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  1. On 1/12/2021 at 11:52 AM, The Jester said:

    I've never had a 'challenge' finding replacements, but then maybe the local hardware chain (McLendon's) is just that good.

    +1.  In fact, I keep a supply of o-rings for bisons that have a slightly larger O.D. then normal.  The ones that come with most bisons are too fragile, so a little fatter one, even if it sticks out from the bison just a little, is a good investment.  You can get them from more durable rubber than the originals, and being a bit fatter, they don't cut as easy.

    I get them at my local Ace, though there are a myriad of cheaper places.  I just don't buy enough of them to investigate the options.

     

  2. Sounds as though I need to take a more careful look at the log page next time, though.  Are you saying that once I'm on the log page, there's facility for opening a new tab for the cache page from there?

     

  3. I right clicked on the cache name in the 'new' drafts page, thinking it would operate as it did on the old version and bring up the cache page in a separate tab, and it took me instead to the logging screen for the draft, NOT the cache page.  Tried clicking on every millimeter of the 'new' drafts page, and found no mouse field for cache page link.

     

  4. As much as I liked GC Little Helper, and have used it some years ago, I found that gc.com was capable of breaking it with (often unhelpful) web site changes faster than anyone at GCLH could keep up with it.

    In any case, it's such a basic thing from the previous drafts page that I'd like to see it reinstated.  How tough could it be to allow the cache names in the lists to be, as they once were, cache links instead of yet more click space devoted to moving on to the log page?

     

     

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  5. On 1/11/2021 at 12:46 PM, paklein58 said:

    I recently moved from Maryland to Colorado.

    Hope you enjoy Estes, and hope you're a recent arrival and didn't go through our scary early Fall excitement up there.  There was some real concern about whether Estes was going to continue to exist there for a bit while East Troublesome was raging.

     

     

  6. I don't have any drafts to test with at the moment, but would swear I'd tried that, too.

    Will check again next run.

    Would still prefer that I have it before starting the log, though.

    NEITHER system display the GC code anywhere on the list of drafts.  That's something I'd like to see added in any case.  I know that many people cache by 'cache name', but we cache by 'gc code' (our run lists are built with them as they're a LOT shorter on the page), and having it displayed wherever possible is always helpful.

     

     

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  7. Like all of the other useful pages that are being set aside, one by one, I'm worried that there's probably an expiration date on the old Drafts page as well.

     

    I'm sure it's been brought up already, but a Drafts page that has no facility for being able to jump briefly to the cache page itself is a real PITA.  Too often, I will Right Click on the cache name, then 'Open Link in New Tab' to refresh my memory of the cache page before starting my actual log.   I can find absolutely no way to accomplish this simple task from the new page.  Clicking on the cache name sends you to the log entry now, not the cache page.

     

    I wish gc.com would quit sending me to the new dashboard.  Getting tired of the 'opt out'.  Just hope I can keep doing it for a long time.

     

    Typical -- loss of functionality for the 'new and improved' version.

     

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  8. I take it that these symbols are actually images, hosted somewhere?

    If so, what you really want to do is build the needed ones into a single image, and let gc.com host that.  You can do that by picking them out individually with a screen capture program of some sort, and pasting them all together after the fact.

    Please provide a little more information on the symbol source.  It may turn out to be easier than the brute force method I've described.

     

  9. Yes, but they do have apps for Android, iOS and Windows, so that should cover a lot of the potential users.

    Links on the cache page for each of those will be important.

     

    As mustakorppi notes, there are prohibitions in the guidelines in that regard, so you're going to have to work with your reviewer to see if it's going to be permitted.  Note the word 'generally'.

     

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    A cache page that requires one or more of the following will generally not be published:

    • Using memory sticks and similar devices
    • Installing files or executing programs
  10. OK.  First, this is a good sign >> "PC: Windows, Mac OS; Smartphone: iOS, Android"

    This is even better >> "20 Users (1 admin account & 19 user accounts); Support up to 12 simultaneous video streams (10 substreams & 2 mainstreams) "

    I think you have a winner there.   I don't have the supporting documents, but that sounds very much as though it can be fully controlled by a phone or PC, which is exactly what you want.  They seem to have apps for everything.  See the manufacturer's product page here >> https://reolink.com/product/e1-pro/

     

    As far as I can see, there are only a few things you'll want to note in particular.  1) This is an 'indoor' camera.   That will limit where it can be successfully placed for your purposes.  2) It may not have the ability to invert the image 180 degrees (though that remains to be seen - can't see anything about that in the specs).  That means that inverting it to mount it on a ceiling could be problematic unless you don't mind your finders standing on their heads <g> while working on solving your puzzle.  3) And don't forget that you'll need somewhere to plug in the wall wart.  They don't say how much DC power cable they supply.  4) This isn't a PTZ (zoom) camera (wouldn't expect it to be at this really decent price), and while it has a fair pixel count, you'll want to consider how well it images against whatever size object you are targeting at whatever distance. 

