Cumulus.ini (preserving history): Difference between revisions

If you are using Cumulus 1, all the information is now on [[Cumulus.ini (Cumulus 1)]] page.

The following list of options and allowed values is taken from '''StationOptions.json''' for release 3.10., certain settings determine which other settings are shown:

                        "Oregon Scientific WMR-928",  "Oregon Scientific WM-918", "Oregon Scientific WMR100",  "Oregon Scientific WMR200",

"Location": "A short name for the location", "A longer description of the location",  "Latitude",  "Longitude"

 

"davisvp2": "Serial",  "TCP/IP", "Your station serial port (real or virtual)","Period to disconnect once a minute from IP loggers to allow them to upload to WeatherLink.com. Time in seconds"

                "The UDP multicast port used by the WLL, this will normally be discovered from the WLL"

 

"Options": "Use bearing zero when calm"", "Calculate average wind speed", "Use speed for average calculation", "Use 100% for 98% humidity", "Calculate dew point", "Cumulus pressure trend names", "Round wind speeds to the nearest whole number", "Display and log extra sensors, if fitted", "Make Cumulus MX run even if you do not have the minimum sensors required (temp, press, wind)"

"Forecast": "Use the Zambretti forecast generated by Cumulus", "If using the Cumulus forecast, update only once an hour rather than every data update", "The low pressure extreme for your location", "The high pressure extreme for your location", "The units that you have used for the pressure extremes"

  "Solar": "Select the algorithm to use for solar irradiation calculations", "The percentage of the current theoretical solar value above which the sun should be considered to be shining (default = 75)", "The minimum solar reading for the sun to be considered to be shining (default = 0)", "The R-S transmission factor of the solar radiation through the atmosphere (0.70 - 0.91, default 0.80)", "The Bras turbidity factor (1.00=clear, 5.00=smoggy, default = 2.00)"

  "AnnualRainfall": "Enter a rainfall amount to be added to the total for the year when you started using Cumulus - for the period for which you have no Cumulus data",  "Enter the year to apply the correct to (normally this year or last year) as a four digit number. Leave as zero to disable", "Select the month from which the annual total is to be calculated",

Which parameters are available from this section depends on release of MX being used, and which type of staion you use.

Sets the interval (in seconds) during each 48 (or 60 for some models in Cumulus 1) second of station logging period when Cumulus will avoid reading the station data to try and minimise lock ups. If the clock drifts more than this value in 24 hours, then Cumulus may cause the station to lock up when reading the data. The actual station clock drift gets logged to the diags file when the re-synchronise (see last parameter) takes place, this will give an idea of whether it would be useful to adjust this setting.

 

NOTE: For MX, the word site should be in lower case as shown in left-hand column heading and above.

All settings in this table are controlled in the '''Graphs''' section at the bottom of the '''Station Settings''' page. Note that some are not iun all releases.

[[File:Badge vMx.png]]For MX, there is a default path "\CumulusMX\interface\sounds". '''Edit''' on '''Settings''' tab, '''Alarms''' screen.

{{Version badge 1}}Set these using the '''Edit''' menu, ''Alarms'' screen. The default path and file is '''\Cumulus\alert.wav''' for all the file parameters.  (Previously this article incorrectly showed "C:\Program Files\Cumulus\alert.wav" for some, but that has been removed now this applies to MX as well)