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When Mark is producing a new major version of MX he typically issues it in beta to a restricted number of users by email, he does not make any beta release public. For this reason, it is not anticipated there is going to be any use of the [[Cumulus.ini_(Beta)|Cumulus.ini Beta article]] while Cumulus 3 (MX) continues to develop, although of course a Cumulus 4 is in development and we wait to see what might happen when that is ready for a public release. | When Mark is producing a new major version of MX he typically issues it in beta to a restricted number of users by email, he does not make any beta release public. For this reason, it is not anticipated there is going to be any use of the [[Cumulus.ini_(Beta)|Cumulus.ini Beta article]] while Cumulus 3 (MX) continues to develop, although of course a Cumulus 4 is in development and we wait to see what might happen when that is ready for a public release. | ||
== Swapping from Cumulus 1 to MX == | |||
If you are '''running MX on Windows''', filenames are not case sensitive, so MX will recognise "Cumulus.ini" or "cumulus.ini". But although Cumulus 1 might recognise "Cumulus1.ini" or anything else other than "Cumulus.ini". MX only recognises "Cumulus.ini". | |||
If you are planning on '''running MX on another device''', filenames are case sensitive, and your Cumulus 1 configuration file must be called "Cumulus.ini" with an initial capital followed by lower case, so it might need to be renamed. | |||
Once it has been processed by MX, the ex Cumulus 1 main configuration file will gain a lot of new entries, and a number will be ignored. | |||
=== Parameters changed === | |||
There are some parameters that are different for Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX, whether you need to change them depends on your set-up. | |||
If you use the standard trends web page: | |||
*Replace: '''IncludeSTDImages=1''' (Cumulus 1) by ''IncludeGraphDataFiles=1'' (Cumulus MX) in [FTP site] | |||
If your weather station uses a serial port type connection: | |||
*Replace: '''Port=n''' (Cumulus 1) where n is a number, by ''ComportName=COMn'' (Cumulus MX on Windows) where the value is a string where n is same number, or replace by '''ComportName=/dev/ttyUSB0''' (CumulusMX on unix device) where the actual device name might need to be different if you have multiple USB ports. | |||
If you use a RG11 rain gauge: | |||
*Replace: '''RG11port=n''' and '''RG11port2 =n''' (Cumulus 1) where n is a number, by '''RG11portName=xxxx''' and '''RG11portName2=yyyy''' (Cumulus MX on Windows) where the value is a string with values as per previous paragraph depending on device on which Cumulus MX is running. | |||
=== Parameters added === | |||
This depends upon which version of MX you install when you move from Cumulus 1, please see all release announcements for details. | |||
= File Structure = | = File Structure = | ||