GW1202 a leap into...

[BobBing]

My fine offset station is running on Cumulus 1 since 2011 (a bit like triggers broom) and is overdue for retirement... Any views on running both systems in parallel on the same machine while I get to grips with Ecowitt and MX? Thanks

[Gyvate]

I haven't tried as I don't use the legacy Cumulus, only CumulusMX, but in principle it should be possible to run two Cumulus instances on the same host/server (old + new or even new + new).
I think you have to install CMX into a directory named \CumulsMX (or ../CumulusMX if Linux based) somewhere in your file system - and not in contact with your still used legacy Cumulus directory.

The CMX admin interface runs by default on http port 8998 (and possibly the old Cumulus too, here I'm speculating).
If you start your CMX from inside the ..\CumulusMX directory in a console window and the command line (Windows)
...\CumulusMX> CumulusMX.exe port 8999 it should come up and can be accessed via http://IP-CMX-host:8999 or http://localhost:8999
(under Linux and MacOS it's in principle the same, only you have to start CMX via the mono library (CMX v.3 - e.g. sudo mono CumulusMX.exe) or the dotnet library (v.4).)

like this they would run independent of each other.

When you use a GW1200 with CMX (GW1202 is a station model name, package, kit), you configure your station in CMX as "Ecowitt local API" and provide the IP address of your gateway. (Can be seen in the WS View Plus app # or in your router).

[PaulMy]

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My fine offset station is running on Cumulus 1 since 2011 (a bit like triggers broom) and is overdue for retirement... Any views on running both systems in parallel on the same machine while I get to grips with Ecowitt and MX? 

I agree with Gyvate, that should work as long as the weather station/console are different - the old Fine Offset is different to the new 'Ecowitt'. I have used CU1 with the USB/Envoy (Davis) station, and CMX with WiFiLogger/Vue console (also Davis) in the past on my original Windows 8 PC. I now run CU1 and CMX on separate PC.

Enjoy,
Paul