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Post by bvrc on Jun 17, 2020 16:58:52 GMT
I've just checked there now - on my phone I have safari (I think) and I got straight in albeit, the images are still but it does change to other views. On my laptop I checked Internet Explorer and it said the page was not supported by this browser. On Microsoft Edge, I got the stream error message, maybe too many people on message. So from my end Safari seems the best....
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Post by balddave on Jun 17, 2020 17:16:48 GMT
I use safari, slower than it used to be but no access problems, shame only still picture, get the occasional stuttered movement, multiple changing views
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Post by katet on Jun 29, 2020 6:26:35 GMT
I’ve just got on, using my iPad ... it seems that it’s only working on Safari. Strange!
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lizzy
New Member
Posts: 3
Visits to Skiathos: More than 10
Accommodation Stayed At: Many and various over nearly 30 years. Skiathos Diamond now our go-to.
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Post by lizzy on Jul 8, 2020 14:00:29 GMT
I've been trying for weeks to get it up on my desktop using Chrome and Edge without success. Works fine on my phone with Safari but I'd much prefer the big screen experience! I don't have an iPad sadly. Please accept this next comment in the spirit of someone who isn't particularly techy - just wondered if it's a configuration issue at the Skiathos end? I know, that sounded impressive but I've really no idea what I'm talking about, save that if it works with Safari, there must be a way of making it work with Microsoft and other platforms. Am hoping Dennis reads this and is able to use his eminent contacts on the island to resolve it. The webcam has been a lifesaver in keeping spirits up here in Staffordshire although we are getting slightly more optimistic that our planned trip in mid-September might go ahead. Go Dennis!!
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Post by dennisn on Jul 8, 2020 20:26:59 GMT
I’m so sorry, lizzy. Occasionally I sound very techy, but it’s all an act. I’ve heard of Chrome and Edge, but haven’t the faintest about them (it?).
so here’s my techy sounding bit. Try another browser - Firefox, which is what I use on my desktop (despite it being a Mac with Safari). Firefox on my desktop Mac, Firefox on my laptop which is also Mac - I could use Safari on them both, but I got used to Firefox back in the day when I had Windows (that long ago). Webcam works well enough on Mac version of Firefox and I reckon it’ll do so on Windows.
If you don’t know how to get Firefox, just type it in your browser, then download it.
My small techyness tells me that some website builders manage to build a website without it being compatible with every browser under the sun. Some browsers manage to not be able to cope with every variation of website build. So sometimes, something doesn’t work with something else. I have an ancient Windows 7 laptop which I keep for just two windows programs which won’t work on Mac and won’t work on Windows 10 (and I can’t work Windows 10 anyway).
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Post by cariad23 on Jul 9, 2020 5:59:00 GMT
ive just got a new laptop Dennis with windows 10 and i hate it, very messy compared to 7. My son has a degree in computer science and even he hates it. i use my i phone alot now because its quicker than trying to figure some things out. but need the bigger screen for some stuff i to read. i see covid has flared up again in australia and serbia not going to go away soon
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Post by dennisn on Jul 9, 2020 9:32:17 GMT
I switched to Mac a long time ago (over 10 years) when I realised that windows computers start off great, but as soon as Microsoft start issuing updates and fixes (say about a day later) they start to slow down. I think this is because of the way they do updates/fixes - I think (and I could be completely wrong) that the OS is written as a long list of instructions which the thingy has to read and process. Any updates/fixes are added onto (the end of) the list of instructions, so the thingy has to read more and more as the list gets longer and longer. For example, like a book of instructions, which is increase4d by adding pages which say "forget what I said on page 27, now do this instead". As time goes by, that instruction also gets changed by another one further on in the book. The problem is (and remember, I could be wrong) that it is unable to put a diversion on page 27 to the new page, so it has to rfead all 543 pages before it gets to the one saying forget page 27. And it does this for every update/fix. So it takes longer. In the meantime, it has already done whatever page 27 says and the new instruction doesn't also say DELETE whatever page 27 says, so whatever that is, takes up space on your hard disk, making the disk busier too, reducing the disk's performance.
