KC0WNY wrote: ↑Wed 29 Jul 2020 10:19 pm
sounds too complicated for me, I guess I will just have to keep using the old one, until it stops working. Thanks
You can continue using Cumulus 1 (it is not going to stop working, until your computer fails). That is your decision.
It is true, currently more people use Cumulus 1 than MX. But lots of people have moved to MX, either to take advantage of vast improvements made to MX in the last 6 months, or because they want to run Cumulus on a device that consumes less power than your PC. Do not be put off swapping, just because it is unfamiliar. I am sure you have coped with various versions of the Windows Operating systems, and I expect you found some upgrades were not as simple as others. I predict you will cope with installing MX if you do try it.
The complications mentioned in the documentation are probably irrelevant to you. If in Cumulus 1 you just use the standard features and have not done any tailoring, so in MX you just use the standard features and don't need to worry initially about the new features. The full documentation does have to cover a lot of possibilities, different operating systems, different devices, different places for installation, people who have used Cumulus 1 and people who have never used Cumulus before, people who have web sites and people who do not, people who have databases and people who do not, all the extra features in MX not in Cumulus 1, locale issues like decimal commas and decimal points, people who have customised web pages, and people making different choices over what functionality to use. That is why it will seem complicated, you need to read what I linked to again, but this time focussing on the section with steps, and as you read each step think does it apply in my case. Plenty of other people who are not computer savvy have managed to swap to MX.
water01 wrote: ↑Wed 29 Jul 2020 10:37 pm
I am sorry but I do not get this, it is simplicity itself.
In your Windows 10, clicking on the download zip for MX will unzip the contents, and each file will go into its correct place. That is why the installation is simple. If as water01 suggests you unzip where your Cumulus 1 exe is currently, then your data folder, your Cumulus.ini and other files will be in place and you don't need to follow the bits of the documentation about copying them elsewhere. Since a lot of the steps are about copying, this already represents considerable simplification!
water01 wrote: ↑Wed 29 Jul 2020 10:37 pm
using the Settings menu enter your weather station type etc.
Water01 has muddled his answer by suggesting you have to select weather station type. Installing MX where your Cumulus.ini file already exists, that and similar settings will be read from the configuration file.
Later you will need to alter settings, not for your weather station type, but for what you want uploaded to your web site, to view or correct extreme records, to edit out rogue values from logs and similar tasks. For this, you will need to make use of a browser to view the admin interface and that will seem strange to you because you are used to the Cumulus 1 main screen and you will not see that. The web server that includes the admin interface is running all the time MX is running, to make that server work you
either run MX as administrator,
or you have to just once enter the command in the documentation that lets you thereafter run MX without needing administrative privileges.
Swapping to MX, you get a new set of web pages, and those are installed in a similar way to you will have installed Cumulus 1 web pages, that was not done by an installer before so you can do it. There are some differences in what is uploaded on a regular basis between the two flavours of Cumulus and as already mentioned that means some differences in settings for getting what you want in web pages.