Legacy Cumulus 1 release 1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014
(a patch is available for 1.9.4 build 1099 that extends the date range of drop-down menus to 2030)
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Topics about the Beta trials up to Build 3043, the last build by Cumulus's founder Steve Loft. It was by this time way out of Beta but Steve wanted to keep it that way until he made a decision on his and Cumulus's future.
jpsc wrote:For what it's worth I've seen this blank control panel, with just the time updating. I went through to the settings and changed some things before stopping, rebooting, and restarting. Sorry, no diagnostics.
I have had this happen more than one time, and on more than one browser.
I corrected it by clearing the cookies on the site. Works for me every time.
Yes, you're back to the same problem as before. Something apparently happens when it tries to write the yesterday.ini file for the second time which causes the logger reading thread to hang. I don't know what it is and I can't reproduce it myself. It seems no-one else has this problem - something on your system is apparently causing the writing of the file to hang.
Until we can work out what the cause is, you'll just have restart MX when it gets to this point, it should then carry on as normal.
That's eliminated the writing of the yesterday.ini file as the cause. I think that what might be happening is that the station has gone to sleep while Cumulus is doing the end of day rollover and creating the NOAA reports (seems to take about 12 seconds on your PC), or perhaps rather than going to sleep, it has forgotten that it was supposed to be sending archive data.
I think I'll have to add some more logging to try to get closer to what the problem is. I'll also add some code to handle the console stopping sending archive data, which might solve the problem anyway.
I actually hit this problem myself just now. We had a power cut overnight, and the UPS eventually ran out of power, so my Raspberry Pi shut down. When I started it up again, it had about 90 archive entries to download, and there was an end of day reset in the middle (mine is at 0900). It stopped processing archive entries at that point. I realised that I wasn't running my new code yet, so I copied that over and 'rewound' to force it to repeat, and the problem was indeed that the logger had got bored waiting for MX to do the end of day rollover, and stopped sending archive data. My new code detected that, and the second round of downloading archive entries then ran to completion.
So I'm hopeful that the next build will fix your problem, finally.