[Release Notes (Adventure Labs) - March 26, 2019]

7 hours ago, Tungstène said:

Now that the labs.geocaching.com website is down I can't see what my past lab caches were. I liked to have look at it and enjoyed remembering these days when I found lab caches...

I can still see our past Lab Cache finds

 

[CITO Calendar doesn't show all CITOs]

It's ancient.

It used to be linked from HERE but that link has been replaced now with the new search

[CITO Calendar doesn't show all CITOs]

CITO Calendar doesn't show all CITOs

https://www.geocaching.com/cito/calendar.aspx

For example, https://coord.info/GC834DT is on the 16th of March, doesn't show on the CITO calendar page but does show on the Event Calendar page

[Geocaching Event Calendar page sort is out of order]

The Event Calender page is virtually unusable anyway as there are far too many events listed.
I created this Tamper Monkey script which I have been using for a while which allows me to filter out countries/states I'm not interested in
It would be handy if this sort of thing could be added to the website officially.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/19388-gc-event-calendar-filter
 

[United States missing from countries in PQ config]

It's not possible to have notifications set up for the whole world, so instead, I have a weekly PQ listing all caches of one particular type published in the previous month
I have a PQ to alert me of any GPS Adventures  and I was a bit surprised that the Texas one didn't appear in it.
Further investigation showed that this was because I had the PQ set up with all the countries selected and United States isn't one of them.
If I select States/Provinces instead, countries like Denmark, Slovenia, Israel etc get missed off becasue they are not listed with states/provinces

Obviously this is not a major issue for GPS Adventures but I do actually have a PQ for a different specific cache type and it means that I have to have two overlapping PQs instead

Thanks

 

[How do I do this Javascript in lua in Urwigo?]

I was trying to do bitwise ORs so the player had to talk to three characters before proceeding. Returning to a character a second time would be ignored

 

So, talking to the charaters would OR 1, 2 , 4
Probably a bit excessive for this project so I've used three flags instead now

Thanks

 

[How do I do this Javascript in lua in Urwigo?]

How do I do this Javascript in lua in Urwigo?

Obviously var v will be declared as a global variable.
I can't see how to write a function and pass it parameter n

 

Thanks

 

var v=0;
function checkV(n)
{
v = v | n;
return(v==7);
}

 

[Groundspeak Builder removing code]

I don't think that's it. I've given up and switched to using Urwigo instead.

Thanks anyway

[Groundspeak Builder removing code]

I know that I really ought to just give up with the Groundspeak builder but it's what I'm used to.
I have recently got the builder running on a Windows 10 laptop having only used it on old XP laptops before.

I started making a new cartridge with this sequence of events
 Enter zone, message appears, click OK, second message appears, click OK zone 1 set to not visible or active, zone 2 set to active and visible

Yeah, simple stuff.
However, whenever I close and reopen the cartridge in the builder, the code for the second message onwards gets removed. The whole 'action group' has gone.
I've had all sorts of issues with the builder in the past eg incorrect 'if' nesting which I've been able to work around but never had it dropping chucks of code in this way

Anyone else had this occur?
Should I just give up and use a different builder?

Thanks

[Pocket Queries: Allow event sub types please.]

I never use that search page but it seems like it might suffice as a workaround.

Thanks

[Pocket Queries: Allow event sub types please.]

At the moment Event Cache
includes: Geocaching Block Party, Groundspeak Lost and Found Celebration, Giga-Event Cache, Lost and Found Event Cache, Cache In Trash Out Event, Mega-Event Cache

It would be really handy if  this could be subdivided into sub types or at  least three groups:
eg:
Events
Cache In Trash Out Event
All other event types

Why?
I'd like to run a weekly PQ for Mega and Giga events so I can see when new ones appear.
Notifications aren't suitable for this because the search radius is only about 50 miles whereas a single PQ can search the whole world.

Relying on the Groundspeak  Mega Event  bookmark list isn't ideal because not all Mega events get added to it.

Thanks
 

[Wherigo Has Come to Android!]

Someone on Facebook found it here.

https://www.apkmonk.com/app/menion.android.whereyougo/

It's the same version number that I currently have on my phone

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

Well, I'd made up my mind to print and laminate a Zapcode and fix it at the starting location....

...then I remembered that a Zapcode would probably be classed as a physical stage and it would then fall foul of proximity rules. 

