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-''Extra Sensors'' are a feature already present in Cumulus 1. Ignored for long time by CumulusUtils, with the rise of the [https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/homePage Ecowitt ecology] and the support of CumulusMX for the GW1000 (and higher) devices, it has been decided to make ''Extra Sensors'' a standard module of CumulusUtils.
+''Extra Sensors'' is a feature already present in Cumulus 1. Ignored for long time by CumulusUtils, with the rise of the [https://www.ecowitt.com/shop/homePage Ecowitt ecology] and the support of CumulusMX for the GW1000 (and higher) devices, it has been decided to make ''Extra Sensors'' a standard module of CumulusUtils.
 ''Extra Sensors'' have a certain complexity because they are divers, not configured (or only partly) by the user and there is a lot of redundancy in the logging while another sensor is not being logged (lightning). For the obvious reason of the absence of a log, the lightning sensor will be ignored by CumulusUtils.
-The module requires that the user has ''Extra Sensor'' logging enabled (''CMX menu=>Station Settings=>Common Options=>Log Extra sensors'' must be enabled) AND the user must set the parameter ''ExtraSensors'' in the cumulusutils.ini file to ''true''. This last parameter makes it possible to have ''Extra Sensors'' operational but not display them on the web (if you are generating the website). Once both parameters are set to true the module is active. For the [[Website_Generator|Website Generator]] this means everything is automatically available in the menu of the website. When used as a module it just means that the user can make use of the Sensor valu8es as plotvariables in the [[ChartsCompiler]].
+Please read the paragraph operation carefully and report any difficulty in operating the module both in this Wiki, from within the website or as a module.
-Finally, to make it work, it is required for the user to use strings.ini (copy it from samplestrings.ini in the distribution of CumulusMX) and give the sensors meaningfull names (see below). Sensors which keep their default names will be displayed in the CMX interface but will not be used by CumulusUtils.
 == Operation ==