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Sorry Steve but your comment was in reply to my post After I had installed and run 3040.

Although it has rained a couple of times since then the last rainfall has not updated on the website although rain is being measured.

Cheers

Dave

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steve wrote:I see what the problem is with the last rain, I'm doing the wrong check for an Instromet station. I'll fix it in the next build.

Hi Steve did you manage to sort this problem in CumulusMX version 3041?

Thank you

Dave

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Hi Chris well I am running exactly the same gear/software and I too had trouble setting it all up. The bit that messed me up was updating the realtimegauges file to my web server. On the panel on the your-ip:8998 screen there is a settings tab/extra web files page. Have you set that up to upload you...

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Well talk about not seeing the wood for the trees, I have never noticed that before Steve. I invested in the Electronic sensor rather than the usual wet/dry bulb humidity system. http://www.instromet.co.uk/humitter.html I am fairly sure all connections are correct/tight but will recheck. If all well...

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Well Steve I think you have cracked the Instromet nut! I have made another 2 runs this morning. One with a very short pause between Cumulus running, Cumulus off and then Cumulus restarted and the logger ran totally as expected. The second run I stopped Cumulus for approximately 45 minutes and then r...

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Thanks Steve and I have downloaded/installed MX version 3040 and it does seem to be working although possibly early days. I did a software update and then restarted Cumulus and it ran almost perfectly. I then stopped Cumulus for an hour or two and then restarted with a backlog of data. It ran throug...

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Steve I presume you still have an Instromet logger. If you locate the rain sensor input terminals on the sensor PCB there are 3 coloured wire inputs, Red black & Yellow. Connect a wire link to the Yellow terminal and tap that onto the Red terminal each connection should up the rainfall by 0.01mm...

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Hi Steve so very very close :) The Instromet rain gauge has a resolution of 0.01mm as it measures drops of water passing through a 'calibrated' aperture. The Cumulus software is translating the 'drop count' correctly as the rain to date, rain today and annual rain all update correctly on the Website...

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Hello Steve and thanks for latest software and info. Well I have received a new PCB from Instromet and have been having a try with some varying results. I have run version 1.9.4 on an NUC PC running Windows 7 professional and that seemed to run successfully whether or not the logger had a stored log...

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That is sounding very encouraging Steve and would tend to answer some the queries raised when connecting to the Instromet logger.

There is potentially light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks for the update.

Dave

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Steve an update on Instromet logger commands. The RDLG command works in all modes, RDLG produces a complete log line by line. RDLG,1 produces the first line of the log. RDLG,3 produces the first 3 lines etc etc. LGCT produces the number of logs available with its checksum. The PRLG command does not ...

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Change to the directory where you have installed CumulusMX.
Type "Sudo mono CumulusMX.exe" ( without speech marks
then "enter"

CumulusMX should run.

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Thanks Steve for the fast response and I am glad that Instromet have shipped the 'test' logger that should help in diagnosis. As for the RDLG & PRLG commands I can certainly hit the logger with those commands using my Windows based machine that Cumulus 1 is running on but I suspect that it will ...

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Steve I have been having a 'play' and seem to be making some progress. I have fitted a raspberry pi3 with a 32GB Samsung micro SD card. Loaded MX 3038 and set up Jessie with Mono Version 3.2.8. When I fired the system up with NO old data in the data folder and resetting the Instromet EEPROM pointer ...

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Thanks Steve. I know that there have been several instances of folk with various Weather stations having connection problems due to MONO versions. At present on the PI2 I am running Mono version 4.0.2. Is it possible that a earlier version or a later version of Mono may actually work? If you think M...

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