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Last Rain Gauge Tip

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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Re: Last Rain Gauge Tip

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I take this topic to put my question, because it is similar.

Two days ago I noticed that in my website, Cumulus reported that my weather station had precipitation. (I use the 'AJAX/PHP multilingual website templates' from Ken True)
At first I thought it was some failure of the code templates. Then I looked the Cumulus files and I discovered in the 'today.ini' that my last rain was being reported with the following data:

[Rain]
High=0
HTime=00:00
Start=381,600006103516
Yesterday=0
HourlyHigh=0
HHourlyTime=00:00
LastTip=2011-04-14 02:04

But my real last time it rained was 2011-03-29 06:45, like you can see here:

29-03-11;06:40;11,9;97;11,4;0,3;3,6;303;0,0;1,8;1019,5;381,3;19,7;69;0,0;11,9;11,9;0,0;0;0,00;0,00;12,3;0;0,0
29-03-11;06:45;11,9;97;11,4;0,3;3,6;314;3,6;2,1;1019,4;381,6;19,7;69;0,0;11,9;11,9;0,0;0;0,00;0,00;12,3;0;0,0

From what I read here it seems to me that the solution will be in the files inside the 'Diags' folder.

Is that on the date that appears last rain, I had a problem in the PC and it has lost communication with the USB port. Been several hours without updating the data. I then close the Cumulus and change USB port.

How can I fix this error? Is there any way to manually edit a file and put back the correct date?

Thanks in advance! ;)
Kind Regards, Manuel.

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Re: Last Rain Gauge Tip

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actioman wrote:Is that on the date that appears last rain, I had a problem in the PC and it has lost communication with the USB port. Been several hours without updating the data. I then close the Cumulus and change USB port.
Yes, if the station's rain counter changes, for whatever reason, then the 'last rain date' will be set.
How can I fix this error? Is there any way to manually edit a file and put back the correct date?
Yes, just edit the date in today.ini, with Cumulus stopped.
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Re: Last Rain Gauge Tip

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steve wrote:Yes, just edit the date in today.ini, with Cumulus stopped.
Amazing! :o So simple and effective! It works just fine!

Thank you Steve! :clap:
Kind Regards, Manuel.

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