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Beginning with version 0.9.0 of CacheMe we have switched from our custom GcBrowser to the official GcLive API. This change will hopefully end those problems arising from changes on the geocaching.com web site.
Further advantages of the GcLive plugin will e.g. be a real live log feature allowing you to create log entries directly from CacheMe and a search function allowing you to search for geocaches by name or waypoint directly from within CacheMe. These features will be added over the next few months.
There are some disadvantages for non-premium members as explained in section "Schedule A" of the Geocaching.com API License Agreement.
CacheMe is required to meet these limitations. It is still designed to make the most out of this:
If you are still not satisfied with the new version you can find an unlimited free copy of the last non-GCLive version 0.8.16 below in the various device sections.
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CacheMe is an online geocaching application. It's written entirely in Qt and QtMobility. It currently runs on Linux, Windows, Symbian^3, Maemo5 and MeeGo.
CacheMe is designed to be portable and flexible. Portability is achieved by using the Qt framework which is supported on various platforms. The flexibilityis achieved by extensively using plugins to include functionality like new map sources or geocache location providers.
Some of the highlights include:
CacheMe is primarily used for online usage. You need to be connected to the internet to use this mode. In online mode you can use any of the map service providers delivered with CacheMe together with the GcLive cache provider mode. This is the default if you start CacheMe for the first time. CacheMe will then connect to the geocaching.com site and accessing geocaching.com through the GcLive API, giving you a faster and more intuitive experience then a normal web browser would give you. For an even faster experience, CacheMe stores cache information locally once fetched from the internet. Thus images won't be downloaded over again if you reopen a certain cache detail view. This also lowers bandwidth requirements significantly.
You need to input your geocaching.com account credentials into the CacheMe settings to allow the GcBrowser to log into geocaching.com and to retrieve detailed cache informations for you. These credentials or stored locally on your device and never be forwarded to anything else but the geocaching.com site for login purposes.
Keep in mind that you are still using the geocaching.com site though the CacheMe GcLive plugin. If that site is unreachable or down, then CacheMe will work slow or not properly at all. Also geocaching.com is frequently undergoing updates and may be inaccessible from time to time during such updates. If you experince problems with CacheMe please check geocaching.com with your web browser to see if the site is operational.
Despite the fact that CacheMe is intended to be used online, a limited offline mode is also available. In the settings select the "Cloudmade" map service provider. This supports limited caching of map tiles and if you visit a certain area e.g. while being online at home or in the hotel a limited portion of map data will be stored on the device and can be re-used in the field. However, this is a service provided by the CloudMade GeoService plugin and is not a specific part of the CacheMe and thus e.g. the tile caching may not work perfectly for these purposes.
For offline geocache information select the GPX cache provider plugin in the menu and load a Pocket Query. You don't need to unzip them, CacheMe will do this itself if necessary.
Images are not included in those pocket queries. To view the images, open the cache description while being online. The downloaded images will be kept locally on the device and the next time you watch the same cache description it won't need to download them again.
If you encounter problems with your version, please check in the about box whether you are using the latest version:
The latest version may not also be available in time for all supported platforms. If your platform hasn't yet been updated, check back a few days later. If a version is missing for a week, then feel free to send an email.
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CacheMe has been ported to various platforms since it's using the Qt framework. Although Qt and QtMobility are officially supported on various platforms, in reality not a single platform provides a 100% end-user friendly solution for QtMobility.
This is the platform CacheMe is mainly being developed on. Currently it's not distributed in binary form. Since QtMobility is not a part of any desktop Linux distribution, it has to be added from 3rd party repositories like the Forum Nokia Qt PPA for Ubuntu.
CacheMe comes with a special location plugin which allows CacheMe to connect to the GPS daemon as used on most desktop linux versions.
This the platform CacheMe has initially been developed for. Although having been released officially on November 2010, the necessary QtMobility 1.2 is still only available as a community provided port for Maemo5.
Since version 0.9.0 CacheMe includes secret tokens required for access to the geocaching.com site. Thus CacheMe cannot be distributed with source code anymore and thus no Maemo5 version can be distributed via the extras-devel repository. For these reasons there's only the binary download:
This is the plattform CacheMe was initially be started for when it became clear that MeeGo/Harmattan won't include the hildon/gtk frameworks and thus won't be able to run my GPXView application. Unfortunately it wasn't clear at that time that plain Qt apps also wouldn't be supported by a proper themeing in the final MeeGo/Harmattan releases, so the work that started to have a geocaching application ready in time for this new operating system seemed to be doomed before the first device was sold.
