Cumulus Support

Steve, I have happily been using Cumulus for about 2 years now, and have only made one donation. I have just made another small donation. I would be happy for a paid Linux version, whether it be a one off payment up front or an annual licence.

Thank you for all your hard work.

Andrew

no news atm...

Hey Steve..........

Do you have a intermediate result for us?!


73 Sebastian

Please don't keep nagging me about this every few days, it will get very annoying very quickly. When it's ready I will post an announcement. It may be weeks or months away.

Hi

Not nagging, but can you say if the planned Linux version will be a text mode program?
i.e. could the Cumulus Linux software run on a headless software platform (no keyboard/mouse/monitor), with the browser configuring everything?

Or will it be as now and use an OS/window manager for config etc?

Cheers!

snapper wrote:Not nagging, but can you say if the planned Linux version will be a text mode program?
i.e. could the Cumulus Linux software run on a headless software platform (no keyboard/mouse/monitor), with the browser configuring everything?

Yes, that's how it works. I have taken the 'engine' part of Cumulus and rewritten it to make it cross-platform - it's now a .net assembly which works with mono. It has a built-in web server so that a browser can connect to it to display the data and perform configuration.

I've pretty much finished the engine part and I'm getting as many bugs out as I can. I've just started on the 'front end'. In theory anyone who has an existing Cumulus installation could try the engine part now, but I'd much rather have at least a basic front end written first.

Excellent, thanks Steve.

Looking forward to it - keen to move away from weewx which is great but a little basic for my needs and I really don't like running Windows in a VM (I use ESXi on my server)

If you need testers, feel free to drop me an email; happy to help out

Sorry, another question: will history data generated using the Windows version be transferable to the Linux version?

My weewx installation has thrown its toys out of the pram and the developer cant look at it until the end of the month; I'm wondering if I could temporarily install the Windows version of Cumulus and then migrate to Linux once its done?

Yes, the new version is as close to 100% compatible with the current version as possible. The data logs are exactly the same. I decided to do that rather than start from scratch with a completely new design, it needed less thought

Excellent, thanks!

I am looking forward to the GNU/Linux release as well. Pretty much Cumulus and Windows games are all that keep me using Windows though I am using my GNU/Linux laptop right now to type this message.

For those of you who have not yet tried GNU/Linux (Linux is just the kernel while GNU is the programs combined make the operating system), here are three distributions I recommend...

Ubuntu MATE
https://ubuntu-mate.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCqjruMEh7k

It's Ubuntu without the crappy Unity interface and it runs great. This is the distribution I am currently using all the time.

elementary OS
http://elementaryos.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TEIPfYy_Z0

A really clean almost Mac OS X look.

Zorin OS
http://zorin-os.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjpYKwIAn7Y

Also nice. More of a Windows 7 look and has extra themes to look like Windows XP.