Cachemate: "No plugins" error

[+Manco46er]

O.K., I finally made the leap to paperless caching. I just purchased a Garmin IQue 3000 and have installed Cachemate on it and have exported a pdb file to it with all my pq caches(just over 3,600 caches). Here's my problem. When I run cachemate, it list all my caches, I'm guessing in alphabetical order. Playing around with it, I selected <search <nearest caches and in the next window I selected < from GPS. When I do this I get an error message stating that there are "no plugins of the type required for this function are installed." Am I wrong in assuming that trying this function it will relist my caches nearest to my present location based on my current gps coordinates? If that is what this search function does, where do I get the plugins I need. Thanks for all the help.

[+NightPilot]

You need either the Garmin Query or NMEA Query plugin, depending on what mode you're using the iQue in. You can get all the plugins from Smittyware. Cachemate comes somewhat bare, but various plugins enhance the functionality. If you have enough available memory, I recommend getting all the applicable plugins.

[+immo_hgw]

Hello,

 

i have the same problem with a Sony PDA TH55 with a BT Holux GPS mouse athlib Cachmate and cachenav are installed at the PDA. But i Get the same error

[+NightPilot]

Even if CacheNav is installed, you need the NMEA Query plugin. No idea why Brian did things that way, perhaps the GPS integration was an afterthought. For full functionality of Cachemate, you need to install the plugins.

[+Manco46er]

Thanks for the help! I forgot to select the plugins for installation when I did a hot sync. Got them in and the search worked perfectly.

[+Maeglin]

It was done that way because NMEA query functionality was at one time built into CacheMate. When I broke things out into plugins, out it came. When CacheNav later came along, those two remained separate mainly because there would be some users that would need a one-shot GPS query using NMEA (say, Magellan users, since those units transfer waypoints with NMEA extensions) but perhaps not CacheNav, and I was trying to avoid redundant plugin functions.