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Kalkendotters

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  1. Dat is prima mogelijk. In principe zou je vrijwel alles aan een (geadopteerde) cache kunnen veranderen.
    Als de 'beleving' van de cache anders wordt (bv andere plaats, opeens een klimcache, etc), dan wordt geadviseerd om een nieuwe cache te maken.

  2. That is because your old Rhino did not have the concept of geocaches. It only saved waypoints, and a waypoint can have a different picture attached to it. What you want is not directly possible on a standalone GPS.

     

    To mark your own caches, you have to save them as waypoints or as POI's on your GPS. However, you will then loose the extra info that is attached to a geocache (text, hints, extra waypoints)

    When you add a seperate waypoint on the GPS it is just that: a waypoint. It can have a seperate icon and a small description, but is is in no way a geocache.

  3. What editor are you using to look at the geocache_visits.txt  ?

    The 'problem' is that the file is in double-byte format; which means that every ascii-code is followed by a x0 character. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBCS )

    So e.g. GC1234 is coded in the file as: 47 00 43 00 31 00 32 00 33 00 34 00

    It looks like your editor/viewer thinks the x00 character is the end of text so only shows the first character.

    Solution: use another editor to look at the file; or just upload it to geocaching.com/drafts

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  4. 1 hour ago, kunarion said:

    If themes add and remove options to match each theme, that would be pretty cool.  Or is the idea more of a way to filter ALs?

    I am afraid the 'themes' are just 'attributes' Looking in the builder for ad-labs, you just select them like an 'attribute' on a normal geocache.

    No fancy theming with different backgrounds, fonttypes, images,...

    (Real theming would be difficult when you are allowed to select multiple themes, whichbackground/color/font would take precedence)

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  5. 15 hours ago, kayak hunter said:

    is there a way around this issue? 

    Yes, but it is very cumbersome.

    Load the app (at home) and select the AL you want to do. It will download the texts and waypoints. Then you can go to the wps and see the questions. You can not answer them in the field, but the app will remember that you visited the location. So go to a place with wifi to get a data connection, and there you can 'visit' the wps again and answer the questions.

    This is of course a giant pain in the behind when you have a sequential AL, because you only get the next wp after you give the answer; so that means a lot of travel between the wifi and the wps.

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  6. What you want is not (currently) possible.

    GPS location is a one way street. The GPS satelites only send a signal, they do not receive any. (Not really true, because the sateliets get information from the groundstations to correct their trajectory and clock)

    Also sending information to a satelite requires a relatively large antenna, and a lot of power.

     

    Another point is that you want to request a location; therefore the device has to listen on some frequency (bluetooth, GSM, satelite) to receive the request, and therefore needs power.

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  7. And another hickup of the website. Error 500 when trying to log in, and no avatar pictures in the forum.

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  8. The GPS45 is a very old GPS (25 years!), and has a problem with the week rollover from the GPS system. See an explanation of garmin: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=zWQY6Z2kFiAuY9kDnDBgZ6

    I don't think there is a firmware update for it to correct the EOW so you will have a wrong date 'forever'

     

    On https://www.javawa.nl/rollover.html  there is a link to a program to update the almanac of the GPS with https://www.javawa.nl/downloads/garmin/GpsEow_V1.20_PC_Software.zip it does not say wheter it does work with the GPS45, but you can try.

  9. 2 hours ago, watersphere said:

    So I was wondering if there is a way to save and load the current state of the gameplay under a qualified name (something like "Save As" via a Lua command for example)?

    No, there is only a 'save' command. No way to save under another name. You could make some variables that remember the state at some point and save them too.

    Then you could reload in your cartridge the stage-variables back into the 'running'variables...

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