Cumulus Support

Posted: **Sun 02 Apr 2023 8:51 am**

My Raspberry Pi hosted installation has been running for years without upgrade. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. I have had the odd unexplainable and explainable crash (mainly due to mains supply problems), but nothing that led me to feel the need to make any software changes.

I put the reliability down to the quality of Steve's original Cumulus and the fact the RPi 3 boots directly from an SSD

I was running b3043 on Raspbian Jessie (3 builds behind). The only changes have been to the html pages and interval scripts to scrape the level from local river gauges. I was a little embarrassed by the build number at the bottom corner of my web page.

My upgrade route was to do raspbian in place, by editing the update scripts, each time - Jessie to Stretch to Buster to Bullseye. https://djangocas.dev/blog/upgrade-exis ... -re-image/This went without any problems. The reason I did it in place was to preserve the booting sequence. I had a boot able SD with Jessie and a copy of my Cumulus directory tree, the data directory of the running Cumulus is copied off every half hour so that would have been the extent of my loss. Then I upgraded mono and Apache to the latest with no problems. Last step was to copy the Cumulus tree to a new location, copy the b3235 distribution over it and test. Flawless. I promise to keep more up to date in the future.

I would just like to congratulate all for making Cumulus the thing it is.

Posted: **Sun 02 Apr 2023 5:08 pm**

you must live in a serious climate. your records indicate some record braking values:

http://weather.mountpleasanthouse.uk/record.htm

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Temperature and Humidity
Highest Temperature	54.0 °C	at 20:17 on 08 September 2017
Lowest Temperature	-67.8 °C	at 01:31 on 21 October 2021
Highest Dew Point	45.0 °C	at 15:17 on 14 September 2017
Lowest Dew Point	-95.6 °C	at 20:08 on 30 October 2021
Highest Apparent Temperature	77.6 °C	at 15:17 on 14 September 2017
Lowest Apparent Temperature	-72.1 °C	at 17:48 on 26 October 2021
Lowest Wind Chill Temperature	-67.8 °C	at 01:31 on 21 October 2021
Highest Heat Index	149.7 °C	at 15:17 on 14 September 2017
Highest Minimum	21.1 °C	at 00:00 on 01 April 2021
Lowest Maximum	-3.1 °C	at 22:13 on 01 March 2018
Highest Humidity	100 %	at 07:37 on 02 April 2021
Lowest Humidity	1 %	at 10:09 on 02 August 2017
Highest Daily Range	85.6 °C	on 27 October 2021
Lowest Daily Range	0.0 °C	on 03 August 2017

Rainfall
Highest Rain Rate	999.0 mm/hr	at 23:40 on 21 September 2017
Highest Hourly Rainfall	996.9 mm	at 05:46 on 05 August 2017
Highest Daily Rainfall	17681.4 mm	on 02 September 2017
Highest Monthly Rainfall	47144.7 mm	August 2017
Longest Dry Period	21 days	to 27 April 2021
Longest Wet Period	27 days	to 12 January 2023

Wind
Highest Wind Gust	184 km/h	at 08:59 on 09 September 2017
Highest Wind Speed Average	202 km/h	at 01:40 on 13 September 2017
Highest Daily Wind Run	1555.2 km	on 03 January 2018

Pressure
Lowest Pressure (sl)	930.4 hPa	at 05:33 on 13 September 2017
Highest Pressure (sl)	1049.0 hPa	at 00:38 on 20 January 2020

Posted: **Wed 05 Apr 2023 9:57 pm**

your records indicate some record braking values

I know, it's embarrassing. I had a previous weather station (Maplin) that went doolally and injected a lot of duff records. Every now and then I have a session deleting them but I'm not there yet

Posted: **Thu 06 Apr 2023 11:45 am**

Incidentally, what is wrong with the image in my signature? Is it too large, what are the critera for [img]?

I upgraded my camera since I was here last, and have changed from full res (4608 by 2592) to low res (640 by 480) but it still does not come out

http://weather.mountpleasanthouse.uk/webcam/latest.jpg
to
http://weather.mountpleasanthouse.uk/webcam/low-res

Posted: **Thu 06 Apr 2023 1:34 pm**

Mixed content restriction. The forum server uses https but your link is plain http. If your link was https then it would display. I think you can change a setting in your browser to allow mixed content.

Posted: **Thu 06 Apr 2023 3:51 pm**

Ta. Changing my site to a self published certificate is well overdue.

I'll get to it as part of my Pi refurb

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