New Cumulus MX questions

[sfws]

Ok, I no longer have errors relating to $j entries.

Now, it is rejecting just the older days. Is there a limit to how far the recent tags go back when you first run Cumulus MX?

Alternatively, does Cumulus MX reject a recent tag referencing a past time when Cumulus was not running?

Or is there any other possible reason?



By the way, I have documented the steps I took with my MX venture at https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Cumulus_MX#What_I_did.


I like your new weather diary interface, but I do have one question, is it possible to get the information it contains into my MySQL database? (As I have said in many posts over the years I use a different schema for my daily summary table, it does not mirror dayfile.txt, each row contains much more taken from today.ini, month.ini, and log.xml.)EDIT - I resolved this, my end of day script reads the new diary as one of several sources from which it creates a new daily summary row.

[water01]

Now, it is rejecting just the older days. Is there a limit to how far the recent tags go back when you first run Cumulus MX?

I assume you moved all your old data over from Cumulus 1, so that would be your limitation only the amount of data you have as far as I am aware.

[mcrossley]

And you set the StartDate in Cumulus.ini to when your old data starts?

[sfws]

I assume you moved all your old data over from Cumulus 1

Yes, David

And you set the StartDate in Cumulus.ini to when your old data starts?

Mark, I copied over the Cumulus.ini that I was using with Cumulus 1.

I have documented the steps I took

Both, the steps include your two thoughts.

After a wait of 4 months, I'm finally getting a plumber coming this afternoon, so taking break from computing.
The weather is dry and settled here for next few days, so I will be in garden when I can, and not being doing any more experimentation with MX. When I do resume, I will see whether the problem is still present.

[sfws]

I'm posting in the thread I had already started, rather than starting a new one in "Cumulus MX current", but it can be moved there.

As a further experiment, I removed my Cumulus.ini and moved all my files in data out to another folder, and then restarted Cumulus MX.

The command screen

Command screen.PNG

as I expected tells me I have not set the station type.
But the Settings screen

Settings.PNG

does not seem to work.

I have attached the file created in MXdiags.

I have not modified anything related to settings from the MX download

file_properties.PNG

as you can see this file has not been modified, nor does it appear that it has been accessed by my experiment above, so perhaps something else is wrong. The "StationOptions.json" file has also not been modified since the download, so I don't think that is the problem. I notice that Mark says he made too many changes to interface files to list, so did this html get changed beyond varying the menu to include the new editors?

HAS ANYONE ELSE USING LATEST 3.4.5 b3069 RELEASE HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH SETTINGS SCREENS? Surely it can't just be me having bad luck?

Not related to above, I have 2 monitors attached to my PC, and when I was running Cumulus 1, its main page stayed on my smaller monitor because it writes its position when you stop Cumulus 1 to Cumulus.ini as <pre>[MainForm]
Left=2170
Top=26</pre>
The command window that opens for Cumulus MX always opens in the middle of my bigger screen, and I have to manually move it to the smaller screen each time. Would it be an easy edit for MX to also use the Main Form section to decide where it should reopen? (obviously when I am happy with MX I will minimise the command window, but for now it is useful to have it open and see whether errors occur.

In terms of the problem in earlier posts with recent history web tags, I have removed my weekly template from processing by Cumulus MX, and that proved no other templates have web tag problems. As soon as got MX to process the weekly template again, the web tag errors returned, I can't see any difference between the <#RecentTS d=5 ... and <#RecentTS d=6 ... tags it rejected and the one with h=24, d=2, d=3 and d=4.


I have now returned to my ex-Cumulus 1 data contents and the Cumulus.ini that I edited from my Cumulus 1 file for all future tests as I cannot get Settings screens to work.

[mcrossley]

I can not reproduce this. If I delete the Cumulus.ini file, then the normal default station settings screen appears for me.