1. yes, this is an unapologetically techy project  🤔; it’s downloaded to your personal phone, and, as I’ve found out over the years, individual phones seem to have individual ‘personalities’. First off, some smart phones do not have an accelerometer – they might know where you are, but not how you’re moving thru’ the cityscape. So they won’t run the app (probably). Then, if you don’t normally use your phone’s location services, it’s not trained up to be very accurate (seems the more you use it, the more accurate it gets), so the ‘soundpools’ will be, er, 5m to the left/right/who knows? Come back on a different day and all may be well…. the soundpools do move, it’s the nature of the tech
  2. The poems are triggered by your phone’s GPS, so you need to have location services enabled. iPhone: Settings>Privacy & Security>Location Services> on. Android: Settings> Biometrics and security>Location> on
  3. you also need to make sure the app can use your camera, otherwise when you press the SCAN button from within the app, nothing will happen. To enable these functions: iPhone: Settings>SatsymphQR> set ‘Location’ to ‘While using’; switch camera and Mobile Data on (button shows green) Android: Settings>Apps>SatsymphQR>Permissions> make sure your camera and location are enabled (button is green)
  4. Also, in ‘app permissions’ it helps to TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS, otherwise various bells and whistles will sound at intervals
  5. Um, sometimes people hear nothing because your phone’s sound is turned off … just saying. So make sure you turn it on!
  6. Remember – GETTING THE WALKS ON YOUR PHONE IS ALWAYS A 2-STAGE PROCESS. (1) You need to have Satsymph QR on your phone. (2) Then you need to add the walk you want to go on to ‘Library’ by pointing the SCAN function WITHIN THE APP ITSELF at the relevant QR, whether this QR is on your pc/laptop screen, or on the paper pdf you have printed out (or on any promotional literature).
  7. If you are not near (say 10m or so) of any of the participating libraries and open ‘street’ from the app Library you will see a blank screen. The maps and soundpools only appear when you are near one of the participating libraries!
  8. the experience is downloaded to your phone and uses your phone’s GPS. Interestingly enough, each person’s phone reacts slightly differently, and – did you know this? – your phone when in ‘location’ mode is continually asking ‘Is Ralph here or is he … there?‘ It’s jumping around all the time, it’s never ‘oh, THIS is IT!’ So things, locations of the soundpools etc etc can vary, hour to hour, minute to minute, day to day. It’s a characteristic of the technology – go with it!
  9. no, we do not track you through the app. The only information we gather is the number of times Satsymph QR has been downloaded
  10. sound quality is obviously better with headphones/earbuds. These also allow you to hear the ‘spatiality’ which is a feature of some of the audio (what you hear depends on which way you’re facing).