The [Wind} section stores the highest wind speed and highest gust, it holds the sum of wind speeds as wind run, and details for the dominant wind.The section stores current date and time.Remember Cumulus needs to read and update today.ini throughout the day, so do not attempt to edit it while Cumulus is running, as that could conflict with an edit by Cumulus.Īs Cumulus is developed it is adding further sections, but the legacy Cumulus (by 1.9.4) used the following: Do not however introduce any punctuation nor change the format of any parameter line. For real (not integer) numbers, the decimal part cannot be easily converted between base 10 (used for display) and the base 2 (used internally by the Cumulus code), and therefore you may see more decimal places than you expect.įor today.ini, it is important to be aware that MX can read a file created by Cumulus 1 (MX can read the time format in the value for Timestamp= parameter whether it is in Cumulus 1 or MX format), but Cumulus 1 cannot read a file that has been updated by MX.įor readability you can insert blank lines into files today.ini and yesterday.ini, Cumulus will not mind. The attribute names are defined by Cumulus, but can appear in any order, the values are stored in the units selected by the Cumulus user. Under each section name, there is a list of parameters attribute=value, with one parameter per line. The sections (after the first ) can be in any order, Cumulus will maintain whatever order the sections are currently in. ini files use a common format as described at Category:Ini_Files, where some differences between the legacy Cumulus and MX are noted.Įssentially, this format is that square brackets surround section names. Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, may relocate some files, as explained at FAQ on location of data log files.Īll. The files today.ini and yesterday.ini are located in the 'Data' sub-folder of the path where your cumulus.exe (or CumulusMX.exe) is installed. In Cumulus 2 and 3(MX) these files hold figures that appear on the today/yesterday page of the local interface you can view. The files today.ini and yesterday.ini are used by Cumulus to store some counts, plus the Highs and Lows (and their timestamps) for key parameters as reached on each of the two days, for Cumulus 1 these files are where the figures that appear on the main screen are stored. 6.3 Changes to this file at particular releases.6.1.2 Editing today.ini or yesterday.ini outside Cumulus.6.1.1 Editing rainfall in today.ini within Cumulus.5.1 Cross-references for explanations of key parameters.

5 Composite Example of 'today.ini' file.3 Differences between Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX.

Where are ini files stored