New

• Adds translations for the lightning fields on the Extra Sensors page

• A new web tag to provide the WBGT exposure level 1-5 <#WBGTlevel>, the tag takes an optional parameter cat=N (where N = 0 to 3) - invalid cat=N returns 0

  • The "cat" parameter specifies which category scale to use for the exposure level (see below), it defaults to "cat=0"
  • Categories 1-3 correspond to the US National Weather Service
  • Category 0 is user defined. The user defined range must be specified in Celsius
  • Category 0 default values are based on ACGIH TLV action limits for an unacclimatized person

  Level	Cat 0 (°C)	Cat 1 (°F)	Cat 2 (°F)	Cat 3 (°F)	Threat Level	Flag
  1	< 25.0	< 76.1	< 79.8	< 82.0	Low	White
  2	25.0	76.1	79.8	82.0	Moderate	Green
  3	28.0	81.0	84.6	87.0	High	Yellow
  4	30.0	84.2	87.7	90.0	Very High	Red
  5	>= 32.5	>= 86.2	>= 89.8	>= 92.0	Extreme	Black

• Adds 'Rain Since Midnight' to 'Today's Rain Editor'

Changed

• The daily Cumulus upgrade check now only issues a warning message when the alarm is triggered rather than every time the check is performed and a new version is found
• The Cumulus forecast now uses the average wind direction for the last hour rather than the last 10 minutes
• The Cumulus calculated sea level pressure now uses the average temperature for the last 12 hours:

   (10_min_average_12h_ago + current_10_min_average) / 2
  

• Comments are now allowed in JSON Station input JSON
• Improved some error logging messages in upload.php

Fixed

• Soil moisture units now set per sensor per station
• Davis Cloud Station saving soil temperature values as soil moisture!
• Fix occasional "System.objectDisposedException" during real-time FTP operations
• Re-fix the <#daylength> and <#Tagdaylightlength> tag outputs when the value is 24 hours
• Yesterdays high BGT/WBGT values not being written to the yesterday.ini
• Fix <#WbgtH> <#TWbgtH> web tags not actually being implemented!
• PM 10 data not showing on the Dashboard charts when data is ingested via the JSON station
• Fix error in Ecowitt HTTP station parsing firmware version for OEM stations that do not send the data
• Fix error message if the PHP secret is left blank. A new GUID value is now correctly applied

Package Updates

• FluentFTP
• MailKit
• Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents
• MQTTnet
• MySqlConnector
• NLog
• NLog.Extension.Logging
• SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3
• System.CodeDom
• System.IO.Ports
• System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController

New

• Add web tag for the Cumulus dashboard/web socket port - <#CumulusPort>
• Adds a new station option for Cumulus calculates WBGT
  
  You can use this if say you have a BGT value from your extra sensors, but want to use the outdoor temperature/humidity from your main station

Changed

• The dashboard web socket connections are now protocol independent
• Dashboard BGT/WBGT values moved from the Extra Sensors page to the Now page

Fixed

• The new web tag <#EcowittRssi> that currently supports the Ecowitt HTTP API station
• Error decoding Windy error responses
• Fix inconsistent error responses from wl.com causing an exception
• Fix reversion error in FTP Watchdog where the test file was being created in the root FTP folder
• The station forecast string being blanked periodically
• Fix system uptime comparison against the Cumulus Max system uptime for start-up delay
• Fix storing Davis WLL soil moisture tx ids in place of leaf wetness ids in Cumulus.ini

New

• Adds a new web tag <#SensorRssi> that currently supports the Ecowitt HTTP API station. It lists the RSSI value for each sensor - if available
  • Like the <#EcowittReception> web tag it supports a format=xxx parameter which affects the output, valid values are "text" or "json". The default is a text string

Changed

• Softer start to Cumulus calculates average wind speed when number of samples < 10

Fixed

• Ecowitt HTTP API station reception stats, WH40 was being reported as WH25
• Fix BGT/WBGT today/yesterday web tags
• Non-present WBGT values being written to the dayfile as -999
• Race condition in RealTimeFtpWatchDog and a System.ObjectDisposed Exception after the first disconnect/reconnect
• Fixes Davis VP2/Vue stations not starting and hanging MX if either: Use data logger = disabled, or Today.ini missing (e.g. first clean run of MX)
• JSON station set soil moisture units per sensor as received units

Package Updates

• Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents
• NLog
• NLog.Extensions.Logging
• SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3
• System.CodeDom
• System.IO.Ports
• System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController

New

• Add Locale Strings for the dashboard Today/Yesterday & Records pages
  • The same strings are applied to many chart data series names

