Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX: Difference between revisions

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====Cumulus.ini====
====Cumulus.ini====


    If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter.
If your "Cumulus.ini" was actually called "cumulus.ini" you should rename it to start with a capital letter.
    Please see Cumulus.ini#Parameters_changed to see the list of 2 parameters that must always be changed in this configuration file. They are also mentioned in next 2 sections here.
 
    There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the "StartDate=" line in the '[Station]' section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, it will ignore any log files for earlier dates; whilst Cumulus 1 always looks at all log files it finds in the data folder.
Please see [[Cumulus.ini#Parameters_changed]] to see the list of 2 parameters that must always be changed in this configuration file. They are also mentioned in next 2 sections here.
    There are several other differences in settings stored in "Cumulus.ini", but you can address those later through the MX settings screens.
 
There are some differences in how the contents of this file are used in the 2 flavours, one to remember now is to check the "StartDate=" line in the '[Station]' section is correct for your earliest data before you let MX read this configuration file for first time, as MX uses that to find the first log file to start reading from, it will ignore any log files for earlier dates; whilst Cumulus 1 always looks at all log files it finds in the data folder.
 
There are several other differences in settings stored in "Cumulus.ini", but you can address those later through the MX settings screens.


====Log files====
====Log files====
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