Cumulus Support

Might as well condense my 5 part questions: 3-5 are most important

1. Is there a way to change the title "My Weather" to something else?
2. Is there a link or video tutorial on how to use the editor to fix some errors?
3. How do I fix the 24hrs total (yesterday was only .02")
4. How do I fix the graphs showing the rain rate error of 30"?
5. Is there a way to fix the rain graph? I caliborated the rain total higher at 6am to match my 2 other rain gauges. I want the chart to show the total for the 3am hour when it rained not 6am.
6. Is it possible I have to multiple the rain total by 1.60? Why so much?

Cambium wrote:1. Is there a way to change the title "My Weather" to something else?

In the display settings.

2. Is there a link or video tutorial on how to use the editor to fix some errors?

Just the help. Sorry.

3. How do I fix the 24hrs total (yesterday was only .02")

Stop Cumulus and edit the 'total rain counter' field(s) in the June log file; the rain in the last 24 hours figure is calculated by subtracting two values 24 hours apart. Your station invented some rain, I can't say exactly what happened because you've only given me the diags file for today.

4. How do I fix the graphs showing the rain rate error of 30"?

Stop Cumulus and edit the 'rain rate' field in the June log file.

5. Is there a way to fix the rain graph? I caliborated the rain total higher at 6am to match my 2 other rain gauges. I want the chart to show the total for the 3am hour when it rained not 6am.

That's a result of changing the calibration factor. Stop Cumulus and edit the 'total rainfall today so far' figures.

6. Is it possible I have to multiple the rain total by 1.60? Why so much?

Assuming it's nothing to do with how you've sited it, then the most likely explanation is that it's a cheap weather station and it's unlikely that they calibrate them at the factory. I've seen other people using multipliers similar to yours with Fine Offset stations.

If you get 'phantom' rain frequently, it might be an idea to use the 'spike removal' settings for rain rate and rain in last hour. Cumulus tries to keep today's rain total sensible, but it's not easy when the station supplies a faulty reading, and not all of the train figures are easily corrected automatically.

Thanks Steve! All is done and good thanks to you. One thing I have to find is the 'total rain counter' for 6/1/12 to fix the 24hr total... All I see is .02" so not sure why the 24hr total says 5.83. Its not a big deal unless it affects the average data anywhere. I'll keep checking.

I attached the June log.

The counter appears to have jumped up suddenly and stayed there, so it's not really practical to edit the counters in the log files - you'd never catch up with the current value, if you see what I mean. The 'last 24 hours' figure will just correct itself when the jump is more than 24 hours ago, and then won't affect any of the other data.

On an unrelated matter your sunrise time of 01:54hrs and sunset time of 14:02hrs suggests something is either wrong with your clock time or the latitude / longitude you have entered in Cumulus.

I keep forgetting the sunrise and cloud base fix. Thanks guys!