Cumulus Support

Moving from a Windows XP install with 1.9.4 to cumulusMX on a raspberry pi

when I start CumulusMX and I go to localhost:8998 (or direct IP) I receive what looks to be the documentation for Responsive DataTables and cannot get to any configuration screens (regardless if remote or local to the raspberryPI)

Responsive example Responsive DataTables

Basic initialisation

Class name

ETC.....



the cumulusMX.exe is running (I had copied my old settings and got the same issue, but this is a clean install, formatted memory card)

Current culture: English (United States)
Serial: DE7653C9D6720541139E4B698BC4BEAB
Cumulus MX v.3.0.0 build 3028
This is pre-release beta software
Station type not set
Cumulus running at: http://*:8998/
(Replace * with any IP address on this machine, or localhost)
Starting web socket server on port 8002
8/10/2015 2:40:16 AM
Type Ctrl-C to terminate


I have a clean raspberian image with almost nothing else loaded

/CumulusMX $ lsusb -t
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=dwc_otg/1p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=hub, Driver=hub/5p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 3, If 0, Class=vend., Driver=smsc95xx, 480M
|__ Port 3: Dev 4, If 0, Class=vend., Driver=rtl8192cu, 480M
|__ Port 4: Dev 5, If 0, Class=HID, Driver=, 1.5M
/CumulusMX $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1941:8021 Dream Link WH1080 Weather Station / USB Missile Launcher


I have verified that the station is talking over USB using pywws

That's very odd - what happens if you explicitly supply a page, e.g. http://<ip address>:8998/index.html or http://<ip address>:8998/charts.html?

Index.html still returns the "responsive" page

the stationsettings.html does work and allows changes to the .ini file.

I set it to Fine Offset and restarted CumulusMX and it cannot find the station

The Dashboard link points to Index.html so that does not work. The other tabs come up but have no data

Current culture: English (United States)
Serial: DE7653C9D6720541139E4B698BC4BEAB
Cumulus MX v.3.0.0 build 3028
This is pre-release beta software
Today.ini = data/today.ini
Last update=8/11/2015 6:34:19 PM
Fine Offset station not found
Cumulus running at: http://*:8998/
(Replace * with any IP address on this machine, or localhost)
Starting web socket server on port 8002
8/11/2015 6:34:20 PM
Type Ctrl-C to terminate

as a test chmod -R 777 the CumulusMX folder and no changes

I tried changing the port to other random ones and no change to behavior.

I also removed all of the CumulusMX files and folders and redownloaded the file from the forum, that did not change the behavior, still have issues with Fine Offset and Index.html

