Cumulus Support

Hi Steve

I have successfully done this before but am having a senior moment today.

I have changed the front (index) page for my site to include links to my email, Weather Underground, and Met Office WOW. All successfully done by editing and uploading the IndexT.htm

I can't remember how before I did the email link, as today it is showing an error page if I use it. The others are fine as they are weblinks. I use Dreamweaver to edit web pages (old version however)

Would you remind me what I am doing wrong please? (attached htm page)

Many thanks.

You need "mailto:"

Yes, of course I do. D'oh

Thank you so much.. Comes of getting old I am afraid. )

Nick I was looking at your site and I noticed you have been running since 2010 but it would appear you have not followed the instructions to update your monthly records in the 1.9.3. release as April - December are blank.

Instructions are here https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9286 Month by Month all time records.

Thanks for pointing that out. I just took a quick look at that page and can see I will have to study it closely to see what you mean. Huge amount of information on there to digest. Not sure exactly which bit you are referring to. I'll make a cup of tea and clear my head and have another look.

Cheers

Nick it is this bit.

Month-by-month all time records, and web tags. These are things like 'highest ever January temperature' etc. These aren't initialised automatically, the simplest way to do this is:

1. Open the new monthly records editor (on the Edit) menu
2. Click the 'fetch dayfile data' button, select the tab for each month in turn and click the 'copy' button in the header row to copy the dayfile data
3. To get a full set of records, you may also need to use the 'Fetch log data' button to fetch the data from the monthly log files. Note that you can click the copy button next to a particular entry just to copy that entry.
4. Click OK.

Just repeat 2 for each month Jan - Dec, but take note of 3.

Okay... I think I have done it... Would you have a look for me and tell me if this now looks correct please?

I confess I am no techy, but am keen that this should all record as accuratey as possible.

Again many thanks. Very much appreciated, and shows the value of a community such as this.

Thanks

By the way.... love your site. Those gauges look awesome.

Nick, a suggestion about your forum signature, if I may? You appear to have applied the underline attribute to your web site address; this stops it being 'clickable'. If you put the ... tags around it instead, it will become clickable (just removing the underline tags may achieve the same thing with a short URL) and people will be able to go from here to your web site slightly more easily.

I think some browsers detect things that look like links and make them clickable automatically, so you may not have noticed an issue if you are using such a browser.

Hi Steve.

Yes, thanks for that; I had not realised it was wrong (never click my own link in the signature)

I think I have corrected it now. Much appreciated.

by the way Steve.... I love your experimental gauges page... yes please !!!!

Looks fantastic. Is this something you are expecting to release, or just something you are playing around with?

It's something I was playing around with, some time ago. You can get it from the downloads page - http://sandaysoft.com/downloads - it's the one whose description starts "A Silverlight application...".

It's unlikely that I'll ever get back to it, for two reasons: firstly, Silverlight doesn't seem to be very popular and Microsoft seem to be moving away from it, and secondly I would really have to take out a new subscription to the component set that it uses (it's the same set that Cumulus 2 used) and that's very expensive for something that I wouldn't have much use for.

Have you seen Mark Crossley's 'steel series' gauges? I think they're just as good, if not better, and they use a technology which seems to be a 'coming' thing rather than obsolescing as Silverlight seems to be. You can find out more about Mark's gauges in this section of the forum - https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=21 - and in the wiki - http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/SteelSeries_Gauges

Hi Nick,

I hope you don't mind me pointing out a couple of anomalies on your monthly and all-time records.

Highest all-time Wind Gust is 61mph on 15 Feb 2013 but January Monthly record shows 119mph on 7 Jan 2013.

Highest all-time daily rainfall is 9mm on 10 March 2013 but every monthly record bar December shows a higher amount.

Thanks Ray

Yes those wind anomolies are just that... anomolies. We have never to my knowledge had that sort of wind here. The station (as do many) does spurious spikes from time to time. Truth is....I get so bogged down trying to find the entries, that I end up with some oddities here and there.

I think I do incorrect things like delete an entry in the all time records when it is an obvious spike. Then I am not sure where it gets new data from.

I can find the wind entries and probably delete them, but the rain I have trouble with finding what to correct and what to replace it with.

I am no techy, and when I try and edit the records in Excel (so I can see the columns better) I end up with files that Cumulus can't read, and in a right muddle, so I have to do it the hard way, as a txt file in Notepad (yuk)

Hi Steve

I am (probably unwisely) attempting to install the SteelSeries gauges.

I have the zip file for it.... but Marks instructions don't say where to unzip it to. Do I just unzip to the \Cumulus folder? I can't see any mention of it on his pages on the Wiki

Or do I need to contact him direct?

Thanks