Cumulus Support

My weather station had a rain spike (or dip) of -1600mm of rain in early Feb, so I tried to follow the instructions to remove this error, but every time I restarted Cumulus it downloaded this spike from the transmitter and messed up my rain count again.

So after searching on here I replaced the batteries in the transmitter to reset it (they were well over 12 months old anyway) and I restored all my files from a backup prior to the spike and changed the date on the today and yesterday files.

However to get my annual rain count correct I put in 22mm in the "rain so far this year" field, and everything looked fine...

until I restarted Cumulus yesterday and it included a -22mm for yesterday and 22mm for today. It has also set my min temp to zero for that day.

Does anyone know how to fix this for once and for all, I can't see where its getting these figures from?

hills wrote:So after searching on here I replaced the batteries in the transmitter to reset it (they were well over 12 months old anyway) and I restored all my files from a backup prior to the spike and changed the date on the today and yesterday files.

I don't understand why you edited the today.ini and yesterday.ini files; if you restored them from a backup, they would already be correct.

until I restarted Cumulus yesterday and it included a -22mm for yesterday and 22mm for today.

I assume they should both be zero? Edit the total for yesterday in the dayfile.txt editor. Use the 'today's rain editor' to set today to zero. Optionally, stop Cumulus and edit today.ini and set yesterday's total (only) to zero (or just wait until midnight and that figure will disappear anyway, it's only the dayfile.txt value which is permanent).

It has also set my min temp to zero for that day.

You can also correct this in the dayfile.txt editor.

Great thanks for that Steve.