Cumulus MX Announcements and Download - PLEASE READ FIRST

[mcrossley]

Patch release v4.2.1 b4041 is now available.
This build has been withdrawn,

[mcrossley]

Patch release v4.2.1 b4041 has been withdrawn - my apologies for the messing around with this release

Patch release v4.2.1 b4042 is now available.

This fixes the immediate new issue with the ErrorLight web tag encountered in b4040
This fixes the issues with Brotli compression setting being reversed and not saving to Cumulus.ini

This release fixes a few issues:

• Interval data viewer not working over month ends for extra sensor values
• Ecowitt TCP API Station, incorrect interpretation of Ecowitt WH34 sensor low battery state
• Ecowitt TCP API Station, false detection of WS90 when a WH34 sensor was detected
• Web tag <#ErrorLight> is now functional again
• Fix web tag <#NewBuildNumber> showing the latest build number as "0000"

And some new features...

The Day File Query gains an "on this day" type function.
The Day File Query web tag can now output just the date value.

It also adds Brotli compression support for PHP uploads. This is disabled by default, enable it under the advanced settings. I have left it disabled by default because it requires Brotli support in the PHP installation on your web server. The Brotli module is not a default PHP module as of v8.3 and it has manully built so may not always be available. You need to check this before enabling Brotli compression - does the function brotli_uncompress() exist. You also need to upload the updated version of the "upload.php" script.

You can read the changes in full in CHANGELOG file.

[mcrossley]

There is a new version of CreateMissing available for download. See the wiki downloads page

v2.0.2 has a fixe for reading solar and ET data from the log files in locales that use comma decimals.

[mcrossley]

AN updated version of v4.2.1 is now available - b4043.

This resolves the issue introduced in b4042 whereby web tags using the rc=y option truncated the value rather than changing comma decimals to points.

Two further fixes are included:

- Windy pressure uploads failing (a day zero error that no one noticed before - including me and I upload to Windy!)
- Fix Ecowitt WS69 battery state decode in TCP API station

The full CHANGELOG file.

[mcrossley]

A new version of Cumulus MX - v4.3.0 b4063 - is now available

There are quite a lot of changes in this release so please read the CHANGELOG.md carefully before installing it.

The highlights are:

Support for Bluesky
This version allows periodic, timed, and triggered posts to Bluesky to be created. Some detail is in the CHANGELOG file, more in the template Bluesky files you will find in the zip.

Weather Diary Changes
The weather diary has had a revamp. Any existing database will be converted on the first run of v4.3.0.
You can now specify a record time, record the snowfall in 24 hours, export all your data, and re-import it.
There is also a facility for creating automated records if you have a compatible snow depth sensor (more below).

Support for the new Ecowitt LDS01 laser distance sensor
Yet to be released, but MX is ready to support these sensors once they become available.
They can be used to measure distance or depth. MX records them and has new web tags for you to read the values.

JSON Station type
Can now be used to input Extra Sensor data. This may be more convenient for custom built sensors.

User Defined Alarms
As well as now supporting Bluesky posting, they also support using multiple web tags and arithmetic functions to arrive at a value to be tested.

[mcrossley]

The version 4.3.0 distribution zip has been updated 08 Dec 13:44 UTC to include two missing files that affected the MigrateData3to4 and CreateMissing untilies.

The two added files are:

/CumulusMX/CreateMissing.runtimeconfig.json
/CumulusMX/MigrateData3to4.runtimeconfig.json

Note the MD5 checksum file has NOT been updated with the new files.

[mcrossley]

A patch build v4.3.1 b4064 is now available

This fixes a number of issues that have come to light in v4.3.0

If you are running v4.3.0 it is recommended you upgrade to v4.3.1

Fixes included:

• AWEKAS uploads fix to avoid frequent rate limiting messages
• Ability to edit sunshine hours to two decimal palces in the log and day file editors
• Fix recent Solar graph data bad format if solar or UV sensor data is null
• Add check for CustomHttpXXX URLs to begin with http
• Davis WLL change to avoid potential extension of 10 minute gust values when broadcasts are working
• Bluesky variable timed posts not firing if no timed posts are defined
• Snow graphs now show all days
• Fix Rain Week calculation
• Fix for LoadRecent failing if indoor sensors are absent
• Fix for Tempest stations not reading historic data

[mcrossley]

A patch build v4.3.2 b4067 is now available

This sees improvements to the weather diary, a fix for the weekly rainfall being reset a day late, and more fixes for handling the new data null values introduced in v4.3.0.

It also introduces a new web tag parameter "nv=" for users to define their own strings to be returned if a web tag is null/empty/not applicable. Previous the returned value was fixed, usually, with some form of dashed string like "--".

The full change log can be viewed here.

[mcrossley]

A patch build v4.3.3 b4070 is now available.

Fixes

• JSON Station null reference Exception
• Error rewriting Cumulus.ini on some Windows installations
• Trend values on rollover (rates, rain in last hour etc) now include the last minute before rollover