Nic Hubbard

1 hour ago, Braillercd said:

We were wondering if there is an android version in the works. 

Not at this time. We are a very small development team, so we are focusing on iOS at the moment. 

If that changes we will be sure to announce it. 

1 minute ago, Tin999 said:

Yes, I am willing to help in translation into Japanese. :-)

Wonderful! Can you send me an email through the support option in Cachly? Then we can talk more details. Thanks!

16 minutes ago, Bolling said:

I'd say it's too soon to say if it "always" happens. I downloaded on wifi on both devices and was connected to wifi when using. Note though that the problem was only noticed with offline data. 

Thanks. I will look into this report right away and get it fixed. 

Thanks for reporting this. We had another user with this issue in the beta stage but we couldn't replicate it. 

Does this happen always? Or are there things that cause it such as not being on wifi or having no data connection?

Cachly does support other languages. We currently support French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. These are changed in Cachly based on your system language. 

Would you be interested translating for Japanese?

4 minutes ago, Tin999 said:

One thing I want is a color of temporarily disabled caches which are currently green same as other caches. I think it will be better if their color is a different color other than green. Then they can be distinguishable on the map. 

This isn't currently possible. However, disabled caches should have an X inside of them. Are you seeing this?

4 minutes ago, nastrud said:

Great job Nic! 

I absolutely love it!!!

Thank you! It was a lot of hard work, but so happy that we can share it with everyone!

1 hour ago, Kelsoboom said:

I encountered something yesterday in Cachly 1.1.7 on IOS 10.1.1 that might be a bug.  I was finding a cache that I had previously downloaded through a pocket query and which had four auxiliary waypoints as a part of its listing.  These were all accessible on Cachly through the Waypoints menu.  However during the process of finding the cache, I decided to save another waypoint of my own through the Add User Waypoint option.  After doing that, all the original 4 waypoints disappeared from the list and only the newly created one was visible.  The list heading still said there were 5 waypoints, and those waypoints still appeared on the navigation map, but the list only gave access to the one.  I was able to recreate this behavior again when I got home.

Thanks for reporting this. 2.0 will be released tomorrow morning (8am Pacific Time) and adds tons of new features and fixes hundreds of issues. It is likely this has already been fixed, but after you upgrade to 2.0 please let me know if you are still experiencing this. (Make sure to download the PQ since in 2.0 they download in a different way with MUCH more cache data.)

4 hours ago, Bolling said:

I'm a longtime Geosphere user as well. I agree it can drain the battery quickly unless the GPS turned off. One big difference between Geosphere and Cahly though appears to be in the device Privacy Settings. Cachly has the "while using app" option under location services. Geosphere has "always".

Yes, Geosphere has access to accessing your location even when you have left the app, so it could be using GPS and battery while you are not actively in the app. 

Cachly doesn't do this, and only uses GPS while the app is active.

16 minutes ago, Bunkshyde said:

As it's summer now Downunder (well almost!), I should get a chance to test all this someday soon. I'm looking forward to using Cachly in earnest as it seems to be much more accurate with its compass. After that I will also report back on battery usage having followed Nic's instructions (and those of my fellow Kiwi "barefoorguru").

One thing you can do to give you a hint as to which apps are using GPS is to go to your iOS Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services. You will see the location icon next to apps that have recently used your location.

Cachly 2.0 will be out on December 5th, so make sure to update!

5 minutes ago, barefootguru said:

While Nic says exit the app, just pushing the home button or switching to another app has the same effect (or locking screen as stated) and also turns off GPS.  You can also confirm this in Privacy settings — the only options for Cachly are Never and While Using.

I didn't meant close the app, just leave the app by hitting the home button. Closing it completely would be a huge pain for users.

9 hours ago, Bunkshyde said:

Think I'll go back to the Geosphere Forum now and see if I can drum up some more customers for you - you deserve them 

Thank you! Please let me know if you have any other questions.

10 minutes ago, Bunkshyde said:

If however, you are assuring us (and I have to trust you on this) that the GPS is turned off by iOS when the phone is locked, then that would probably work. I assume that if Cachly is left running (while the phone is locked), the GPS switches back on immediately you bring the phone out of lock? Not totally ideal but so long as you consciously keep locking the phone while caching, you should be able to extend the battery life beyond a few hours.

