hi all newbie here question help please

[tillysweather]

hi
new to the site and live in cornwall
have got my maplins N96GY station all up and running and am using cumulus instead of easy weather software and its working fine via usb, my question is when i switch the pc off tonight in the morning will it upload all the data stored on the unit to my pc or does the pc have to be left on all the time?
have searched the help to no avail, sorry if its a stupid question

[steve]

Hello, and welcome

It will download the data that it missed when you start it up again in the morning. If it doesn't, come straight back here and complain!

Steve

[tillysweather]

hi steve
many thanks am fairly new to the pc side of weather data saving although ive had weather stations for years, great software for sure

[6719jason]

Hello and Welcome to the Cumulus Forum Community

As Steve says, Any problems, Post here and we will all be willing to help.

Jason

[tillysweather]

got to say am impressed with the speed of response, have lurked here for a few days now while waiting for the station to arrive,have to work out my long and latitude to add in to the software, have to look into uploading it to something as well

[tillysweather]

just noticed that cumulus 2 is available is it worth a newbie trying?

[6719jason]

You could try V2 but it is only in the Alpha Stage at the Moment, so tread carefully.

Personally, I would stick to the Latest V1 Beta Build, and I can really recommend our very own inhouse hosting provider - Daj with Glohosting

I shall get Daj to contact you if he doesnt contact you before hand

http://www.glohosting.co.uk/

Jason

[tillysweather]

many thanks, could you give me a link to the v1 you mentioned please am using 1.8.7

[6719jason]

Sure http://www.nybbles.co.uk/downloads/beta ... sSetup.exe

There we go

Jason

Remember to shutdown Cumulus first, before installing the new version

[tillysweather]

lovely thanks very much will try now

[tillysweather]

well thats working fine, think i have issues as my sunset time says 17.49 i think thats wrong

[6719jason]

Sounds like a possible error in your co-ordinates. I can recommend Multimap for getting co-ordinates.

Let me know how you get on.

Jason

[tillysweather]

hi jason
once again many thanks, got them from multimap set them in and now its saying 16.32 which is spot on, will now look into the web side of things, great site this for sure i do love the forums

[6719jason]

hi jason
once again many thanks, got them from multimap set them in and now its saying 16.32 which is spot on, will now look into the web side of things, great site this for sure i do love the forums

Aww Fantastic Pleased to be of help I had a feeling that, Multimap Co-Ordinates would see you alright You've joined a friendly and helpful community

[philcdav]

Hi Tillysweather?

one other thing u may try is to use both software systems.

I run Cumulus for putting data to my website but also use Easy Weather as a data backup.

EW has some facilities, like the export of data as CSV files that is not in Cumulus (yet)

You cant run both softwares together but the data remains in the 'console' so can be read by either software UNTIL THE DATA IS DELETED !

Data can ONLY be deleted, in software, by the EW system. The file will build up and finally start to replace the oldest data.

What i do is SAVE the monthly data sets in EW.

It sounds complicated but is very simple. Go into 'history', set the first and last date/time, then EXPORT the data to a convenient location (eg. C:Program Files/EW/data_backup)
Use a monthly notation as the file name (eg. EW_09_May.csv)

You could, of course, ignore all this and just use Cumulus but its something else to play with.

I just like putting the CSV files into Excell for graphing and whu. Sad, i know but it keeps more out of the pub for a couple of hours each month