Solar Input string was not in a correct format

philpugh · Post by **philpugh** » Thu 18 May 2023 10:08 am

Hans,

I'm getting this error during the website generation. cumulusutils is complaining about the format of field 18 (SolarRad) in May23log.txt.

What appears to be happening is that I recently entered a calibration setting for the solar sensor in the Ecowitt WS68 by introducing a multiplier of 0.8. This leads to a calculated value having an occasional decimal point and I suspect this is what is causing the issue. However I don't see a setting in CumulusMX to allow the number of decimal points to be used - like you can with most of the other values (including UVI !).

Is there a way to get around this pls?

Phil

SORRY forgot to add using 6.18.2

mcrossley · Post by **mcrossley** » Thu 18 May 2023 11:40 am

Bug in MX, it is always supposed to be an integer value in the log.

philpugh · Post by **philpugh** » Thu 18 May 2023 12:38 pm

Thanks Mark,

I'll remove the multiplier until fixed.

Phil

HansR · Post by **HansR** » Thu 18 May 2023 2:26 pm

Another (intermediate) solution is to calibrate using the Ecowitt gateway.
And btw: why is there no moon on your site?

philpugh · Post by **philpugh** » Mon 22 May 2023 4:23 pm

Good question Hans - I hadn't really noticed. I upgraded to 6.18.2 revently - I'll check the cumulusutils.ini setting!

Phil

philpugh · Post by **philpugh** » Mon 22 May 2023 4:37 pm

The MoonImageLocation tag was blank - infact since the update to 6.18.2 all three stations have had this tag reset !?

I will keep an eye on it!

Good suggestion to use the Ecowitt Gateway sw to do the 'calibration'

Phil

HansR · Post by **HansR** » Mon 22 May 2023 4:39 pm

If you use the CMX moon image you will have to set the new parameters UseCMXMoonImage and MoonImageLocation.
Definitely if you use PHP upload.

HansR · Post by **HansR** » Mon 22 May 2023 4:41 pm

philpugh wrote: ↑Mon 22 May 2023 4:37 pm The MoonImageLocation tag was blank - infact since the update to 6.18.2 all three stations have had this tag reset !?

I will keep an eye on it!

Good suggestion to use the Ecowitt Gateway sw to do the 'calibration'

Phil

The tag was not reset, it was new

(because of an issue with PHP upload)

philpugh · Post by **philpugh** » Tue 23 May 2023 9:17 pm

Oh!

I missed that in the notes - I don't use PHP upload as my webserver is on same RPi as my CMX stations.

Phil

HansR · Post by **HansR** » Wed 24 May 2023 4:54 am

philpugh wrote: ↑Tue 23 May 2023 9:17 pm Oh!

I missed that in the notes - I don't use PHP upload as my webserver is on same RPi as my CMX stations.

@Phil: See notes for v6.18.1
Although the problem arose with PHP upload, I made the change generic so to avoid confusion with others.
Haha... that worked out well

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