Cumulus Support

Hi Steve

I have been running Cumulus 1.8.4 build 605 on my XP service pack 3 machine for many years.

Today when I initialised Cumulus, it displayed the downloading data window but just stopped with the downloading data window not incrementing. Even after leaving it running for 10 minutes.

I tried rebooting the PC but same result when I re-initialised Cumulus.

I managed to open the debug form and that displayed :

Debug info
Request EW data block, addr = 000000

Looking back through the forum, today.ini seems to be a area that causes problems on start –up.

Below is the data in mine and it looks odd at the end. There are loads of squares between yesterday=0 and for 8 lines after esterday=0 but they don’t appear on the text below

Hope you can help

Best regards

Derek

Today.ini

[General]
Date=28/11/2014
Timestamp=27/11/2014 17:20:00
[Wind]
Speed=0
SpTime=00:00
Gust=0
Time=00:00
Bearing=0
Direction=---
Windrun=0
[Temp]
Low=999
LTime=00:00
High=-500
HTime=00:00
Total=0
Samples=0
[Pressure]
Low=9999
LTime=00:00
High=0
HTime=00:00
[Rain]
High=0
HTime=00:00
Start=-1
Yesterday=0



esterday=0

That is a very very old version of Cumulus and I can't tell if it will fix your problem but upgrading to current version is highly recommended. You should also read the release notes as there have been some significant changes/improvements. Upgrading is easy as just do it on top of your existing, and you'll like it. Like always make a copy of you data folder and better yet your full Cumulus folder. Current version of Cumulus will do an automatic backup every night and at every time of a shutdown.

Enjoy,
Paul

As Paul says, that is a very old version of Cumulus, about six years old in fact. I can no longer support that version, and you will need to install the latest version if you want any help from me. However, it is likely that the station USB interface has locked up and you will need to reset it, as described in the FAQ - http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/FAQ#Cumulu ... .22_screen

If your today.ini file has corruptions, you will need to fix that, preferably using a good text editor like notepad++.

Hi Paul and Steve

Great the reset did the trick.

However I still have the corruption at the end of the today.ini file. I will upgrade to the latest verision of cumulus but will a completely new today.ini file be created or will the corruption be carried over? Not surprisingly the example today.ini file in cumulus wiki looks nothing like my old version!

Best regards

Derek

The today.ini file will get overwritten when Cumulus runs, as soon as it starts logging data.

Hi Steve

I have upgraded to 1.9.4 build 1099 after the problems noted previously in this string and I like the new features and display.

However, every time I initiialise Cumulus I get the error light flashing (ftp logging option is NOT set)

The error log says : error on line 2310 of nov14log.txt - list index out of bounds (15)

Dumping the nov14log.txt file shows the following for 2310 and adjacent lines...........

2306 25/11/14,09:50,4.1,95,3.4,2.2,3.8,354,0.0,1.2,1025.1,289.8,21.6,43,3.1
2307 25/11/14,10:00,4.3,94,3.4,1.9,4.5,232,0.0,1.2,1025.0,289.8,21.7,43,0.7
2308 25/11/14,10:10,4.6,94,3.7,2.0,4.5,9,0.0,1.2,1024.8,289.8,21.8,44,1.6
2309 25/11/14,10:20,4.8,94,3.9,2.6,6.9,110,0.0,1.5,1024.7,290.1,21.8,44,3.8
2310 25/11/14,10:30,5.0,93,4.0,2.3,5.4,317,0.0,1.5,1024.6,290.1,21.9,43,2.2
2311 25/11/14,10:40,5.0,92,3.8,2.0,3.1,90,0.0,1.5,1024.6,290.1,21.9,42,2.2
2312 25/11/14,10:50,5.1,91,3.8,1.9,3.1,59,0.0,1.5,1024.6,290.1,22.0,41,0.7
2313 25/11/14,11:00,5.2,91,3.9,1.8,3.1,232,0.0,1.5,1024.3,290.1,22.0,41,1.6
2314 25/11/14,11:10,5.3,90,3.8,2.6,4.5,92,0.0,1.5,1024.1,290.1,22.1,41,4.5
2315 25/11/14,11:20,5.4,90,3.9,2.3,3.1,112,0.0,1.5,1023.9,290.1,22.1,40,1.6

Cumulus appears to run OK despite this error.

Any suggestions to corect this error?

Best regards

Derek

The problem may not be evident in whatever it is you are using to display the file. Notepad++ will usually show it; normally a blank line or garbage/null characters which the system has written for whatever reason.

If you zip the file up and attach it, I'll take a look.

Hi Steve

November log zipped up and attached.

I have take a quick scroll through it and the only thing I can see of note is that on Nov 27th 11:50 to 17:20 there is a string of identical values. I undated to the latest release on 30th.

Best regards

Derek

Sorry, I'd completely forgotten the beginning of this thread and how old the version of Cumulus was that you were using. The latest code isn't expecting such an old version of the data logs. It caters for more recent additions to the logs, but not back as far as version 1.8.4. Eventually it will stop looking at the November log at start up and stop reporting the error.

Thanks steve