     

    Last, and probably most important -- it MAY be that it is necessary to scan a QR code on the camera in order to connect a device to it.  You can resolve this by duplicating the camera's QR code, if that's how they are managing this, and providing it to the user rather than requiring the user to access the physical camera to perform that connection task.

     

    Looks like you could have some fun with this.

     

     

     

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  11. I find that this list is the 'local' stuff (I'm set up for 30 miles)  in the order published (most recent at the top), regardless of when placed, so you can look back just a week if you like into the full list. 

    Fill in your own latitude/longitude and caching name, and preferred radius (all bolded, below) of course.

     

    https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?lat=40.195467&lng=-105.07415&origin=40.195467,-105.07415&radius=30mi&types=2,3,8,5,11,1858,4,9,3773&nfb[0]=ecanderson&f=2&o=2&e=1&sort=PlaceDate&asc=False

     

    I used to think that PlaceDate was either cause for a forward or reverse sort, then I realized that when =False, the placed dates weren't always in the list order, but the list order did seem to be consistent with publishing date.  Once in a while you get a really old one pop up in the middle of a 'current' list that someone forgot to get published.

     

     

     

     

  12. Since hints are managed by a simple ROT-13 substitution algorithm, which can only handle 26 characters, and expects an English alphabet, it comes as no surprise that it would mangle many other languages, including Polish.   That really is 'unfixable'.  However, it should not be a problem for image captioning.  That's something that should be looked into.

     

     

     

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  13. 7 minutes ago, 3isamagic# said:

    Deleted the entire SQL folder, cleared the Geocaching Live data...still showing archived caches.

    I'm able to see that they're archived or disabled through my third-party app.

     

    I'm at wit's end with this silly thing.

     

    I wonder if we have a larger issue with gc.com, then?  What 3rd party app?  Those shouldn't be showing archived caches, either, unless specifically requested by GC code by the user.

     

  14. "we never have downloaded caches to these devices"

     

    We did not suggest that you had.  Please note from prior post:

     

    "Don't know how long you've had your 700, but if one of the first things you didn't do was wipe the preloaded caches that Garmin supplied, that's going to be an ongoing issue for you."

     

    Your Garmin came with a VERY large preload of caches in *.gzz format.

     

    If there is no Garmin subfolder, you have no system at all, no maps, and no caches.

    If there is no GPX or GZZ folder under that Garmin folder, you have no caches on your device.

    This sort of file structure (apart from the addition of GZZ) has been in use since the Garmin Colorado was released.

    We know that this isn't the case, so ...

    Please look again.

     

     

  15. 10 hours ago, 3isamagic# said:

    I'm running into a problem because my Oregon 700 is displaying archived caches in the list of caches that are available on Geocaching Live. After a few odd DNF's, we began to do some research and determined on geocaching.com that those caches were actually archived.  At this point, the only way we can play is to load a cache, then go over the logs and see if they've not been found in forever, indicating they've been muggled or whatever, which is of course extremely frustrating.  Does anyone have any ideas?  

    This may not be an issue with GCLive.  It may be that you have a set of caches already loaded on the device that includes dead caches.  Don't know how long you've had your 700, but if one of the first things you didn't do was wipe the preloaded caches that Garmin supplied, that's going to be an ongoing issue for you.

    Delete all of the files from within the Garmin/GPX and Garmin/GZZ folders on your device and start fresh.

     

  16. 7 hours ago, Moun10Bike said:

    Perhaps apps are to blame, but I think low numbers are more indicative of a general tendency for people to try something and move on.

     

     

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    Precisely.  When there's no economic entry barrier at all, the odds of the 'try something and move on' go up very rapidly.  The apps allow for this in a way that didn't used to be possible.

     

    All of which would be completely irrelevant, apart from an interest in statistics, except for the CO whose cache is now also subject to that mentality.

     

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