1st impressions MX with WH-3080 and RPI Raspbian

[henkg]

Cumulus MX on a RPI with Raspian Wheezy

I have a RPI running Raspbian Wheezy + PYWWS (see my signature). It runs fine, but I like Cumulus far more.

What I did:
Bought a new 8 GB SD card
Formatted it with my digital camera
Downloaded Raspbian image from: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ 2014-12-24
Used Win32 disk imager to write this image to the card.
Shutdown the RPI running Raspbian with PYWWS: sudo shutdown now
Replaced the SD card.
After booting I checked the obtained DHCP address by looking in the connection list of the router.
Then I logged in with Putty on my Windows computer. (default user: pi, password raspberry)
I ran raspi-config: sudo raspi-config
Expanded the volume, and set the local time. No other changes.

So far, so good.
Is Mono installed already in the default Raspbian package?: No: the command mono –V reports: command not found.

So, on the command line using Putty:
- sudo apt-get update (this will take a few minutes)
- sudo apt-get install mono-complete (this will take about 10 minutes)
- sudo apt-get install automake (this will take about 2 minutes)
- sudo apt-get install libtool (this will take about 2 minutes)
(What has happened running these commands: a lot, but I really do not understand what)

After that, the command mono –V reports:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (Debian 3.2.8+dfsg-4+rpi1)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: normal
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: armel,vfp+hard
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: sgen
So I think I am ready for Steve’s installation files, find out where to put them, how to run …

About NOOBS: I am running a headless RPI (no keyboard, no monitor, just SSH access). Therefor I chose for Raspian, not NOOBS. Some wrote about a NOOBS headless installation, there seems to be a trick.

And then:

I installed Cumulus MX (3001), in /home/pi/cumulusMX
I ran sudo mono CumulusMX.exe

In the browser I entered 192.168.11.12:8998
Went to settings, and changed the station type to: Fine Offset with Solar Sensors.
After that, nothing happened. Waited, restarted, waited quite long, nothing happened.
Something wrong with communication?

Then I decided to change the station type to: Fine Offset. (without Solar). Now –after a restart- everything seems to work! (except for solar data of course).

Bugs found / not yet tested:
- Solar data (obvious, due to the station type selection)
- The Records page. I started with a clean setup. However, some data refers to May 2015. (Highest min, Lowest max, High daily temp range, Low daily temp range; all Rainfall data)
- FTP to my website, because I did not active it yet

Of course there might be more problems, these are just my first impressions.

Conclusions so far: For a beta (alpha?) it works like a charm. Very nice. Easy install, even on a RPI.

[steve]

Solar data (obvious, due to the station type selection)

If you upload the MXdiags file from after the restart having set the station type originally, I'll take a look.

The Records page. I started with a clean setup. However, some data refers to May 2015. (Highest min, Lowest max, High daily temp range, Low daily temp range; all Rainfall data)

It sounds like you have US settings.

[henkg]

1. If you upload the MXdiags file from after the restart having set the station type originally, I'll take a look.
2. It sounds like you have US settings.
1. See zip attachment (I zipped all)
2. I do not understand. Settings in RPI: en.GB UTF8; in Windows (with IE11): d-M-jjjj / U:mm

About issue 1: nice to have it solved, about issue2: I can live with it for a (long) time.

Anyway, CMX is running now! So (as I wrote earlier) I will leave the Laphroaig bottle closed, and have a dram of Highland Park, the closest I can get to Sanday

[steve]

Thanks. I've found the bug with the Fine Offset solar setting, fixed in the next build. Note that by using the non-solar setting, you'll get garbage data at start up from the logger.

Regarding the date problem: When someone says they have data for May and it's the 5th day of some other month, the usual reason is that something is interpreting US dates in a non-US way (or vice versa) but your settings look OK. I've just realised that the first four of the items you've mentioned don't get set up until the end of the first day, so there may be some funny with the way something interprets 'null' dates, and it may well correct itself tomorrow.

[henkg]

I've just realised that the first four of the items you've mentioned don't get set up until the end of the first day, so there may be some funny with the way something interprets 'null' dates, and it may well correct itself tomorrow.

Thanks, I will let you know tomorrow.

[henkg]

Today I deleted 3001 completely (data included), and installed 3002.
Now Fine Offset with Solar works!

[steve]

OK - thanks.