You are certainly entitled to your opinion but you should follow some decorum and have some respect for the forum, its users, the developers that work hard on software, everyone here that is offering you help. You could choose your words more tactfully and simply state that Cumulus MX does not seem like it will fit your needs but there is no need to disparage the hard work of many.
My opinion is that you are misinformed. Cumulus MX does run standalone. It just has the flexibility to run and be accessible via multiple computers. There are many applications that run in this manner. There are a few very popular media player applications that run the same way for example Plex Media Server, where the interface is web based. Today people use more than one computer and they have mobile devices (phones, tablets) and they want their data accessible from everywhere. Gone are the times of running local email programs that did POP3 email as everyone has migrated to web based email applications so that their email is accessible everywhere. There are countless other examples.
- You downloaded Cumulus MX.
- You started the application that started the web engine
- The only thing left for you to have done is to open the web browser and type in http://localhost:8998 and you would have been greeted with a nice beautiful interface and a setup wizard.
If you want help you have to take advice and give things a try. People are dedicating their free time to reading your posts and helping you out, the least you could do is put in a little effort.
I'd like to point out to you that you are in the Cumulus forum. One of the persons you are talking to is the software developer of the application and they are very well regarded.
I think you can do better.
Well I have tried Cumulus MX and I do not like it. You as a moderator can think what you want, I am just telling my opinion in a free world.
Days are not gone using POP3 and similar, I use it daily since I know what security means.
A stand alone software for a weather station when you collect data and want to store it safe on a computer is VITAL. Running it in a web based window = threats of stolen data etc.
In a computer I can set the security options and block external users from accessing. But I will not go into that here since that is another topic.
The issue here is false readings from my weather station. Stop forcing someone to like Cumulus MX that does not like it, that is not the future. Today you have apps for mobile devices, if you need to see actual weather in a phone if you cannot see it "live". But for storgae and safety of logging a computer is needed, otherwise data just passes thriough layers and disapears.
A data file is stored on my computer/server or where ever I want it, but for that a software is needed and not a web based setup.
For those that like MX version, use it, I will never like it since I do not want to have this unstable data collection of weather data.
As I told before I will not comment the MX version anymore, it is way too basic for my needs.
Back to the real issue:
Does anyone have any experience of a weather station, like mine, WS 3083 of Aercus instruments, that gets very wrong data such as fictious rain meter as well as made up temperatures and wind data?
Or are these weather stations just too basic themselves?
If anyone knows a weahetr station that is connected with wires I would prefer that and am open for any suggestions. As long as it does contain a logger that stores weather data and does not make up values that the weather station wants to report instead of real values?