The Win 7 laptop is so clunky it's unbelievable - takes a minimum of quarter of an mhour to fire up and start ready to work, then similarly ages for nearly every time I press GO. So I decided to get a super Windows 10 laptop to run the two programs I love. First off, I couldn't work out how to operate the damned thing, it was so completely different from Win XP which I'd had on other stuff, I sat trying for ages to work it and even a LOT of swearing didn't do it. Then second off, it wouldn't run the two programs I wanted because they were 32 bit and it needed 64 bit - Win XP used to be capable of working both bits as it identified which was which. So I gave it away to a family member who has a son who knows how to run Win 10. So nowadays I fire up the ancient laptop about once every six months and swear a lot. I disconnect it from my wifi to prevent it from going back to Microsoft to get updates which make the startup time a lot more than the usual half hour.
It's a complete blessing to go back to my 5 year old desktop Mac which still runs just as well as the day I bought it. All my other Apple stuff is equally magic (MacBook, iPad and iPhone). It's expensive, but the saving on my vocabulary is worth it!
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Post by yorkshiremouth on Jul 9, 2020 10:56:58 GMT
I feel your pain.
By the way, I’ve just bought a laptop with a solid state hard drive rather than a disk. It’s fast at the moment, but they always are to start with.
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lizzy
New Member
Posts: 3
Visits to Skiathos: More than 10
Accommodation Stayed At: Many and various over nearly 30 years. Skiathos Diamond now our go-to.
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Post by lizzy on Jul 10, 2020 10:59:04 GMT
Hi all I've installed Firefox and voila! webcam bright and beautiful as ever. Peace and sanity restored. Firefox easy to download for those that are interested - just Google it and it downloaded v. quickly on my PC which uses Windows 10. I haven't set it as my default browser so I can still use Chrome or Edge as I need.
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Post by dennisn on Jul 18, 2020 8:03:33 GMT
Wonder of wonders. 8:45am Saturday and I was connected!
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magicsteph
Junior Member
Posts: 38
Visits to Skiathos: More than 10
Accommodation Stayed At: Erm...
Bellina - Aghia Paraskevi (no longer used I don't think)
Elizabeth - AP
Prekas - AP
Ostria - AP
Hotel magic - AP
The apts attached to iguana bar - AP (would not recommend)
Anna Maria - AP (most recent and going back)
Yiannis - Troulos
Somewhere in the back of beyond in Troulos a long time ago.
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Post by magicsteph on Jul 20, 2020 11:41:07 GMT
I've been having a nosey at the webcam on my phone, it connected no prob, but when watching the seconds counting it does run very slow, sometimes freezing on 1 image. It this the norm? Not tried on the mac yet, it doesn't get switched on much as its old and slow. Is it situated on the tower? I'm trying to recall what and where it could be in town.
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Post by dennisn on Jul 20, 2020 12:12:50 GMT
Yes, it’s on the clock tower. If you look at some of the many photos thereof, you’ll see a dangling bracket thing with a black dome - pictures taken with your back to the fence overlooking old harbour have it on the right of the tower.
if you got changing still images you did quite well. Sadly these days that’s great. When it first came on stream it was live video streaming and you could do some useful viewing (actually, I think I was the first to access it and I took screenshots of incoming planes as they passed along). But the only time I get any movement these days is at 5:30am UK time when you can see occasional gulls and swallows on the move. So many people are connecting now that everybody gets no movement and many don’t even get connected. I was going to go see the nice man this year to ask him what can be done about it, but COVID put paid to both my holidays this year. Maybe next?
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Post by balddave on Jul 24, 2020 13:08:43 GMT
Just looked at web cam, first flying dolphin I’ve seen this year at ferry port.
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magicsteph
Junior Member
Posts: 38
Visits to Skiathos: More than 10
Accommodation Stayed At: Erm...
Bellina - Aghia Paraskevi (no longer used I don't think)
Elizabeth - AP
Prekas - AP
Ostria - AP
Hotel magic - AP
The apts attached to iguana bar - AP (would not recommend)
Anna Maria - AP (most recent and going back)
Yiannis - Troulos
Somewhere in the back of beyond in Troulos a long time ago.
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Post by magicsteph on Jul 26, 2020 17:22:12 GMT
I love the flying dolphins. Our trip so skopelos/ alonnisos was so much faster and smoother.
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Post by balddave on Aug 27, 2020 15:36:26 GMT
I Took a peak at the webcam this afternoon, pleased to say it appears to be working properly again, full movement no buffering. Quite busy around the ferry terminal.
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