Finding a few basic needles in a mass of haystacks
Posted: Fri 12 Apr 2024 3:19 pm
The amount of information available about Cumulus is quite astonishing, and I congratulate the authors. But to a newby to Cumulus it is somewhat overwhelming.
I have for nearly 20 years used the Davis Vantage Pro 2 to monitor village data but for a variety of reasons am now considering switching to Cumulus. I have set Cumulus up so that is working and displaying data on my PC - a Windows 11 machine. I obviously will need some time looking for information but I could do with some basic information to get going. So three questions to start off with. I was unable to find an answer to these during an initial trawl through the documentation.
1. Is there a tutorial of sorts for total newbys to Cumulus and if so, where?
2. How do I start Cumulus running? Using Start - Cumulus.exe then when the DOS window starts, open a browser page and copy the local host URL to it and access that. Works but not exactly a user friendly instruction to pass on to someone who I need to ask to look at it.
3. How do I setup Cumulus so that data on the Vantage Pro data logger is transferred to Cumulus and then how do I access it? I have setup a serial FTP transfer between the VP and Cumulus which I assume works as Cumulus displays the information I can see on the VP, but what about downloading data in the data logger. Also re historic data in the WLK Vantage files. Can they be converted and added to Cumulus? (Sorry, that's a 4th question!).
I know I need to spend time on the documentation but a few et me started prompts would be appreciated.
I have for nearly 20 years used the Davis Vantage Pro 2 to monitor village data but for a variety of reasons am now considering switching to Cumulus. I have set Cumulus up so that is working and displaying data on my PC - a Windows 11 machine. I obviously will need some time looking for information but I could do with some basic information to get going. So three questions to start off with. I was unable to find an answer to these during an initial trawl through the documentation.
1. Is there a tutorial of sorts for total newbys to Cumulus and if so, where?
2. How do I start Cumulus running? Using Start - Cumulus.exe then when the DOS window starts, open a browser page and copy the local host URL to it and access that. Works but not exactly a user friendly instruction to pass on to someone who I need to ask to look at it.
3. How do I setup Cumulus so that data on the Vantage Pro data logger is transferred to Cumulus and then how do I access it? I have setup a serial FTP transfer between the VP and Cumulus which I assume works as Cumulus displays the information I can see on the VP, but what about downloading data in the data logger. Also re historic data in the WLK Vantage files. Can they be converted and added to Cumulus? (Sorry, that's a 4th question!).
I know I need to spend time on the documentation but a few et me started prompts would be appreciated.