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by ExperiMentor
Sat 23 Nov 2019 10:31 am
Forum: CumulusMX Beta (releases up to b3043 ONLY)
Topic: Instructions: Installing CumulusMX on Raspberry Pi
Replies: 136
Views: 79569

Re: Instructions: Installing CumulusMX on Raspberry Pi

I'm glad my instructions helped (or maybe ... led you to different problems) Locales are a foreign topic to me (sorry - bad pun!) as I'm in en-GB and everything just works. First, remember that locales are not just about 'short date format' - they also control for example the decimal and thousands s...
by ExperiMentor
Fri 15 Nov 2019 9:45 pm
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Data Errors
Replies: 32
Views: 7724

Re: Data Errors

It wouldn't be too bad if I could run both side-by-side so that if the MX gets upset at least I won;t have lost any data :D. VP is an option, but that's another set of steps! I suppose at the worst one could lose a few hours of data if one had to revert back..... :lol: My simple Maplin weather stat...
by ExperiMentor
Thu 14 Nov 2019 6:25 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: MX and mysql data indexes
Replies: 13
Views: 2130

Re: MX and mysql data indexes

[...] and it imported the whole lot in 5 seconds (as a contrast, my complicated multi-table data sets in my day job take several minutes to load). [...] I can hardly imagine Spotfire making a difference that big (5 secs to 3(?) minutes is 36 times as fast). There is fysical limit to reading a fysic...
by ExperiMentor
Thu 14 Nov 2019 12:49 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: MX and mysql data indexes
Replies: 13
Views: 2130

Re: MX and mysql data indexes

@experimentor: you got me to a tool which is new to me. Interesting! But very suspicious that you do not see meteorology among their fields of solutions. I am looking forward to your results of the experiment. Well, I had to rise to my own challenge! Ignoring the warnings above, I started with 6 ye...
by ExperiMentor
Thu 14 Nov 2019 12:28 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Feature Requests
Replies: 7
Views: 1916

Re: Feature Requests

It means there is a long queue but it might happen. Mark Crossley, the moderator, is your guy who is kindly making changes and he seems to read all the posts most days. He has a list of things of his own that he wants to attend to, but if you post your suggestions here, one of them might just catch ...
by ExperiMentor
Wed 13 Nov 2019 11:05 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: WMR928NX
Replies: 3
Views: 860

Re: WMR928NX

The diags file shows something similar: most of the time data seems to be received smoothly, then there are several pauses with message "Data input appears to have stopped" before restarting after a couple of seconds. One place that I saw had a different message "WS Client Disconnecte...
by ExperiMentor
Wed 13 Nov 2019 10:51 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus MX stopping on Rpi ?
Replies: 11
Views: 2750

Re: Cumulus MX stopping on Rpi ?

Learn to use a little SSH (via PuTTY) when you do. It's exactly the same as the BASH command line but done from the comfort of your PC (and you can Copy/Paste instead of re-typing things). My thread https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=16931 goes through complete RPi setup using SS...
by ExperiMentor
Wed 13 Nov 2019 10:41 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Feature Requests
Replies: 7
Views: 1916

Re: Feature Requests

You could try sending them to:

Santa Claus
The North Pole
by ExperiMentor
Wed 13 Nov 2019 10:37 pm
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: Data Errors
Replies: 32
Views: 7724

Re: Data Errors

A big advantage of CumulusMX is that it will run on a Raspberry Pi Zero W - my system consumes exactly 0.19A at 5.16V = 0.9804W x 8768 hours per year = 8.6 kWh = £1.30/year. {calculation corrected after Ray's post below} Compared to leaving a PC switched on 24/7, that is a huge saving in energy cons...
by ExperiMentor
Tue 12 Nov 2019 8:32 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus MX stopping on Rpi ?
Replies: 11
Views: 2750

Re: Cumulus MX stopping on Rpi ?

I'm not quite sure why, but I'm worried you might have a corrupted or failing SD card.
Make a backup while you can.
by ExperiMentor
Mon 11 Nov 2019 11:49 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: MX and mysql data indexes
Replies: 13
Views: 2130

Re: MX and mysql data indexes

I have at the back of my mind a bit of a plan to see if I can import the archive files into Tibco Spotfire.
That'll not be running on my Raspberry Pi of course, but I think it wouldd be a good package to do the heavy lifting without needing dedicated programming.

Any thoughts?
by ExperiMentor
Mon 11 Nov 2019 8:22 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: CumulusMX and 1and1 Hosting
Replies: 12
Views: 3880

Re: CumulusMX and 1and1 Hosting

I can confirm that 1&1 Linux hosting uses SFTP - this site is running on one. I've never used a Windows offering.... But doesn't Freddie's post here mean that he has CumulusMX running under Linux and sending SFTP to 1&1 successfully? Either I'm misreading something or we need more details f...
by ExperiMentor
Mon 11 Nov 2019 8:15 pm
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Cumulus MX on new PC
Replies: 4
Views: 1141

Re: Cumulus MX on new PC

The log file shows that Cumulus was trying to read archive data but each attempt just received "Ignoring old archive data". Then after 40 seconds you killed the run without actually having properly started receiving current readings. I'm not sure, but I think this is reading recent [18 Sep...
by ExperiMentor
Mon 11 Nov 2019 5:21 pm
Forum: Cumulus 1 (No longer being developed)
Topic: My station's tweets to Twitter have stopped completely
Replies: 7
Views: 3510

Re: My station's tweets to Twitter have stopped completely

You can certainly achieve this in CumulusMX (why not switch over to the maintained program??). I've not used Cumulus 1 for years but expect it can do the same. All you need to do is tell Cumulus to 'Process' the twitter.txt template file (or indeed any other file you want), then pick up the output (...
by ExperiMentor
Mon 04 Nov 2019 12:36 am
Forum: Cumulus MX Current (releases since b3043)
Topic: Graphs e NOAA reports
Replies: 15
Views: 3325

Re: Graphs e NOAA reports

Could you post a link to the instructions you followed? That might give us a clue to what has gone wrong