FAQ: Difference between revisions

== Where do I find the Cumulus installer? ==

== What do I need to get right when first getting Cumulus? ==

== Why haven't you added the feature I asked for a long time ago? ==

== How do I upgrade to a new release?  ==

These instructions apply whether you are updating by one build, skipping several builds, upgrading to/from a beta version, or installing the latest 'release' version.  

# "cumulus.exe"; - the latest build

# "unins000.exe";

*So tick this option, if you have a standard Cumulus implementation and then you can be sure to upgrade the standard templates.

*Untick this option if you have  [[Customised_templates#Creating_Your_Own_Templates|customised the existing pages]],  so that if your customised versions  are in "web\*.*" they don't get overwritten. It is recommended that you store any customised pages in a directory outside the Cumulus folder, as you can specify up to 10 such files on the local side of the files tab in the Configuration menu Internet settings screen and (if you are not using standard files) untick ''Include Standard Files'' on the same screen. (100 such files can be specified in [[Cumulus.ini]]).

== Changing to different weather station ==

Yes is the answer for other weather information, providing you can manipulate the information you have into either (preferably) the format used by the [[Monthly_log_files#Importing_pre-Cumulus_data]] or (second best) [[Dayfile.txt]]. Look up those cross-references in this Wiki (or the Cumulus '''Help''') for further information on required formats.  The support forum includes a few threads related to this topic, and if you post there then people who have already imported from particular systems may offer their services to import your past observations.

== I was away on the last day of last month/year - How do I see the final lowest and highest figures for last month/year? ==

== How to restore a corrupted log file ==

Both Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX create a copy of each of the logs in the backup folder, both at end of day rollover, and when the software is (re-)started.  If the corrupted file in 'data' folder is a log holding extremes (not the detailed log created for each month nor 'today.ini'), then the easiest way to remove false extremes recorded recently is to to overwrite the current file with the one from the most recent back-up.  Since 'today.ini' is updated very frequently (every time Cumulus interogates your weather station), it is not advised that you overwrite that file, unless you are able to do a rewind as described in [[#On_restarting_Cumulus.2C_it_did_not_successfully_read_all_data_from_when_it_last_ran|earlier]] answer. If you were to use the backup folder copy of the detailed log, you would lose all of the stored values since the backup, so again only do that in a rewind context where all the files from the backup are overwriting those in data folder, and you simply want to copy in what is still in any station logging memory.

Cumulus 1 provides editors - go to Edit menu and pick the relevant extremes file, the either type over the figures that you want to change or use the buttons that load the more detailed log files and then figures from them can be copied into extreme file. There is an option (in the view menu) to read the latest detailed log for the current (or past) month, but there is no built in editor for those files.

* Remember 'alltimelog.txt' logs each change made to 'alltime.ini' so you don't need to correct the former, but it can help you know how to regress the latter.

== I get error -32710 with Cumulus and my USB Davis station  ==

== When I start Cumulus, the graphs restart again each time and don't show the earlier data  ==

# Correct the rogue values or values in the detailed [[Monthly_log_files]] ''with Cumulus stopped''. Neither Cumulus 1 nor Cumulus MX provides an editor to do this, and you need to guess new values for readings as there is no other file provided by Cumulus to offer any suggestions, often people interpolate between earlier and later readings.

# Correct the [[dayfile.txt|daily summary log]] ''(don't do this near the rollover time)'', the editor in Cumulus 1 requires you to manually change the numbers, unless you delete the whole day (or it was previously missing) and you ask Cumulus to '''Insert missing''' i.e. populate a single line (day) from the detailed log, ignoring any extremes at times between logged readings.

or 2) If you know the correct figures, you can alternatively enter them manually directly into the .ini files and not bother to update the detailed log or the daily summary log. (It is pointless to edit the .ini files directly and then afterwards edit the log files):

== My monthly (month-by-month) all-time records don't have entries for all of the months that I have been using Cumulus ==

You only need to do this once; when you have initialised them, Cumulus will keep them up to date thereafter.

== I have problems after upgrading to Windows 10 ==

= Website =

== How do I configure Cumulus for Secure FTP (SFTP/FTPS)? ==

== Directory related problems in FTP ==

For more advice see the website of your local Meteorological Bureau,  an educational place (e.g. in USA see [http://newa.nysaes.cornell.edu/public/NEWAStationSitingGuidelines.htm Cornell University]), the [http://library.wmo.int/opac/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=12407 World Meterological Organisation] (WMO), or a specialist organisation (e.g. in UK see [http://www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate/observing/guidelines-observing-0 Royal Meteorological Society] rather than the Met Office web site).

If you are contributing to an external site like APRS/CWOP, Weather Underground, PWS weather, Weatherbug and/or WOW, see guidance from these organisations re instrument placement.

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