Absolute beginner - a few questions

[ims]

Cumulus MX 4.2.1 b4043

1) The program was set up yesterday afternoon, and today there’s an error message in the log regarding Dayfile.txt:
"LoadDayFile: No Dayfile found - No entries added to recent daily data list". Does this mean that Dayfile.txt will only be created after 9:00 AM, or should I create it manually myself?
EDIT: created manually yet and restart

2) Why is 9:00 AM prioritized for the Meteorological Day Log Rollover instead of midnight? Does this have any practical significance later on?
Can I switch it to midnight even though the program has been running since yesterday?
EDIT: Left at 9:00 AM - by the way - is it possible to change without damaging the data?

3) I don’t have a station with a solar sensor, yet the “Solar” section with zero values is still displayed on the Dashboard. I’ve set "Data visibility - Solar data - hidden" for all items. How can I hide it (in "Now" it is too)?

4) I assume that “Gauges” displays all the program’s capabilities, so Solar and UV index are shown even if the station doesn’t have them. Is this correct, or should they also be hidden if the station lacks these sensors?

My WPS3080 has wind (+direction), rain, temp and humidity sensors only. Setup: Fine Offset (and clones), FineOffset, Fine Offset (and clones) FineOffset

[mcrossley]

1) This message is output only the first day you run Cumulus, and no dayfile has yet been created by a rollover. You do not need to create the file manually. I've now supressed the message during first day running.

2) The default rollover is midnight.
If you switch between 9am and midnight then the records for yesterday will not be valid - however if it is only one day it will not really matter in teh scheme of things as you are very unlikely to have any long term records from that day. You can use the records editors to amend them after changing the rollover if you wish - use the values from the log files.

3) you would have to manually edit the HTML files and comment out the solar sections.

4) Correct, the standard dashboard always displays the "common" sensors T, H, W, R, Solar. I'm not sure if the alternate (AI2) dashboard does though, I'd have to check.

[ims]

As I know today, when my PC with CumulusMX was without internet connection, Cumulus cannot work in closed network without internet ?

Charts is impossible display etc ... It tried still connect code.highcharts.com only.

[mcrossley]

Correct, the charts will not work on a closed network. The chart code is provided by HighCharts and they changed their licence such that I can no longer bundle their code with Cumulus MX

We started to look at alternatives, but progress on that has stalled for now. Migration to a new package will be a fairly big job.

You can download the HighCharts files yourself to use locally, but then you would also have to change all the dashboard pages to use the local source.