Changes from version 1.8.3:

- Added ET,UV and Solar Rad for Davis stations
- Added pressure range config for forecast
- Added config for FTP port number
- Improved Fine Offset rain rate calculation
- Display Davis transmitter battery status
- Fixed an error in one of the forecast strings
- Fixed a startup problem for some Fine Offset users
- Added battery status for WMR-928 (etc)
- Added ET,UV and SolarRad to realtime.txt
- Fixed <#temptrendtext> tag for deg F users
- Fixed colour change for daily rain chart
- Increased pressure and ET resolution by 1 dp for Davis
- Added experimental forced VP barometer update
- Help now has search facility
- Prevent calibrated humidity being >100 or <0
- Fixed ET decimal places
- Added day length, moonrise, and moonset times, with web tags
- Added ‘delete before upload’ option for ftp
- Improved ftp connect timeout handling
- Added resize option for web graph files
- Added <#windrunY> web tag - yesterday’s wind run
- Added extra debugging for WS2300
- Changed latitude/longitude/elevation web tag output to have &nbsp;
- Fixed WS2300 absolute pressure in history data bug
- Fixed garbage entry when downloading WS2300 history
- Ignore dubious relative pressure reading at startup (Fine Offset)
- Save backups of data files at startup
- Use different temp filenames for realtime uploads
- Adds 10-minute average wind bearing (degrees) to realtime.txt
- Add latest gust to data log
- Option to plot latest gust instead of recent max gust
- Option to display bearing of zero degrees and ‘—’ when calm
- Added ‘rain last hour’ to realtime.txt

- Changed “kph” to “km/h”
- Changed graphs left axis increment for rainfall in inches
- Fixed temp/pressure/rain last hour and rate during startup
- Fixed wind direction offset crash
- Added ‘build’ web tag
- Wunderground ‘rapid fire’ option
- ‘Close on suspend’ option
- Improved UI responsiveness
- Support for La Crosse WS2300 range
- Added creation of wxnow.txt file
- Fixed display of calibrated wind values
- Added inside temp and humidity to data log file
- Added inside temp, inside and outside humidity to select-a-graph
- Changed default date/times for select-a-graph
- Changed checking of Fine Offset status byte
- Swapped positions of Temp Min/Max and Rain Today thumbnails
- Fixed some problems with VP2 logger data download
- Attempt to cater for repeated data line at Fine Offset startup
- Corrected display of ‘yesterday’ calibrated rain
- Changed due north bearing from zero to 360 degrees
- Added extra diagnostics for Wunderground update
- Encoded space in Wunderground string correctly
- Added two new graphs, and average temp to min/max graph
- Fixed problem where data logs don’t get created on first run (Oregon only)
- Fixed windchill calculation for data from Davis logger
- Allow for calibration in wind chill, dew point, and heat index
- ‘Calculate wind chill’ option
- Use calibrated pressure in all-time records etc
- Added support for xAP Home Automation weather reports
- Added option to generate weather forecasts

I strongly recommend that you back up the contents of your Cumulus data folder before installing this release.

This version has a number of improvements to prevent ‘bad’ data being received from Fine Offset/Watson/MyDel etc stations. Users of these stations are strongly recommended to upgrade.

Also new in this release is a small enhancement to allow the background colour of the clock to be changed.

This version should solve most of the problems that many people have been having with the ‘Easyweather Direct’ mode for direct USB connection to Fine Offset and similar rebadged stations.

New in this release:

• Fixed a bug where the units set on the first run weren’t used until a restart
• Added support for PWS Weather/WeatherForYou/HAMweather
• Fixed problem where ‘easyweather direct’ mode didn’t work for some users
• Corrected pressure display for ‘easyweather direct’ mode to allow for calibrated value
• Changed all degree symbols on web pages to &deg; - really did it this time!

Cumulus version 1.7.14 is now available for download.

This release is mainly bug fixes and a bit of tweaking.

This version adds support for ‘Easyweather’ stations (e.g. MyDEL, Nevada, Fine Offset etc) by ‘piggy-backing’ off the easyweather.dat file.

Also, a new ‘real time’ display of wind speed and direction for the web, using an Adobe Flash application. Go to http://www.sanday.org.uk/weather/gauges.htm to see how it looks.

This version also allows you to enter your rainfall for the year so far when you first start using Cumulus.

Note that the gauges web page needs a few files uploading to your web site, these are provided in the webfiles folder where you installed Cumulus. There’s a javsscript file, and a ‘dbimages’ folder containing various other files. These all need uploading to your ‘base’ Cumulus folder on your web site (keep the dbimages files inside that folder). See the help file if this isn’t clear. If it still isn’t clear, ask in the forum.

The CSS file has also been modified slightly, you will also need to upload this to your web site to replace the existing one.