Extra Sensors Build 1000

geoffp · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 7:57 am

I have just downloaded build 1000 and set up my extra sensors to my WMR200 base station, they are being rotated on the "Solar" section, great, just one question I have, I have set up the sensor names in the program but on the display they are still showing as "Extra sensor 1, 2 or 3" can the actual names that I have given these sensors show on the display?

steve · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:02 am

Those are presumably the old WMR928 extra sensor names on the display settings that you're changing? The 'new' method for configuring strings in Cumulus is via a strings.ini file, so I've used that for the WMR200 captions. If you look at the samplestrings.ini file in your Cumulus folder, you'll see the new items that aren't mentioned yet in the wiki, and it should hopefully be obvious what you need to do.

geoffp · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:20 am

By god Steve you now have me worried, at 70 years old and computer illiterate I would not know what to look for, probably end up doing more damage than good,

so maybe I will let things stay as they are

steve · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:27 am

Copy the file samplestrings.ini in your Cumulus folder to a file called strings.ini (in the same folder). Open strings.ini in a text editor, and look for this section at the end of the file:

[ExtraSensorCaptions]
Solar=Solar
ExtraChannel2=Extra Channel 2
ExtraChannel3=Extra Channel 3
ExtraChannel4=Extra Channel 4
ExtraChannel5=Extra Channel 5
ExtraChannel6=Extra Channel 6
ExtraChannel7=Extra Channel 7
ExtraChannel8=Extra Channel 8
ExtraChannel9=Extra Channel 9
ExtraChannel10=Extra Channel 10

Change the captions on the right hand side as required, e.g:

[ExtraSensorCaptions]
Solar=Solar
ExtraChannel2=Kitchen
ExtraChannel3=Greenhouse
ExtraChannel4=Extra Channel 4
ExtraChannel5=Extra Channel 5
ExtraChannel6=Extra Channel 6
ExtraChannel7=Extra Channel 7
ExtraChannel8=Extra Channel 8
ExtraChannel9=Extra Channel 9
ExtraChannel10=Extra Channel 10

Save the changes and restart Cumulus.

geoffp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:49 am

Morning Steve,

I am still trying to sort this out, I have found the "samplestrings.ini" file but I cannot find the "strings.ini" I see a cumulus.ini file but that is all.

Told you I was an old age thicko

Gordon-Loomberah · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:46 am

geoffp wrote:

I have found the "samplestrings.ini" file but I cannot find the "strings.ini"

Hi Geoff, just copy the samplestrings.ini file, then paste it back into the same directory, which will probably then be called something like copy samplestrings.ini in XP from memory. Rename that file to strings.ini ... thats the file you need to edit

geoffp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:05 am

Hi,

Many thanks for your advice, now works well, all labelled up, thats the problem when you start on something new one has to rely on others for a while if like me you have just learnt to switch on a pc

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Thanks again,

steve · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:08 am

There are unfortunately a number of facilities in Cumulus that require a bit of poking around 'under the bonnet'. It's really a trade-off between providing new facilities and spending a lot of time doing nice interfaces to make them easy to use.

geoffp · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:42 am

Thanks Steve, I am sure that I will get the hang of it one day :bash:

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