Version 5.2.0 - Build 5026

New

• New web tags for average annual values
  • <#AllYearsTempAvg> <#AllYearsRainfallAvg> <#AllYearsWindRunAvg> <#AllYearsSunshineAvg>** <#AllYearsTotalETAvg> <#AllYearsTotalChillHoursAvg>
<#AllYearsDryDaysAvg> <#AllYearsWetDaysAvg>
    
    ** Note: <#AllYearsSunshineAvg> assumes you have had sunshine hours being recorded for your whole history. If this is not the case add a parameter to specify the first FULL YEAR of your history that contains solar data startyear=YYYY
  • Accept a parameter of mindays=nnn, which defines the minimum number of days in a year for it to be included in the averaging. This defaults to 360 days
  • Some diagnostics that give an indication how the averages were arrived at can be displayed by adding the web tag parameter diags
• New web tag for solar noon time <#solarnoon>
• New web tag for current absolute humidity <#AbsHum> which returns the total water content in g/m³
• New simple reports of various weather variables summarised by month and year from your day file.
  • Accessed from Reports -> Simple Reports
  • They default to HTML table format, but you have the option of plain text output

Changed

• The Extra Web Files functionality has had an overhaul:
  • The settings page is now an Alpaca form with a changed layout. This means that the available settings change to reflect the capabilities of other settings
  • In addition to real-time/interval/eod periods, you can now perfrom Extra Web File copies/uploads at custom intervals, and perform them at scheduled times
• Web tag parameters which are effectively boolean (accept a "y" or "n" value) can now have the value omitted to default to "y"
  • For example, previously you had to use the parameter rc=y to remove commas, now simply adding the parameter rc has the same effect
  • The old behaviour of the full key=value format will still continue to function
  • The current parameters to use y/n are: rc, tc, tcstr, diags, showdate, dateonly
• Change to how rainfall is handled. CMX now uses a monotonically increasing rainfall counter. This simplifies many things!
• Adds the high rain rate for today to Todays Rain Editor
• Reduced the number of supported runtime environments
• Upload.php has been updated to avoid issues when the brotli package is not available, and compression probing issues
• Moon image updates:
  • If Moon image Copy is enabled, and Upload is Disabled, then the image is now created directly in the copy destination, rather than being created in the /web folder and later copied to the copy destination
  • Updated the base Moon image to a less contrasty version that is better centered on the mean libration position
  • Added a new option to create the Moon image correctly orientated to your local horizon. If this option is enabled, then the Moon image is updated every 30 minutes rather than hourly
  • Softened the transition of the terminator slightly
• The Dashboard Gauges page now attempts to set the locale to the same language as MX is running

Fixed

• Tempest station not updating the Station and Altimeter pressures during live running
• Ecowitt Soil EC Temperatures not being converted to user units
• The dashboard Extra Sensors page failing to hide the Humidity block when no sensors are enabled
• Fix Cumulus.ini being rewritten at every restart
• Fix calculated wind speed average when the clocks go forward
• Allow for null values in all WLL broadcast fields
• Fix local copy of Moon image if uploads are disabled
• A PHP upload compression test being performed at start-up when uploads are not enabled
• Davis VP2 clock check was still using a 30 secs threshold during normal running