Enthusiasm drifting away....

 

M

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

17 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

Only issue with Zappar is the 250 scan /month limit, free

I can't see where it says this limit.
If the limit is scans of the Zapcode it might be a problem as I can imagine people just playing with it to see what happens.
If it's actual target scans, then the limit won't be a problem because I only anticipate about a dozen finders in total...

M
 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

Looks like it has some issues

Zappar with a 'deeplink' link in the cache page seems the way forward for now

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

15 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

 

Actually as an example, you can put the code on the cache listing for the user to zap before going to the coords.

At gz, even if airplane mode is on, the user could A] re-select the code they already zapped then begin looking for the tracking image and it'll work,

 

The app would suggest that that's possible as it has a menu with 'Recents' but when I select one it just starts scanning for a zapcode again

Testing on Andoid app on Samsung Galaxy S4

I might have to go with Zappar for now as it seems best of a bad bunch closest to what I want

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

Partial success with YouAugment just now after creating a new login
The page loaded and overlay showed but it was very jumpy whereas when I test ROAR for real, the overly 'locked' in place as intended


 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

My first AR attempt is to just go to a noticeboard, scan it and an overlay of final co-ordinates appear. So far I have not achieved this successfully

Metaverse
    Does not seem possible to do what I want

 

HP Reveal (Aurasma)
 Worst one so far - phone app won't find anything
 

ROAR
   This works well but the 200 free scan limit means it's a no-no

 

TaleBlazer
  Have yet to try this

 

Zappar
  Works well but use of marker code makes it unsuitable

The cacher would have to open app , scan marker code then scan target.

It is not even possible to  scan marker at home, close app, arrive at gz, open app and scan target object.

YouAugment
I like this one becasue no app download or scanning of marker code is required

However, I did a test just overlaying text on a calling card and it was fine but when I tried the target image and overlay I have used in the other tests, it just wouldn't load

Any other suggestions?

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

Anyone had any luck with HP Reveal?

I've created the 'Aura', downloaded app to my phone and tried to test it. The app doesn't recognise the trigger image.
I thought that perhaps I had to log in to my account on the phone (I had to do this with ROAR prior to making it public) but the HPReveal app  just keeps erroring

M

[Augmented Reality Caches]

OK, so the ROAR 'free plan' is 200 scans in total just to test the platform.

Back to the drawing-board again

[Augmented Reality Caches]

My ROAR based cache got thrown back not becasue there is anything wrong with using it but just because the reviewer wanted clarification about the 'Free plan' I was using. It says it allows 200 'recognitions' but it's not clear if it's 200 in total or 200 per month.

Out of desperation, I had a quick look at Metaverse again but it just doesn't seem to do what I want.

I don't want characters and questions. Is it possible just to do a simple image overlay with Metaverse?

M

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

 

2 hours ago, Team Microdot said:

 

App installed in readiness

This one is very much a proof of concept.

The next one will be more like this: (possibly) 
 

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

8 hours ago, TheLimeCat said:

For those of you interested, I'm using a simple tool called ROAR.

 

Thanks for finding that!
I've just knocked up a test and it works very well.
It's a pity the app doesn't scan automatically but I think I can live with that for now


M

[Augmented Reality Caches]

On 10/06/2018 at 8:16 AM, mimaef said:

Are they planning on giving the AR caches their own cache type or is the AR in front of it just for testing purposes and ease of deletion later?

 

The AR_ is just for ease of identifying them

 

On 10/06/2018 at 8:16 AM, mimaef said:

I'm very excited for this.

So was I for about 24 hours then I realised there aren't actually any tool-sets available yet which do what I want

I have a container placed and draft cache page but I suspect I will retrieve the container and archive the cache page before long ...

I see absolutely no point in using AR for something which could be done better as a Wherigo.

M
 

 

 

[Augmented Reality Caches]

I had a quick look at MetaVerse and it doesn't seem to do what I want. I don't want characters or questions!

I was trying to do a simple 'extra information appears when phone is pointed at the correct object' style thing.
I did a quick test using YouAugment just overlaying text and it worked fine. When I tried to make a second one it won't load on my phone.

Are there any other options available available which work the same as YouAugment or the GeoWoodstock Lab caches?
For simplicity, I'd rather the end user just have a url rather than having to install an app etc.

Thanks
M