Cumulus Support

Build 909 available:

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

- currentconditions.txt updates main display when tag is processed (and deletes file)
- Installer now offers option of not installing web templates
- Added alarms for temperature and pressure change (see help for new web tags)

Build 910 available:

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

- Handle (by ignoring) errors from creation of moon bitmap - for 'normal' ftp
- configurable time for average wind speed - AvgSpeedMinutes in cumulus.ini

Build 912 available:

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

- Draws (optional) horizontal line at freezing point on temperature graphs
- Added wind direction to Select-A-Graph

Build 913 available:

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

- Attempt to work around Windows 7 date format problem
- Change wording of <#tomorrowdaylength> web tag
- Fix freezing point line appearing below the axis

Build 918 available:

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

- Fix a problem with colours of wind direction graph
- Change small wind direction graph to plot average
- Add check for WS2300 'error' wind speed value in history data
- Improve small pressure chart X-axis max/min for inHg
- Remove work around for freezing point line off-graph (causes other problems)

Build 920 available:

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

- Change single quote (minutes) in latitude and longitude web tags to '
- Attempt to stop the sporadic crashes at close down

Please let me know if you still get crashes at close down, and also if you have any problems getting Cumulus to close down.

- Add logging of all time record changes

Description of the log file (from the Help):

Cumulus also keeps a log of changes to the alltime records, called alltimelog.txt, which can be found in the data folder. An entry is added to this file every time an all-time record changes, with details of the old and new records. This log can then be used to 'backtrack' if spurious data causes an all-time record to be broken incorrectly. It is also a useful log of when records were actually broken.

The format of entries in this log is as follows:

date time value "item name" old date old time old value

The dates are in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) and the times are in hh:mm 24-hour format (the separator is always a colon, irrespective of system settings), and the values are always to three decimal places. You should round the values appropriately when using them. The quotes are present with the item names. An example:

2010-02-24 05:19 -7.600 "Lowest temperature" 2009-02-09 04:50 -6.500

Build 924 available:

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

- Change all-time records file to an 'ini' file
- Fix single quotes in lat/lon in existing settings
- Fix a problem where rain total sometimes doesn't reset at start of day

Note: This build changes the format of the all-time records file. Instead of a binary file called alltime.rec, it is now an 'ini' file called alltime.ini. The first time you run this build, it will convert your file into the new format. An example of the contents is given below. Note that date/time/decimal formats are all as per your system locale settings. Values are stored with arbitrary precision and are rounded as required.

Build 925 available:

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

- Added 'please wait' box when closing, to make sure logging has finished

Build 927 available:

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

- Set location of alltime.ini file explicitly, to avoid working directory problems

Build 930 available:

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

- Truncate Twitter messages at 140 chars
- make graphs window resizeable, so scroll bars appear when necessary

This will probably be the last 1.8.9 beta before it replaces 1.8.8 as the latest release. I'll then start on the enhancement requests in a 1.9.0 beta.

Cumulus 1.8.9 (build 930) has now been released. There is currently no beta version.