Cumulus Support

Having just worked my way through a conversion from FineOffset to Davis Adavantage Vue - with much help from Steve - I am now at the records editing stage.

The biggest issue is that when I set up the console and weatherlink s/w at some point it invited me as far as I can remember to input a rainfall to date figure. I was converting from inches to mm so did a calculation and inputted what Cumulus had been showing of rainfall to date - albeit now in mm.

When I ran Cumulus a second time later in the day it took that figure - over 500mm - as a rainfall amount in that day!

What I would like to do if it is possible is to retain the rainfall to date figure but excise it from any records which would skew a daily/monthly figure if it were to be included. I know I can edit things like the dayfile text etc., but don't want to lose the rainfall for the year figure, or it's normal updating if possible. Is there a way around this i wonder?

Cheers

Cumulus uses the annual rainfall figure from the Davis to work out how much rain has fallen today (and hence all the other totals), so when the annual figure increased suddenly, that affected today's total in Cumulus. You can use Edit->Today's rain in Cumulus to correct that, and then restart Cumulus if necessary to get this month/year correct too. You can then edit any records which have been affected.

steve wrote:Cumulus uses the annual rainfall figure from the Davis to work out how much rain has fallen today (and hence all the other totals), so when the annual figure increased suddenly, that affected today's total in Cumulus. You can use Edit->Today's rain in Cumulus to correct that, and then restart Cumulus if necessary to get this month/year correct too. You can then edit any records which have been affected.

Thanks - I'll give it a whirl!!

Almost there!!

I think I have recovered most of the files and edited correctly - the one issue I still can't crack is:
Having cleared references to the 500mm rainfall entry a couple of days ago - I am struggling to find a way to update the rainfall for this year to include that figure. The Cumulus main screen is now just showing rainfall for this year at the small figure we had for yesterday's rain. Perhaps this edit isn't possible as Cumulus may depend entirely upon a different calculation?

Cheers

Cumulus calculates the annual rainfall from the daily totals in dayfile.txt, plus any 'year-to-date' value that you've configured in the station settings (after restarting).

steve wrote:Cumulus calculates the annual rainfall from the daily totals in dayfile.txt, plus any 'year-to-date' value that you've configured in the station settings (after restarting).

Thank you for your patience Steve - all seems fine now. Archive records have been retained, rainfall for the year OK, and I'm not worried about comparing previous months - I could I suppose go back and edit the data there to metric, but for the use the station gets, I think this is adequate. I look forward now to some proper record keeping.

Cheers and many thanks again