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Posted: **Mon 21 Mar 2016 10:52 pm**

Before switching from Cumulus 1 on an old PC running Windows XP to CumulusMX on an RPi3 running Jessie, I want to make sure that my system will continue to work faultlessly as before.
So, I'm testing CumulusMX on an RPi3 using Jessie with an old Fine Offset console whose outdoor sensors no longer work.
This means only indoor temp, indoor humidity, and atmospheric pressure are being monitored.

CumulusMX starts OK and appears to work, but when I look at the MXdiags file, after it has updated the files, this is what is happening:

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2016-03-22 11:37:04.959 Sensor contact lost; ignoring outdoor data
2016-03-22 11:37:14.958 Sensor contact lost; ignoring outdoor data
2016-03-22 11:37:24.959 Sensor contact lost; ignoring outdoor data

I guess this means that CumulsMX has detected the absence of outdoor sensors and has stopped logging.
Is there a switch or something to make CumulusMX ignore the absence of outdoor sensors?

Posted: **Mon 21 Mar 2016 11:13 pm**

Here is part of a very old post by Steve before MX

One possible issue is that Cumulus looks for outside temperature readings as an indication that all is working, and doesn't update the logs or the web until it's had a temperature reading. The 1.9.3 beta has a cumulus.ini setting to turn off this check.

and I think I recall a more recent post on this as well but couldn't find it in a quick forum search.

Paul

Posted: **Tue 22 Mar 2016 1:40 am**

Thank you for the hint Paul

I found the info in:
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/FAQ#Cumulu ... eb_uploads
which says to include NoSensorCheck=1 in the [Station] section of Cumulus.ini.
This has fixed it.

Posted: **Tue 22 Mar 2016 2:10 am**

Very good, and I had also forgotten about checking the Wiki. A good reminder for all of us the check the Wonderful Wiki!

Enjoy,
Paul

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