Changed

• Add Ecowitt HTTP API Station to <#EcowittReception> web tag

Fixed

• Spurious "y_temp" after Humidex values in charts tooltips
• Spelling errors of "minimum" in three historic temperature data series
• Updating MySQL when editing monthly log file entries
• Main station not starting correctly when using Ecowitt Cloud station for Extra Sensors
• Add missing rollover processing for BGT/WBGT high values
• Add BGT/WBGT to all time record detection
• Add new web tags for BGT/WBGT all-time record set
  
  <#HighBgtRecordSet> <#HighWbgtRecordSet>
• Fix web tags <#SoilEc6> and <#SoilEc15> returning soil moisture values
• Ecowitt Soil EC values not being read from SD card files during catch-up
• Fix web tags <#AirQuality10Idx[1-4]> returning the PM2.5 Index
• Occasional - ERROR Minimum data set of pressure, temperature, and wind is not available - at startup of Ecowitt HTTP API station
• Fix the available languages detection picking up files in /locales/dashboard without a .json suffix
• Failed MySQL commands with embedded control characters failing to display on the Purge MySQL page

New

• Add Locale Strings for the dashboard Today/Yesterday & Records pages
  • The same strings are applied to many chart data series names

Fixed

• Spurious "y_temp" after Humidex values in charts tooltips
• Spelling errors of "minimum" in three historic temperature data series
• Updating MySQL when editing monthly log file entries
• Main station not starting correctly when using Ecowitt Cloud station for Extra Sensors
• Add missing rollover processing for BGT/WBGT high values
• Add BGT/WBGT to all time record detection
• Add new web tags for BGT/WBGT all-time record set
  <#HighBgtRecordSet> <#HighWbgtRecordSet>
• Fix web tags <#SoilEc6> and <#SoilEc15> returning soil moisture values
• Ecowitt Soil EC values not being read from SD card files during catch-up
• Fix web tags <#AirQuality10Idx[1-4]> returning the PM2.5 Index

New

• High records added for BGT and WBGT values
  • Updated dashboard records displays
  • Updated records editors
  • Add to Locale Strings and Display Options
  • Data file editors amended
  • Day file now has four extra fields to store these values and their times
  • MySQL update dayfile table for the new BGT and WBGT high values and times columns

   HighBgt decimal(5,1)
   THighBgt varchar(5)
   HighWbgt decimal (5,1)
   THighWbgt varchar(5)
  

  • File header files updated
  • Dashboard and default web site Historic charts updated
  • New web tags
    
    <#BgtTH> <#TBgtTH>
<#BgtYH> <#TBgtYH>
<#BgtH> <#TBgtH>
<#MonthBgtH> <#MonthBgtHT> <#MonthBgtHD>
<#YearBgtH> <#YearBgtHT>
<#ByMonthBgtH> <#ByMonthBgtHT>
  
  `<#WbgtTH> <#TWbgtTH>` `<#WbgtYH> <#TWbgtYH>` `<#WbgtH> <#TWbgtH>` `<#MonthWbgtH> <#MonthWbgtHT> <#MonthWbgtHD>` `<#YearWbgtH> <#YearWbgtHT>` `<#ByMonthWbgtH> <#ByMonthWbgtHT>`
• Adds support for Soil Electrical Conductivity to Ecowitt Local HTTP API station, Ecowitt.net cloud station, and Ecowitt HTTP Station
  • Also supported on the following Extra Sensor stations: Ecowitt Cloud and Ecowitt HTTP Station
  • Sixteen new web tags
    <#SoilEC[1-16]>
  • Values 1-16 appended to the extra log file
  • Extra log file header updated
  • Add to Locale Strings and Display Options
  • New graph data file - soilecdata.json
  • Added to Dashboard Recent, Select-a-Period and Recent Select-a-Chart charts
  • Added to default web site recent charts
• Adds support for the WS3900/WN1800 console built-in CO₂ readings to the Ecowitt HTTP Station

Changed

• The path setting for the MXdiags folder has been moved to Program Setting > Path Options, and stored in the Cumulus.ini file so it will persist across upgrades
• New version of CreateMissing (v3.1.0) to add BGT/WBGT support
• Updated versions of ImportCumulusFile.php and ImportCumulusFile.py
• Additions to the Interval Data Viewer
  • Extra Temperature 11-16
  • Extra Humidity 11-16
  • Extra Dew Point 11-16
  • Air Quality PM10 values
  • Laser Distance 1-4
  • Soil EC 1-16
  • Current Snowfall in 24 hours value
• FTP logging. To match the main MXdiags log files, the latest Realtime and Interval logs are now always called ftp-realtime.log and ftp-interval.log. Rolled over logs will have a date/time appended

