Support forum for Cumulus weather station software
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I can't actually tell you exactly how Cumulus 1 works when catching-up. Your variation is however not unusual, I and I am sure others saw it sometimes when running Cumulus 1. If Cumulus 1 seemed slow for me in doing a catch up, I sometimes forced it to stop and start again using the "rewind" method described in the FAQ as linked at top of every forum page. But you do need to understand the background to what is involved for that.amaclac wrote: ↑Wed 29 Apr 2020 8:55 am There is an inconsistency in the speed of processing the data when connecting to the laptop (fairly new laptop Windows 10). For example, today it was particularly bad just having to process less than a 24 hour period taking around 4 minutes. On other days, it can fly through it.
The Cumulus 1 you are using has a very easy to understand help text; just click the menu where it says help!
I don't wish to muddy the waters, but I don't think you can install 1099.2 like the other releases, as it is just a patch (zip file containing the Cumulus executable) - there is no installer. So, to get to 1099.2 you have to do this:sfws wrote: ↑Thu 30 Apr 2020 11:23 amTo upgrade to latest build 1099.2:
An upgrade simply overwrites the existing installation with new code, but it does not change any existing data. Consequently, you don't need to worry you will mess anything up.
Obviously you have to exit Cumulus so it stops using the files you are going to update.
1. If you are frightened you might lose something you have customised, take a copy of the "Cumulus" directory by right clicking on it, select Copy and then right click somewhere empty on your desktop and select Paste. You now have a copy, that after lockdown anybody can find! It is also a copy that you can be told how to return to, without a visit.
2. go to https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Software#Cumulus_1, click on that link to download the installation routine.
3. That software page tells you to read through all the release information, I have done that for you, going from 1094 to 1099.2 does not need any extra actions (as Paul suggests some bugs are fixed and some extra features are added, but there is nothing extra for you to do).
4. So just click on your download, the same sort of installation screen (see https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Setup) you might see when updating anything else on your PC appears, just follow the instructions (click Next), it will automatically overwrite your existing installation. As I say it updates the code but does not affect your data.
5. When the install finishes, you exit it and simply restart Cumulus. It is as simple as that.
The patch 1099.2 at exactly the place I linked to https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Software#Cumulus_1 is what you should use, i.e. https://cumuluswiki.org/Downloads/cumulus.1099.2.zip . The old 1099 build that Freddie links to was removed because its dropdown lists ended with 2019! I don't think anybody would want that, so SaratogaWX was right to remove that at 17:30 last Tuesday.
Legacy Cumulus 1 release v1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014 (a patch is available for 1.9.4 build 1099 that extends the date range of the NOAA report and Snow Index drop-down menus to 2030)
But that is just a (zipped up) patched executable. There's no installer in the patch - which is how Cumulus 1 is installed (properly). This is why, when I edited the announcement panel, I left the reference to the original 1099 build in place. If you "install" the patch all you get is the executable - nothing else.
I agree with you. It all used to be easy, I had not realised it was not any more. I did not realise how much Cumulus 1 had become inaccessible to those like you wanting to do an upgrade. It is probably why so many web sites I look at are using out of date versions of Cumulus 1. I'm not happy that the developers are making assumptions about our knowledge in this, because builds 1090 to 1099 are also labelled as patches in the versions page of the Wiki, yet they behave differently to also so-called patches 1099.1 and 1099.2. I wonder how non-technical people are meant to understand all this.
Well, I am surprised at that, because Mark says his patch changes the displayed build number, but I can't be expected to understand the language professional developers like Freddie and Mark use. My own time as a professional in computing was decades ago, and I never encountered these concepts.
The decision to remove the "patched from 1099 November 2014 source" link must have been made somewhere between Ken and Mark for that edit I mentioned. I know I have been asking for that Software page to be updated for a while, but I did not ask for that link to be removed, just for the patch to be promoted, and a few other structural changes to make the page friendlier.
Look just download the installer CumulusSetup.exe from https://cumuluswiki.org/Downloads/CumulusSetup.exe. Run that installer. Then done, you are on 1099, the final version.amaclac wrote: ↑Thu 30 Apr 2020 1:56 pm "Put a copy of your downloaded patch somewhere safe.
Download the installer that Freddie linked to. Run that, then copy your patch on top of the Cumulus.exe in the install."
Sadly I am not technical enough to do this so I will stay where I am and if it takes a few minutes to update each time I connect, so be it. For info, it was a lot quicker this morning. I was thinking there might be a temp file holding connection up, but it appears not.
Thanks for your efforts, guys. This is clearly not designed for non-techies like me!