2015-08-11 18:34:18.991 ========================== Cumulus MX starting ==========================
2015-08-11 18:34:19.004 Command line: /CumulusMX/CumulusMX.exe
2015-08-11 18:34:19.008 Cumulus MX v.3.0.0 build 3028
2015-08-11 18:34:19.016 Platform: Unix
2015-08-11 18:34:19.018 OS version: Unix 3.18.11.7
2015-08-11 18:34:19.018 Current culture: English (United States)
2015-08-11 18:34:19.020 Directory separator=/ Decimal separator=. List separator=,
2015-08-11 18:34:19.020 Date separator=/ Time separator=:
2015-08-11 18:34:19.021 Standard time zone name: EST
2015-08-11 18:34:19.021 Daylight saving time name: EDT
2015-08-11 18:34:19.021 Daylight saving time? True
2015-08-11 18:34:19.024 8/11/2015 6:34:19 PM
2015-08-11 18:34:19.025 Data path = data/
2015-08-11 18:34:19.033 Creating backup folder backup/20150811183419/
2015-08-11 18:34:19.104 Reading Cumulus.ini file
2015-08-11 18:34:19.187 ASM=10 AST=00:10:00
2015-08-11 18:34:19.195 Cumulus start date: Monday, August 10, 2015
2015-08-11 18:34:19.217 Debug logging is disabled
2015-08-11 18:34:19.217 Data logging is disabled
2015-08-11 18:34:19.217 Logging interval = 5
2015-08-11 18:34:19.402 Calculating sunrise and sunset times
2015-08-11 18:34:19.440 Sunrise: 02:01:50
2015-08-11 18:34:19.441 Sunset : 14:08:32
2015-08-11 18:34:19.442 Tomorrow sunrise: 02:01:40
2015-08-11 18:34:19.442 Tomorrow sunset : 14:08:22
2015-08-11 18:34:19.480 Station type: Fine Offset
2015-08-11 18:34:19.482 WindUnit=mph RainUnit=in TempUnit=°F PressureUnit=mb
2015-08-11 18:34:19.485 YTDRain=0.000 Year=0
2015-08-11 18:34:19.486 RainDayThreshold=-1.000
2015-08-11 18:34:19.486 Offsets and Multipliers:
2015-08-11 18:34:19.486 PO=0.000 TO=0.000 HO=0 WDO=0 ITO=0.000 UVO=0.000
2015-08-11 18:34:19.486 WSM=1.000 WGM=1.000 TM=1.000 TM2=1.000 HM=1.000 RM=1.000 UVM=1.000
2015-08-11 18:34:19.487 Spike removal:
2015-08-11 18:34:19.487 TD=999.000 GD=999.000 WD=999.000 HD=999.000 PD=999.000
2015-08-11 18:34:19.487 MR=999.000 MH=999.000
2015-08-11 18:34:19.487 Cumulus Starting
2015-08-11 18:34:19.489 Opening station
2015-08-11 18:34:19.573 Last update time from today.ini: 8/11/2015 6:34:19 PM
2015-08-11 18:34:19.574 Read today file: Date = 00/00/00, LastUpdateTime = 8/11/2015 6:34:19 PM, Month = 8
2015-08-11 18:34:19.577 ET not initialised
/CumulusMX/data/alltime.ini
Alltime.ini file read
MonthlyAlltime.ini file read
2015-08-11 18:34:19.746 Finding raintoday from logfile data/Aug15log.txt
2015-08-11 18:34:19.746 Expecting listsep=, decimal=.
Setting raintoday from logfile = 0
Calculating rain counter = -1
Rain counter negative, setting to zero
Midnight rain not found, using raindaystart
Getting rain totals, rain season start = 1
2015-08-11 18:34:19.903 Looking for Fine Offset station
2015-08-11 18:34:20.004 Fine Offset station not found
2015-08-11 18:34:20.184 625 web tags initialised
2015-08-11 18:34:20.207 HTML root path = /CumulusMX/interface
2015-08-11 18:34:20.504 Starting web socket server on port 8002
2015-08-11 18:37:24.558 Cumulus closing
2015-08-11 18:37:24.590 Writing Cumulus.ini file
2015-08-11 18:37:24.690 Stopping data read timer
2015-08-11 18:37:24.693 Stopping minute timer
2015-08-11 18:37:24.693 Nulling hidDevice
2015-08-11 18:37:24.693 Exit FOStation.Stop()
2015-08-11 18:37:24.694 Station stopped
2015-08-11 18:37:24.694 No data read this session, today.ini not written

I have no idea where that DataTables page is coming from, the index.html page doesn't even use DataTables. If you use the F12 developer console in your browser, or better still Fiddler, you should be able to see what happens when you request the page. What browser are you using when you try it from Windows? That page looks like a cut-down version of a page for a mobile browser, or some other 'limited' browser.

This won't be any use if the station can't be detected, though. What model of Raspberry Pi is it? What version of Raspbian are you using, and what version of Mono? Do you have the mono-complete package installed? Do you have libudev0 installed?

steve wrote:I have no idea where that DataTables page is coming from, the index.html page doesn't even use DataTables. If you use the F12 developer console in your browser, or better still Fiddler, you should be able to see what happens when you request the page. What browser are you using when you try it from Windows? That page looks like a cut-down version of a page for a mobile browser, or some other 'limited' browser.

