Sandaysoft

Hello everyone,

New member just signed up after getting a weather station for Christmas - first thing I did was switch to Cumulus following some internet searches

I set the station up on Boxing day and its all been working fine. As I wanted to start the data collection from the new year, last night I uninstalled Cumulus, reinstalled it from scratch, copied over my cumulus.ini settings from the previous install, and cleared the memory on the controller at 00:01.

This evening when I booted up the PC, I ran Cumulus for the first time today, expecting it to read all the data in from the first reading the controller took sometime after midnight this morning. However, it appears to not be working as I expected - the data it has read in is the current data from when I first ran it today. I thought I'd messed something up when I reset it, so I quit Cumulus and loaded EasyWeather. The last time I loaded EW was sometime yesterday, before I reset the memory. I went to History in EW and set the time to 00:00:00 for today, and sure enough it has read the data from the station (first reading at 00:27), so its obviously working.

I am a little confused as to why Cumulus hasn't read the data for the past 20 hours (at least as far as I can tell it hasn't, the graphs don't show any data going back and the record low and highs don't match those I can see in the EW history, they just reflect the readings since I first started Cumulus earlier tonight).

I have tried a few things (reinstalling again, and setting the today.ini to a date in the past as recommended in one of the forum posts), but I still don't seem to be able to get it to read any historical data.

As a suggestion for a future release, would it be possible for Cumulus to say how many records it has read in from the station when it reads in the history - would be nice to know

Any advice welcome, it might be me missunderstanding how things work.


Edit - updated subject to reflect the topic a little better

Hi,

It deliberately doesn't try to download data from before the first time it runs. This is documented somewhere (but I can't remember where, so I'll forgive you )

This was to avoid problems for people upgrading from versions before I added support for the logger. You can, however, force it to read the data by editing the timestamp in the today.ini file. Note that you will probably want to start with no data files if you do this, as otherwise you are likely to get entries out of order.

It would be fairly easy to show how many history records were read - where do you think would be the best place to display this?

Steve

Ahh, ok that makes sense



I am sure when I tried this it didn't work, but I just tried it again, and it did Not sure what I did differently, but that has solved the problem - thank you!



Two places seem obvious - either the download progress window that pops up when reading the data, but as that closes immediately it wouldn't be much use unless it either a) didn't close automatically anymore, or b) you were looking at it at the time it finished The other would be in the status bar next to (before it?) the "Last data read at..." part.

Thank you for your help, and also the software, its really easy to use and very clear and concise. A donation should be on its way shortly!

Best Regards,
Dave Fisher

I found this post and discovered that I have a parallel existence! I followed the above hints and have now imported my historical data. I have just one remaining question - Is it possible to modify the <#recordsbegandate> so that the records.htm page doesn't tell obvious lies?

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Yes, the all-time records editor lets you set the start date.

Steve