In the meantime George Ruinelli is frequently modifying and re-packaging the Maemo5 version for Harmattan and does some modifications to circumvent some of the most important problems that arise from the fact that Harmattan does not include a theming for plain Qt applications like CacheMe.
I have decided not continue the harmattan version due to the decision of Nokia not to sell the n9 in germany. Without any device directly available to the end user i just don't see an audience for my application. However, Symbian will still be supported.
I got a Nokia C7 phone as part of the Qt Ambassador program. While i initially never expected to be interested in Symbian^3 the lack of a MeeGo plattform caused me to port CacheMe to Symbian^3. Symbian^3 was the first platform to support a magnetometer (magnetic compass). The free Symbian^3 version has a time limit while the version distributed through the OVI store hasn't. Furthermore the free version is mainly to let people test new features. Once cacheme is more mature, these free versions will not be built, anymore.
Symbian^1 is now officially supported and available in the store for many symbian^1 phones. A demo version can be downloaded below:
Symbian^1 has significant memory limitaions over Symbian^3 and you should be aware that installing the required Qt libraries on your device may require ~13MB free storage space on the internal C: storage.
Due to missing proper Qt mobility support on windows the Windows version is no longer supported.
CacheMe does not work on certain platforms it might/should actually run on. This has several reasons.
Since Necessitas project release 0.3 CacheMe can be compiled using necessitas. But i have not yet been able to actually run it as the emulator claims it crashes. This needs further investigation..
I don't have a Mac and thus no way to compile and test for MacOS.
Currently CacheMe supports the english language (built-in), the german and the slovak language (by external translation file). You can do your own translation using qt linguist. You can start with the translation file skeleton below. Rename it to your own locale (e.g. to cacheme_fr.ts for french) and use the qt linguist application to add the translations for your language. Finally use "release" from the file menu to export your translations into the binary translation file (e.g. cacheme_fr.qm).
The resulting binary file can the be copied to the installation. E.g. under Symbian to E:\data\cacheme\lang if CacheMe is installed on the internal Mass Memory.
If you've trouble downloading the cacheme_xx.ts file, then use the "save as" feature of your browser and make sure the resulting file is named cacheme_fr.ts (or whatever is appropriate for your desired language).
When doing the translation you can keep all those parts blank that you don't want to see translated. These will then still use the original english texts.
You can then share your translations with other users or submit them for inclusion into CacheMe. Be aware that CacheMe is under constant development and translations will have to be updated every now and then.
An unrestricted Symbian version is available from the store. The version available here will stop working after some time to avoid having to support two versions and it's not guaranteed that there'll always be a time limited free version avaiable.
Since CacheMe version 0.9.0 the authorization is done through the web browser. CacheMe itself doesn't need the password anymore and you can be sure that your password cannot be misused by CacheMe. Instead CacheMe receives an access token during this authorization process. The token is saved and authorization is only required once.
Only the Cloudmade map stores tiles at all and this is limited to 30MB. Older data will be overwritten if this limit is reached.
This is a limitation of Nokias Qt Mobility framework. It doesn't allow the map once displayed to change it's service provider.
The magnetic compass needs to be calibrated. There a small gray circle in the lower right corner of the compass view if the magnetic compass is available. Turn your phone around all three axes until this circle is completely green. The compass is then fully calibrated and should work fine.
Yes, updates are supposed to be free and should be available directly via the OVI store application.
I don't know why the OVI store sometimes doesn't offer to install updates automatically. This is an OVI issue and not a CacheMe issue. Anyway, you can uninstall the old version and reinstall the latest version without having to pay again. Unfortunately only five such re-installations are allowed by Nokia. I have no influence on this.
Go to the navigation view, click the small "tool" icon and select "New" from the popup menu to create a new custom coordinate.
No, sorry, i don't have a twitter account and don't plan to get one.
Not yet. Although you might have OVI maps support on your device as well as OVI maps support in the Qt framework used by CacheMe, these are two very different things. Nokia seems to have plans to support offline maps in Qt, so there's hope that this might actually change.
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