Multiple Copies of Cumulus 1 on same Machine?

[TNETWeather]

In setting up a template site, I want to run a second copy of Cumulus 1 along side the other one. Getting its own feed from the weather station itself is easy since I use VirtualVP, but I don't know if I would run into other issues like perhaps registry settings?

Steve, do I have a problem with this or is all the updated the software self-contained?

Currently, on my XP box I have c:\Program Files\Cumulus I would install the second copy to c:\Program Files\Tempate

This is not attempting to run both Cumulus1 and Cumulus2.

[steve]

It shouldn't be a problem, the installations are self-contained and don't use the registry (apart from the usual standard uninstall info).

[TNETWeather]

Thanks

[gemini06720]

Kevin, at one time, on my old XP Pro computer, I had 3 Cumulus running, 2 Cumulus1 and 1 Cumulus2, all through VirtualVP.

Each copy of Cumulus was installed in its own folder, such as K:\Cumulus1-1 (for the first Cumulus1), K:\Cumulus1-2 (for the second Cumulus1) and K:\Cumulus2-1 (for the Cumulus2). I encounter no conflict nor problem.

[TNETWeather]

Already setup. Only "issue" if you want to even call it that, is that they have the same system tray icon, but its not that big of a deal. Once it is setup and running I don't need to touch it any more.

Box is headless (no video, keyboard etc..) so I don't watch it... just collecting data so that the new template is a real as possible rather than symbolic links from the other site just like someone who would load it for the first time.

[gemini06720]

Box is headless (no video, keyboard etc..) so I don't watch it... just collecting data so that the new template is a real as possible rather than symbolic links from the other site just like someone who would load it for the first time.

Kevin, you are using PHP for a lot of your scripts... Why not use a file such as 'cumuluswebtags.php' (which contains all the tags produced by Cumulus) and have the file read by all the templates (with a PHP include/require)?

Just a suggestion ... rather than running multiple copies of Cumulus...

[TNETWeather]

Kevin, you are using PHP for a lot of your scripts... Why not use a file such as 'cumuluswebtags.php' (which contains all the tags produced by Cumulus) and have the file read by all the templates (with a PHP include/require)?

I already use a webtags system. Been using it for more than a year. It is XML based sort of. It actually is a data file that is sent from the workstation to the website, but is parsed by another php script that outputs the data in XML format.

http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/cumulus-xml.php - Exports XML

http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/cumulus-xml.php?desc - Exports a self-documentation of the data (missing some descriptions as I didn't bother completing it).

I have a number of sites that use that data along with the collected realtime data.

http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/ - A PHP template similar to what Cumulus generates
http://cumulus2.tnet.com/ - A prototype system that is completely run by the xml and realtime stuff.. there were 2 other sites where I was picking up realtime.txt data from remote sites (one in metric the other in English formats).
http://test04.tnet.com - My development site where I experimented on how to create this into a wiki based system. This site doesn't have anything loaded to it, it simply grabs copies from the other site.

Purpose of second cumulus:

Setting up the template demo site which will be basically what it will look like when it is downloaded, I needed to make sure that it gets the real data from a real cumulus station without snarfing it from another site. Otherwise I can't document/test it.

Hence the second cumulus system.

I plan on generating a new webtags system though as I have had problems with the XML idea. It sometimes is slow and doesn't work correctly for reasons I've never been able to figure out.

I would use the other one that you mention, but the data is not formatted as I am accustomed. I prefer the data to be stored into a single array rather than individual variables. Much easier to include into multi-function PHP scripts.

[gemini06720]

Kevin, thank you very much for your concise information - clear as mud...

Not really, I did understand your point and it make a lot of sense ... considering that I did something similar (running 2 copies of Cumulus) when I started adapting the Cumulus HTM files to my PHP needs...