We have a vineyard with several separate blocks of several acres, and we want to add additional weather stations for each block. These are on a hillside so there will be significant differing microclimates to monitor, so this does make sense.
The Davis base station we're using is capable of handling multiple instrument clusters. I have been running Cumulus 1 since 2012, and haven't seen anything that would have me believe it would know what to do if there were multiple ISS clusters connected. I've not actually tried this, so I'm just guessing that it's not there, and that MX won't have that capability either. Please let me know if it can.
If not, is it possible to specify a config file to Cumulus at startup and thus to run multiple instances acting completely independently on the same computer? I'm guessing we'll just have to buy a second base station and a second computer and run them completely independently - someone please let me know if otherwise.
Thank you!
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Can MX support multiple Davis stations?
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Re: Can MX support multiple Davis stations?
Hi,
Have you looked at the Weatherlink Live? https://www.weatherstations.co.uk/weatherlink-live.htm
CumulusMX works with the Weatherlink Live, and you can run more than one instance of CumulusMX on the same computer and accessing the same WLL.
Enjoy,
Paul
Have you looked at the Weatherlink Live? https://www.weatherstations.co.uk/weatherlink-live.htm
CumulusMX works with the Weatherlink Live, and you can run more than one instance of CumulusMX on the same computer and accessing the same WLL.
Enjoy,
Paul
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MX https:// komokaweather.com/cumulusmx4/index.htm
C1 www.komokaweather.com/komokaweather-ca
MX https://komokaweather.com/cumulusmx/index.htm /index.html /index.php
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Re: Can MX support multiple Davis stations?
Cumulus MX will only support one "primary" ISS with the WLL. You can map the T/H sensors of other ISS transmitters to the "extra" sensors, but you can only have the primary recording rainfall. Likewise you can nominate one transmitter as the wind transmitter, wind data from the others will not be recorded.
As Paul said with a WLL you could run multiple instances of CMX against the same WLL, each with a different "primary" ISS defined. But that is starting to get a bit messy.
As Paul said with a WLL you could run multiple instances of CMX against the same WLL, each with a different "primary" ISS defined. But that is starting to get a bit messy.
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Re: Can MX support multiple Davis stations?
Thanks all for pointing out WLL, I had not known of this.
However, I don't think it'll do what I need. I need the data for each weather station (more specifically for each ISS), to be ftp'ed up to my own server as a set of files. I parse the Cumulus MonYYlog.txt file to analyze for Powdery Mildew growth potential.
I (do appreciate, but) do not need any of the display capabilities of Cumulus, all I need is a daemon/service that pulls data from the base station and ftp's it up. I don't wish to pay a subscription service to Davis when I'm already paying to co-lo my own server <grin!>.
Can I get there with WLL?
However, I don't think it'll do what I need. I need the data for each weather station (more specifically for each ISS), to be ftp'ed up to my own server as a set of files. I parse the Cumulus MonYYlog.txt file to analyze for Powdery Mildew growth potential.
I (do appreciate, but) do not need any of the display capabilities of Cumulus, all I need is a daemon/service that pulls data from the base station and ftp's it up. I don't wish to pay a subscription service to Davis when I'm already paying to co-lo my own server <grin!>.
Can I get there with WLL?
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Re: Can MX support multiple Davis stations?
No, I don't think so. You will need multiple copies of CMX to do that.MikeLempriere wrote: ↑Sun 10 Jan 2021 6:56 pm I (do appreciate, but) do not need any of the display capabilities of Cumulus, all I need is a daemon/service that pulls data from the base station and ftp's it up. I don't wish to pay a subscription service to Davis when I'm already paying to co-lo my own server <grin!>.
Can I get there with WLL?