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 The table [[Cumulus.ini#Section:_Station|here for the [Station] section]] will explain how MX stores the selections you make here, and give a bit more detail about each item and the values it can take. Please note that, in the '''Options''' section, there are two settings that take effect immediately '''Save'''  is pressed, but are not written to '''Cumulus.ini''' and will be reset when MX is restarted; these two exceptions are to use '''Debugging logging''' and to use '''Data Logging'''.  The first adds extra output to the log file created in "CumulusMX/MXDiags" folder reporting in detail each output task MX does. The second adds extra output to the log file created in "CumulusMX/MXDiags" folder reporting in detail each input received from the weather station.
+==== Station Type ====
+Select the one that matches your weather station. If you are unsure, look at [[Supported Devices]] article because it explains about alternative brands.
+==== Units ====
+One feature of Cumulus is that it does not matter what units the weather station uses, every reading is converted to units you select here, and generally every thing Cumulus does is based on those units. There is one exception, which only affects those in USA; internally Cumulus uses Celsius for more calculations, if you have requested Fahrenheit, it is only used for entries in log files, web tags, and NOAA reports.
+==== Davis Connection  ====
+As you guessed, here is where you enter settings for how Cumulus interacts with your Davis station, see hints by selections.
+==== Davis WeatherLink Live ====
+There are several sub-sections, see hints by inputs.
+==== Ecowitt GW1000 Settings ====
+For equivalent brands please see [[Supported Devices]]. See hints by selections.
+==== Log interval ====
+This is time selected from a drop-down between times when MX logs current values, not Cumulus normally records only a small sample of the readings it processes, so these logs may miss extremes.
+For some weather station types, this interval must match the interval at which the logger associated with the station logs readings, for some types it does not matter, and some station types don't have a separate logger.
+==== Log rollover ====
+Cumulus 1 was originally designed to allow you to match meteorological practice of rollover at 9 am in winter and 10 am in summer (so all days are exactly 24 hours long even when clocks change), but other options can be set.
+==== Location ====
+People often struggle with these settings. The longitude and latitude must be right to get sun rise/set calculated correctly. The altitude must be right if you send an alternative pressure reading to an external site. The name and description are combined with other fixed words on the standard web pages, so must work in that context.
+==== Options ===
+You will probably find it hard to find this section, but it is an important set of settings.
+Around a dozen relate to the extent to which Cumulus uses information as provided by weather station and the extent to which Cumulus derives the information for itself in the format/formula it believes right. A few of these are each specific to particular weather station makes and relate to synchronising clocks in various ways. The rest relate to specific readings.
+'''Extra Sensors''' - any sensors whose readings are logged in the standard log file are not '''extra'''. You tick here if you want Cumulus to log sensors using the extra sensors log file. Both log files are known as monthly logs in that a new log is created for each new month. (This is nothing to do with the '''special log''' that Cumulus 1 maintained for multiple temperature and humidity readings, as it is not available in MX).
+'''Debug logging''' is used to switch on extra debugging information (about what Cumulus does in its processing) in the [[MXDiags]] log file.  It only remains on until either it is turned off here or Cumulus is closed. Use [[Cumulus_MX#Parameter_for_adding_debugging|a parameter '''-debug''' for adding debugging]] when you start Cumulus if you want the debugging to persist.
+'''Data logging'''  is used to switch on extra debugging information (about interaction between weather station and Cumulus) in the [[MXDiags]] log file.  It only remains on until either it is turned off here or Cumulus is closed. Use [[Cumulus_MX#Parameter_for_adding_debugging|a parameter '''-logging''' for adding data logging]] when you start Cumulus if you want the data logging to persist.
+==== Stop second instance ====
+Invokes code that stops you having 2 copies of MX running at same time and conflicting.
+=== Forecast ===
+See tips by each setting.
+=== Solar ===
+See tips by each setting.
+=== Annual Rainfall  ===
+This allows you to report seasonal rainfall, i.e. what is reported as this year's rain starts on the first of September say, rather than 1 January.  If, you don't choose January, there is a difficulty with the year-to-date and year to which it applies, because these are always applied January to December and will therefore cover parts of two different seasons!  The advice is to review these settings every month and check whether you want them to still apply or need to revise them.
+=== Graphs ===
+See tips by each setting.
 === Internet Settings ===