Cumulus Support

I'm new to Cumulus, But as there's always room for improvment. I have some ideas for improvement.

1 Put some sort of graphing and charting feature on the main screen.
2 Instead of trend monitors under that specific variable, have a seperate box on main screen for trends.
And display trends for 3 Hr, 6 Hr, 12 Hr, 24 Hr, 3 days, 7 days, month, and year on most or all variables.
3 Include "SMART" conditions like, fog, heat, wind, frost/ice, dangerous UV levels, flood.
4 Allow Cumulus to maximize to full screen. Not 6/10th's of the screen!
5 UV MED's and burn time. (Skin type entered by user)
6 Forecast icons with wind indicator. (graphic flag wind sock)
7 Comfort indicator.
8 Support for Davis leaf/soil stations.
9 Wind/solar energy hours.
10 Accumulated days with or without rain.
11 Fire index indicator.
12 Custome graphs including bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, dot graphs. and 3D (mountain graphs). With curser, data point (where curser is display, data for that time point). Not having to geuss and round what the data was on the graph at a specific time.
13 Max UV/solar.
14 Webcam support. (Sandaysoft did have something for webcams, but they apperently lost it).
15 Graphics window. (virtual analog dials, gauges, thermometers, and rain gauge in full screen like a screen saver).
16 Wind star rose with interactive points to see more details on wind events.
17 To be able to click on wind, rain, barometer, temp, and sun boxes in main screen to see more info, graphs and data logs.
18 Display UV/solar/ET in seperate display than extra sensors. ( It gets annoying having to wait for the sun info with 2 extra sensors).
19 Data bug detector. If lets say the barometer or anemometer suddenly and briefly goes postal and gives bad data, this will display as a graph spike, it will be highlighted in red, and user can delete the bad data.
20 Use solar/UV data fluctuations/variations to calculate cloud % and sky coverage.

These are just ideas and suggestions. I know software developers are always trying to improve their programs. Sometimes it takes the thoughts and opinions of users to help developers.

If anyone likes, agrees, or has additional ideas, please back me up.

Thanks - and thanks for creating an enhancement request with this. I'm always happy to receive suggestions, but bear in mind that I'm already going as fast as I can implementing existing requests. There are some reasonable suggestions there; some of the things you've suggested have already been requested, and a few of them aren't possible with the tools I have at my disposal (I'm limited to what the charting component allows, for example), and I won't be adding webcam support, this is weather station software.

steve wrote:Thanks - and thanks for creating an enhancement request with this. I'm always happy to receive suggestions, but bear in mind that I'm already going as fast as I can implementing existing requests. There are some reasonable suggestions there; some of the things you've suggested have already been requested, and a few of them aren't possible with the tools I have at my disposal (I'm limited to what the charting component allows, for example), and I won't be adding webcam support, this is weather station software.

What happened to the webcam software? I went to download it and it said the "link was lost."

MckTXaws wrote:What happened to the webcam software? I went to download it and it said the "link was lost."

I lost the source code, sadly. I've no idea how it happened; it's a bit of a shame

steve wrote:

MckTXaws wrote:What happened to the webcam software? I went to download it and it said the "link was lost."

I lost the source code, sadly. I've no idea how it happened; it's a bit of a shame

It's okay I'm not going to die over it. A web cam is just something cool.

One question, Is just the Beta version compatible with the WMR100, or will the next release be too?

MckTXaws wrote:One question, Is just the Beta version compatible with the WMR100, or will the next release be too?

The current beta version will become the next release, at some point.

steve wrote:

MckTXaws wrote:One question, Is just the Beta version compatible with the WMR100, or will the next release be too?

The current beta version will become the next release, at some point.

The forecasting Cumulus uses (NON console) is one of the most accurate forecasting I've seen. Today it predicted "some precipitation." We got sprinkles! I read on the Wiki about the Zambretti Forecaster. Does the Davis Vantage Series use this same formula?

MckTXaws wrote:Does the Davis Vantage Series use this same formula?

I don't think anyone outside Davis knows for sure how it works. It seems to use an algorithm similar to the 'Sager' forecaster, which is a device similar to the Zambretti Forecaster.