Correct. You can even test this by being in Cachly, then locking your phone. When you press the power button again (still on lock screen) you can wait until the location icon in the status bar turns off. This means GPS is no longer being used.

Yes, GPS switches back on if you unlock your phone and are back in Cachly.

Another tip to save battery life is to turn your phone to Airplane Mode. Since iOS 8 you have been able to use GPS while in Airplane Mode. This will also really save on battery.

I will still add the GPS on/off idea to our feature list. I think it is a valid request that we will explore. Thanks!

Glad you are enjoying using Cachly!

This is a tough one. I am of mindset of trying to make things powerful, while also being minimalistic. This means, if iOS can perform a function, I don't want to add it in the app (such as a flashlight feature). 

So, with that in mind, just locking your phone or exiting Cachly will turn off the GPS. Cachly doesn't keep GPS on while you exit the app, so this is the simple way to save battery life. When you want to turn it back on, just unlock your phone, or return to Cachly and GPS will turn back on.

Would this work for you?

3 hours ago, Bunkshyde said:

Nic,

I'm a Geosphere refugee! I've just downloaded Cachly on the recommendation of other frustrated Geosphere users and THEY WERE RIGHT! This is a great Geocaching App.

I took Cachly for a run yesterday and this is one of two things I noticed that would (in my view) greatly improve the Cachly experience. Bulk uploading of Pending Logs would be a huge help for those of us who travel overseas and Geocache without Data Plans on our phones. I always accumulate my finds during the day and bulk upload in the evening. Maybe the feature could include "Select All" and then allow the deselection of individual logs prior to actual upload.

 

Looking forward to version 2 - Hope Apple don't take too long approving it so you can include this feature in Version 2.1  

Welcome to Cachly!

Bulk upload of Pending Logs was a feature that we wanted to add in 2.0, but ultimately we had to keep it off the list because we couldn't add any more features since we want to get it released very soon.

That feature will be priority after 2.0 is released and will be in 2.0.1.

Team DEMP beat me to it! 

Yes, exactly as was said, this is just a feature of iOS and isn't something that we added.

Yes, as Team DEMP said, in 2.0 this will be possible to view other user's hides. Unfortunately we are not able to show Archived Hides, as the API from Groundspeak does not include those.

9 minutes ago, geotectives said:

Hi. Any plans for multiuser? As on L4CPro?

This isn't currently planned. It would be a huge feature integration, so we are currently focusing our development efforts on other features.  

3 minutes ago, Anapost said:

You helped me very good, thanks a lot!!!

Happy to help!

Happy to help.

When you create a new Waypoint, did you enter the coordinates and then hit "Save"? Make sure not to tap the "Current Location" option or "Geocache Location", as those are just quick presets. 

Once you have a saved Waypoint, you can swipe that row and it will give you the option to Edit or Delete. You can Edit your created Waypoint and fix the coordinates.

Let me know if that clears things up, I wasn't positive how your waypoint didn't get the waypoints that you entered, so wanted to make sure you didn't tap a preset.

3 hours ago, the2nddeal said:

Any update on this feature? I store all my solved puzzles in an offline list and being able to refresh them all would be great.

Yes, this feature has been added to our 2.0 version and our beta testers have been using it for a little while now.

Excellent idea. We actually have this on our feature list, but I will bump it up in priority.

Thanks!

1 hour ago, ShoesBologna said:

Ah, got it.

So if I understand you correctly:

When planning to do offline caching, it would be wise to only add a few a cache at a time in order to get more pictures per cache.

As in, when I planned my trip to another country, I created an offline list of 550 caches, and added photos and radius maps-->So I probably only got a few photos per cache.

Or are those two things not related?

No, those two things are not related.

What I meant was, some caches might have 500 photos available for them, especially very popular historic caches. Cachly does not download all these images, it only checks the last 30 or so logs to see if images were included in those logs.

When using the "Download Images" option Cachly looks through the log data that comes from the API for each cache. If the logs that are included (normally 30 logs) include images, those will be downloaded. So likely you will only get the last few images for a cache.

We don't download all images for caches because that would require a API call for each cache to find out what images are available (then downloading all images available). If we did try to do that it would quickly exhaust the available API calls that a user is allowed per minute. For example, if you were downloading 300 caches offline, we would have to make 300 requests to geocaching.com, and because we are limited to 30 requests per 60 seconds, this entire action would take over 10 minutes.