mcrossley wrote: ↑Thu 05 Aug 2021 9:35 pm
What you need is "strings.ini". There is a samplestrings.ini in the root CumulusMX folder. Copy that to strings.ini, edit the fields you want (if you like, you can delete the entries you do not need - just for clarity). Then restart Cumulus MX.
The Wiki has had
https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Strings.ini to explain this concept ever since November 2009, indeed some updates of that page were contributed by you, Mark.
This renaming/configuration is also discussed on
MX on Linux page, at
Extra Sensor customisation, and on a few other Wiki pages, so where ever anyone starts, this concept is well documented.
A new page
https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Samplestring.ini was added last January to offer yet another entry point, after a request last year to document every folder/file included in MX release distributions.
Grahame Rob wrote: ↑Fri 06 Aug 2021 8:44 pm
Great and thanks for the reply, is there a wiki on how to do this? I'm not very experienced with the Raspberry Pi, this is my first one
If you are unsure about editing your Raspberry Pi files remotely, have a read of
Upgrading on a Raspberry Pi computer by commands from a Microsoft Windows computer. It refers to using a Microsoft Windows PC with remote terminal sessions or file transfers, giving access to the Raspberry Pi files.
Of course, if you want to write up into the Wiki, some new text, reporting what you discover, in an easier way, to help others in future, see Freddie's message in the pink area. Put it on a new page if you are unsure where is best existing page,(or ask Ken True, the person who hosts the Wiki via
saratogaWX for advice).
Did you read Mark's
https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Raspberry_Pi_Image page?
When you feel up to reading more about RPi, try
https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Raspberry_Pi_computer_page and other parts of the
MX on Linux and
Upgrading pages mentioned above. Obviously, take it slowly, reading only parts of these pages selected from table of contents!
mcrossley wrote: ↑Fri 06 Aug 2021 10:01 pm
I don't think there is anything in the Wiki about doing this specifically.
As linked above, there is now.
Of course, Wiki can be improved further, and that is why there is always an appeal for more Wiki contributors to help. It is hard work to:
1) expand Wiki coverage, (The Wiki is lacking information about Davis, and Ecowitt, hardware, and other items mentioned in
https://cumuluswiki.org/a/How_you_can_contribute)
2) keep existing Wiki information up to date as MX transforms/develops so quickly ( MX has drastically altered in last 2 years)
3) rewrite pages so that the new style of simple information for novices (people used to use Cumulus 1 help for that) is put first on pages, before the more technical information (people used to depend on Wiki for that with Cumulus 1).
4) various formerly long pages have had some content moved elsewhere, so information is arranged more logically, and more of that is needed.