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Rain counter reset confirmed

From Cumulus MX version 3 build 3044 the development baton passed to Mark Crossley. Mark has been responsible for all the Builds since, and has recently released Cumulus MX version 4. He has made the code available on GitHub. It is Mark's hope that others will join in this development, but at the very least he welcomes your ideas for future developments (see Cumulus MX Development suggestions).

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Rain counter reset confirmed

Post by Beny44 »

Hello.
I switched from installing CumulusMX from Win 10 to Rpi3+. Everything went fine except for one error in the log.
The previous build was 3, now I'm on the last 4.
The error in the log looks like this:

Rain counter reset confirmed: RaindayStart = 1234.4, Raincounter = 617.2

I don't know how to get rid of it.
Thank you for any info.
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

Post by mcrossley »

The rain counter comes from your station. Without logs with debug and data logging, I would say previously it was sending 1234.4mm and now it is sending 617.2mm.

The message tells you Cumulus has detected this change and will compensate for it so the total in Cumulus should remain correct.
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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Thank you.

In the today.ini file I have this:

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[Rain]
High=0
HTime=2024-12-28T00:00:00
HourlyHigh=0
HHourlyTime=2024-12-28T00:00:00
High24h=0
High24hTime=2024-12-28T00:00:00
Start=1234.4000000000001
Yesterday=0
LastTip=2024-12-26 09:49
ConsecutiveRainDays=0
ConsecutiveDryDays=1
RG11Today=0
Midnight=617.20000000000005
Last=617.20000000000005
617,2 is the annual total - according to the records, this is the correct number.

The today.ini file is created continuously on the day according to the station data or from some calculation done by CumulusMX?
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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One more addition.
In the old installation today.ini looks like this.

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[Rain]
High=0
HTime=00:00
HourlyHigh=0
HHourlyTime=00:00
High24h=0
High24hTime=00:00
Start=617.20000000000005
Yesterday=0
LastTip=2024-12-26 09:49
ConsecutiveRainDays=0
ConsecutiveDryDays=1
RG11Today=0
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

Post by De Hout »

I'm unable to help with this one, but it strikes me that 617.20000000000005 X 2 = 1234.4000000000001
Can't be a coincidence. :?:
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

Post by freddie »

It's interesting that 617.2 x 2 is 1234.4. Perhaps you started up MX and then entered the yearly total so far. As Mark said, the total actually comes from the station, so no need to manually set it - if that is what you did
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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freddie wrote: Sat 28 Dec 2024 4:18 pm Perhaps you started up MX and then entered the yearly total so far.
Yes, I ran MX with data from an old installation with the wrong COM port. So the data from the station was not updated.

How should I proceed now to get everything right.
Reading the data on the wiki, my understanding so far is that there is no point in editing today.ini, that it will be recalculated according to the cached data.
Thanks for more info.
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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I've edited it via the rain editor and it seems to be bug free.

Thank you all again and have a wonderful New Year
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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Beny44 wrote: Sat 28 Dec 2024 4:55 pm Thank you all again and have a wonderful New Year
I am glad that my answer provided a small hint in the right direction.

A weatherful ;) 2025 to you too!
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Dayfile.txt CumulusMX3 vs CumulusMX4

Post by Beny44 »

There was another error.
CumulusMX4 does not load the dayfile.txt file correctly.
My formatting is the same as in the old installation, but according to the listing there it has errors.

MX3

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06.12.13;40,2;0;15:50;-1,0;23:01;1,4;15:02;1008,44;14:59;1012,84;23:50;0,0;00:00;0,0;0,3;56,9;11,3;22:37;66;15:20;93;22:54;0,00;0,0;1,4;15:02;-1,4;15:48;-5,4;22:47;0,0;00:00;-6,0;16:18;-1,8;23:27;-4,2;15:20;228;6,7;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
07.12.13;40,2;211;15:50;-0,7;07:32;1,7;11:20;1012,47;00:00;1021,58;23:15;0,0;00:00;0,0;0,5;139,9;16,1;00:40;69;02:39;93;23:54;0,00;0,0;1,7;11:20;-1,0;14:29;-5,9;00:41;0,0;00:00;-4,9;00:41;0,1;23:54;-5,0;02:39;238;17,8;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
08.12.13;38,6;184;02:21;0,9;00:12;4,6;13:11;1020,76;23:25;1024,15;10:22;0,0;00:00;0,8;3,3;100,6;9,7;23:06;85;14:37;93;00:00;0,00;0,0;4,6;13:11;2,4;13:17;-2,0;00:14;0,4;08:16;-0,5;00:14;2,6;12:12;-0,1;00:12;182;15,0;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
09.12.13;37,0;175;08:03;4,3;00:01;6,6;19:48;1019,54;05:31;1029,26;23:56;3,6;01:32;1,6;5,7;133,3;11,3;05:46;84;13:13;92;02:05;0,00;0,0;6,6;19:48;5,1;19:48;1,1;02:35;1,0;02:27;2,0;02:35;4,6;23:39;2,3;00:01;187;12,6;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
MX4

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06.12.13;40,2;0;15:50;-1,0;23:01;1,4;15:02;1008,44;14:59;1012,84;23:50;0,0;00:00;0,0;0,3;56,9;11,3;22:37;66;15:20;93;22:54;0,00;0,0;1,4;15:02;-1,4;15:48;-5,4;22:47;0,0;00:00;-6,0;16:18;-1,8;23:27;-4,2;15:20;228;6,7;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
07.12.13;40,2;211;15:50;-0,7;07:32;1,7;11:20;1012,47;00:00;1021,58;23:15;0,0;00:00;0,0;0,5;139,9;16,1;00:40;69;02:39;93;23:54;0,00;0,0;1,7;11:20;-1,0;14:29;-5,9;00:41;0,0;00:00;-4,9;00:41;0,1;23:54;-5,0;02:39;238;17,8;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
08.12.13;38,6;184;02:21;0,9;00:12;4,6;13:11;1020,76;23:25;1024,15;10:22;0,0;00:00;0,8;3,3;100,6;9,7;23:06;85;14:37;93;00:00;0,00;0,0;4,6;13:11;2,4;13:17;-2,0;00:14;0,4;08:16;-0,5;00:14;2,6;12:12;-0,1;00:12;182;15,0;0,0;0;00:00;0,0;00:00
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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I found that MigrateData3to4 helps me.
But I haven't found instructions for it anywhere and will it run on Rpi?
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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You need to read this post - it contains essential reading for upgrading to MX version 4.
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Re: Rain counter reset confirmed

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Converted in win installation. This seems to be ok already
Ufff :-)
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