Maybe CTRL+F5 in your Webbrowser forces a cache refresh, and will guarantee that if the content is changed, you will get the new content.
Try it.
Jan

Can you SSH to your RPi2 (guessing you are using an RPi2 rather than an RPi eh?) and type:

uname -a

mono -V

and copy and post what you see here.

Is there a way to be able to test your set up without the WLAN dongle attached?

I mean using the built in NIC on the RPi2 rather than the WLAN for a bit of time.

BTW here mostly use Firefox on Windows and Linux. I am playing a bit with the Edge browser (V20.XXX) on Windows 10 and CumulusMX looks fine there too.

have no idea where that DataTables page is coming from, the index.html page doesn't even use DataTables. If you use the F12 developer console in your browser, or better still Fiddler, you should be able to see what happens when you request the page. What browser are you using when you try it from Windows? That page looks like a cut-down version of a page for a mobile browser, or some other 'limited' browser.

Okay I tried one more time to do a clean rasbian image install and this time it doesn't have the "responsive tables" page, so success there, but still no explanation of why it was happening. The browser that was used in the screenshot is chrome on windows 7 with the bookmarks bar turned off and the image cropped

I also tried on the native epiphany browser on the PI, Edge on windows 10, chrome on windows 10 and IE 11 on windows 7

This won't be any use if the station can't be detected, though. What model of Raspberry Pi is it? What version of Raspbian are you using, and what version of Mono? Do you have the mono-complete package installed? Do you have libudev0 installed?

rPI2 model B, 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img

mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (Debian 3.2.8+dfsg-4+rpi1)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: normal
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: armel,vfp+hard
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: sgen


sudo apt-get install mono-complete
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mono-complete is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

sudo apt-get install libudev0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libudev0 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Maybe CTRL+F5 in your Webbrowser forces a cache refresh, and will guarantee that if the content is changed, you will get the new content.
Try it.
Jan

didn't make a difference previously (also on different machines with different users) I actually reflexively don't use anything else because I have had bad experiences with cached content on pages

uname -a

mono -V

and copy and post what you see here.

Is there a way to be able to test your set up without the WLAN dongle attached?

uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.18.11-v7+ #781 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:07:59 BST 20 15 armv7l GNU/Linux


mono see above


Tested removing wifi and restarting, this did allow the Fine Offset station to be found on Cumulus start up and it looks like things are working, based on other forum topics it sounds like I may need a powered hub. Also looks like taking the old windows cumulus install and copying the cumulusMX over it is properly importing history

popsicleorama wrote:Okay I tried one more time to do a clean rasbian image install and this time it doesn't have the "responsive tables" page, so success there,

So it is now working - the MX UI pages appear in your browser?

Tested removing wifi and restarting, this did allow the Fine Offset station to be found on Cumulus start up and it looks like things are working, based on other forum topics it sounds like I may need a powered hub.

You will probably need to use a powered hub, yes, particularly if you have other USB devices connected.

Googling this morning relating to the RPi2 and USB WLAN sticks.

I saw that typically the USB WLAN stick use 200-500mA's of power.

And that the max USB draw supported by the RPi2 is 100mA.

Note this was a quick check only. I have not personally tested this.

If you want you can just plug in your WLAN USB stick to a Wintel computer, enable it and see the mA draw from it.

BTW don't buy an "el cheapo" powered USB hub as sometimes the voltage goes back to the source port. I have personally seen this. Here I use Digi Hubs.

There are plenty of good quality USB powered hubs out there in internetlandia.

popsicleorama wrote: rPI2 model B, 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img

mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (Debian 3.2.8+dfsg-4+rpi1)

.... and maybe this also could be a good advise, reading this forum post https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=13587

Here:
uname -a
Linux cumulus 3.18.11-v7+ #781 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:07:59 BST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 4.0.2 (Stable 4.0.2.5/c99aa0c Wed Jun 24 10:33:52 UTC 2015)

Jan