Fixed

• Issue with upload.php that allowed incrementally appended JSON files to grow without trimming old data
• Fix the standard web file websitedata.json being created in the root folder with a filename prefix of "web". Missed in v5.0.1
• Forecast issues introduced in v5.0.1:
  • Davis station no longer storing the station forecast when primary source is Cumulus or forecast.txt
  • Cumulus forecast and forecast number not being stored if the forecast source was other than Cumulus
  • Forecast string could be uninitialised if the associated web tags were call at start-up and before MX had processed the first forecast event
• Snow hour not saving in Station Settings
• JSON Station MQTT connection reconfigured
  • The on start-up the station now attempts to make the server connection indefinitely
  • Refactored the reconnection on connection loss for better execution and logging
• JSON Station add missing handling of "airquality" PM 10 values
• JSON Station fix error in BGT temperature if no "temperature" object in message
• Fix default web site Humidity Trends charts error
• Fix Simulator crash during write of monthly log file in initial day reset on catch-up
• Missing Air Quality block from the dashboard Extra Sensors page
• Extra Sensors using Ecowitt Cloud Station was not updating Solar & UV-I values
• Fixes multiple web cam URL support
  • Adds the camera parameter to the <#webcam> and <#webcamurl> web tags, if omitted it defaults to "1" the fist defined camera
  • Eg <#webcamurl camera=2>
• Davis Cloud station error on decoding VP2/Vue originated current data, it also adds the Davis forecast decoding to this model
• Enabling a Purple Air AQ sensor now automatically enables the extra sensor use AQ feature
• Fix monthly log editor MySQL updates
• Fix exception handling Davis v2 API error responses
• Davis WLL stations now check the subscription level before fetching health data
• Locally created snow24hdata.json files were missnamed snow24data.json

New

• Adds support for supply external forecast text via a file forecast.txt in the root folder
• Adds a new web tag <#IsDST> which indicates if the current date/time is in daylight saving time (=1) or not (=0)

Changed

• Some third-party uploads switched from HTTP to HTTPS - AWEKAS, PWS, WindGuru
• The charts in the dashboard and default web site now display tooltip numbers in the station locale format

Fixed

• Davis WLL Soil/Leaf transmitter exception when receive status = null
• Davis weatherlink.com API fix null wind direction in current data
• Fix numerous issues with the 9am daily rollover when using the 'use 10am in DST' option
• Limit Windy station type field to 100 characters for v2 API
• Fix Windy uploads for locales that do not use colon time separators
• Fix <#RecentPressure> web tag - not using UnixTime
• Fix various web tags (eg <#YearTempAvg>) erroring when no dayfile entries exist to the period requested
• Chart.js charts not plotting if the Cumulus is running under the Invariant Culture locale - now defaults to en-US for the charts
• Local copies of chart data and realtimegauges.txt files not saving in correct location - going into application root folder with a prefix of "web" to the filename
• Fix web tag <#ByMonthWindH> which was using the gust decimals setting

First release based on .NET 10

Extensive changes, please read the CHANGELOG.md

• Crash caused by EcowittMacAddress=null in Cumulus.ini
• Add additional error handling for dates date/times with the min val 0001-01-01
• Enable Ecowitt SD card file content reading retries when zero length files are returned

New

• Adds support for Third Party WOW-BE reboot uploads

Changed

• If you have more than one Ecowitt web camera, the web tags <#EcowittCameraUrl> and <#EcowittVideoUrl> now accept a parameter of mac=1A:2B:3C:4D:5E:6F (eg. <#EcowittCameraUrl mac=3C:8A:1F:B3:2B:A2>) to return the matching camera from your account.
  
  If omitted the parameter defaults to the first (or only camera) found on your account
• HTTP Files now accepts the URL values <ecowittcameraurl1> to <ecowittcameraurl8> in addition to the original <ecowittcameraurl> which downloads the first camera image. <ecowittcameraurl> and <ecowittcameraurl1> are equivalent

Fixed

• MQTT connection failures with "Invalid protocol"
• Fix the "navigator" not working correctly on the wind direction charts in the dashboard and default web site
• Ecowitt SD card catch-up re-coded to improve reliability on some systems
• MySQL settings not allowing you to create/update the tables on initial setup
• Tweaks to the Dashboard and default web site
• Fix forum URL being reset to default on Cumulus restarts. The fix requires you to resave the config once after installing this update
• The station TimeZone being reset to default on Cumulus restarts
• MySQL connection issues if you only upload the dayfile once a day and no other uploads
• Issue where Cumulus.ini says it needs to be rewritten at each start-up
• Missing navigation images at the bottom on the Extra Web Files settings page