping Forecast, but can be modified using [[strings.ini]].
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then effect depends on whether your weather station supplies pressure trends
** If your station does supply pressure trends, then MX will use those
** If your station does not supply pressure trends, then MX will generate the name for the current pressure trend, e.g. "Falling", "Rising quickly" etc, instead of the one supplied by your station. The names used are those in the UK Shipping Forecast, but can be modified using [[strings.ini]].
|-
| UseSpeedForAvgCalc=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Use speed for average calculation
| 0 (disable)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will use what the weather station supplies as "wind speed" to calculate the average wind speed.
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will use what the weather station supplies as "latest wind speed" to calculate the average wind speed
Please see [[Wind_measurement#Weather_Stations_and_Cumulus]] for more details.
|-
| UseZeroBearing=1
| Legacy Software
| Common Options
| Use bearing zero when calm
| 1 (enable)
| Simple tick or not:
* Tick (value shown as 1 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will report a wind bearing of zero when the wind is calm
* Don't tick (value shown as 0 in Cumulus.ini) then MX will continue to report the last wind bearing when the wind stops blowing
|-
| UVDecimals=1
| Release 3.9.2
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Ultra Violet decimals
| 1 (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
| Wind10MinAverage=0
| Legacy Cumulus
| Common Options
| Calculate average wind speed  
| 0 (disable)
| 0 (disable)
| Simple tick or not:  
| Simple tick or not:  
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| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
|-
|-
| WindSpeedAvgDecimals=1
| WindSpeedAvgDecimals=
| Release 3.8.3
| Release 3.8.3
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Wind speed average decimals
| Wind speed average decimals
| 1 (displayed as blank)
| (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default. (NOTE: If the weather station does not provide an average wind speed, or if the user requires a change of units from how the weather station reports it,  then CMX will calculate it to 1 decimal place by default; otherwise average wind speed will default to integer, or to one decimal place, depending how it is provided by the station).
|-
|-
| WindSpeedDecimals=2
| WindSpeedDecimals=
| Release 3.8.3
| Release 3.8.3
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Units &rarr; Advanced Options (Here be dragons!)
| Wind speed average decimals
| Wind speed average decimals
| 2 (displayed as blank)
| (displayed as blank)
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default
| Select a number of decimal places to overwrite the default which depends both on the weather station type and what units have been selected by user (speeds are normally reported as integers unless metres per second are reporting unit, because most sensors are not precise enough to give any decimal places in other units)
|-
|-
| WindUnit=0
| WindUnit=0
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| (displayed as blank)
| (displayed as blank)
| Enter a 4 digit year:
| Enter a 4 digit year:
* Legacy Releases (1.7.12 5 July 2008) and MX up to 3.11.4 (build 3133 25 May 2021): The year-to-date amount in previous parameter is added to the current (seasonal) rain if the year specified in this parameter matches the current year.  
* Legacy Releases (1.7.12 from 5 July 2008) and MX up to 3.11.4 (build 3133 from 25 May 2021): The year-to-date amount in previous parameter is added to the current (seasonal) rain if the year specified in this parameter matches the current year.  
** If your rain season starts in January (default) then set this to the calendar year when you first use Cumulus (in a particular location).   
** If your rain season starts in January (default) then set this to the calendar year when you first use Cumulus (in a particular location).   
** If your rain year starts in any other month, set this to this year if your first season starts this year, and set this to last year if your second season has started and you don't want the previous value added to your second season
** If your rain year starts in any other month, set this to the current calendar year during your first season (remember to change the year mid-season when reach 1 January), and delete the year when your second season starts as you don't want the previous value added to your second season
* From Release 3.12.0 (?? July 2021), the current calendar year is compared against  (current month - season start month + 1) year, so you enter the year in which your first season starts (be that last calendar year or this calendar year)
* From Release 3.12.0 (29 July 2021), the current calendar year is compared against  (current month - season start month + 1) year, so you enter the year in which your first season would start had it been a full season (be that last calendar year or this calendar year)
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