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{{Version badge 1}}Reminder, this FAQ answer is ONLY for Cumulus 1 | {{Version badge 1}}Reminder, this FAQ answer is ONLY for Cumulus 1 | ||
Cumulus was originally something | ''This text is by the author, Steve Loft'' | ||
Cumulus was originally something I 'knocked together' quickly when I got my first weather station, simply because I couldn't find any other software anywhere which I was prepared to use. | |||
No 'design' went into it, it was really just a prototype. Some of the things I did were just quick 'hacks' that I intended to fix when I did it 'properly'. But I never got around to going back and doing it 'properly', and it was never my intention that anyone else would use it. But I was persuaded to make it available for others, and then to add more and more enhancements. | |||
The fact that it works with several different types of weather station means that much of it is a compromise; it doesn't use certain features of the weather station which it could use if it were dedicated to that type of weather station. For example, it typically does not use any high/low data that the station might store internally. Instead, it maintains its own high/low data from individual readings. There are a number of reasons for this; the fact that Cumulus supports an 0900-0900 day, and the weather station does not, and the fact that typically Cumulus maintains far more high/low values than the station does, and these need to be self-consistent. | The fact that it works with several different types of weather station means that much of it is a compromise; it doesn't use certain features of the weather station which it could use if it were dedicated to that type of weather station. For example, it typically does not use any high/low data that the station might store internally. Instead, it maintains its own high/low data from individual readings. There are a number of reasons for this; the fact that Cumulus supports an 0900-0900 day, and the weather station does not, and the fact that typically Cumulus maintains far more high/low values than the station does, and these need to be self-consistent. | ||
So yes, I am aware that some of things that Cumulus does may seem strange, but it is simply not possible for me to start again from scratch, | So yes, I am aware that some of things that Cumulus does may seem strange, but it is simply not possible for me to start again from scratch, this is done in my spare time. | ||
And it is not possible for me to effectively produce separate versions of Cumulus specifically for each type of weather station. If you don't like the way Cumulus does certain things, do what I did and write your own software! | |||
== Can I run 2 copies of Cumulus 1? == | == Can I run 2 copies of Cumulus 1? == | ||