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Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings. | Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings. | ||
== | == 'Engine' and 'Admin Interface' for MX == | ||
MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/terminal/console application which has no user interface. | MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/terminal/console application which has no user interface. It does write diagnostic information to a [[MXDiags|diagnostic log]], but many people run it on a device that has no monitor and so the terminal output (if any) is not monitored. | ||
When you successfully start MX, the engine is running until it is terminated | When you successfully start MX, the engine is running, and it continues, until it is terminated by control C (or its equivalent in a Mac environment). | ||
Equally, if "localhost" is already in use for another web server (that you already run on your device), you | The separate [[MX Administrative Interface|admin interface]] is provided by virtue of the engine acting as a web server. You can view the admin interface by typing the URL of the built-in web server into your browser, either on the same machine, or on a separate machine sharing the same local network. The default URL if the browser is on the same machine as MX is http://localhost:8998/. | ||
If you are using the browser on a different device on your local network to the device running MX, you cannot use that local host shortcut. Instead you specify a IPv4 address, that is listed in your router (might be called a hub) for the device running MX, this IPv4 address will look like '192.168.y.z' (where y and z are numbers that vary between implementations). | |||
Equally, if "localhost" is already in use for another web server (that you already run on your device), unless you can differentiate purely by port number you may need to use the correct IPv4 address as above, even on the same device. | |||
For security reasons, the admin interface should not be accessible via the public internet. | For security reasons, the admin interface should not be accessible via the public internet. | ||