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#2502357 10-Jun-2020 15:42

freitasm:
@neb the latest update to the app adds the option to be notified if you have been somewhere with a positive result requiring tracing, and give the option off uploading your data. I would say this is what we need the app for, so not quite your summary.

What I meant was that lipsticking the app was pointless if almost no-one has the QR available code to scan.

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#2502362 10-Jun-2020 15:51

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I've found 50% of the places I've visited (very few as I have left home only twice in the last couple of weeks) have the MBIE QR code. Another 30% would have their own code that redirects to an online form. Yes, highly unreliable stats.

@neb the latest update to the app adds the option to be notified if you have been somewhere with a positive result requiring tracing, and give the option off uploading your data. I would say this is what we need the app for, so not quite your summary.

I'm picking your visits haven't been to Wellington CBD as their are more rare white fantails flying around the city than there are MBIE QR codes to scan.

I totally agree uploading data and being notified is exactly the functionality we need and I would use in a heartbeat if there were QR codes to scan.

IF ONLY MBIE WOULD REVISE AND SIGNIFICANTLY SIMPLIFY THE QR PROCESSES FOR BUSINESSES. I rarely shout, but, seriously, MBIE?

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#2502404 10-Jun-2020 17:04

I see that the process for businesses might be getting a bit easier in the near future:

A self-service portal for quickly and easily generating your official QR code posters will be available from this page from Friday, 12 June 2020. In the interim, you can use one of the two options set out below - Getting your official QR code posters.

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#2502435 10-Jun-2020 18:15

Might be taking the prove your business and here's an official ID for the QR, to a specific non duplicate assigned one based on name and address instead with any luck!

I don't venture much. But where I have has had a pretty good hit rate

Though you had to get inside and to the countertop to find the latest one
I suggested an A3 copy on the outter doors.

Our supermarkets must be a bit more onto it :)

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#2502437 10-Jun-2020 18:19

Where do you get the check-in history? Can't see any obvious location for it in the MoH app.

Edited to add: Ah, it's in the new version of the app, just found it after I forced an update. And this pretty much says it all:

The EB Games was the initial test with the only place I could find, after considerable searching, that had the code up. The rest are all the places I've been to that had the code up.

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#2502439 10-Jun-2020 18:23

Hard to find but on the scan screen there is a small black circle top left - this takes to your "check in history.

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#2502522 10-Jun-2020 19:54

neb:
freitasm:

@neb the latest update to the app adds the option to be notified if you have been somewhere with a positive result requiring tracing, and give the option off uploading your data. I would say this is what we need the app for, so not quite your summary.

What I meant was that lipsticking the app was pointless if almost no-one has the QR available code to scan.

Why don't the Govt make it compulsory for businesses to make the govt QR code available?

If the app now has 200K registrations based on 4M potential users that would be a 5% uptake so far...

I also see the latest update still doesn't support older versions of Android (and if anyone knows how to force an update to my v1.0 app installed when it supported Android 6 let me know)

My conclusion still is that the app for is no longer a priority for the govt and is now in my view essentially a marketing exercise, maybe they realised that a mobile app was never going to effective in the circumstances and hence all the real effort went into a call center trace capability

Interesting the MoH response to someone who recently articulated the lack of QR codes in a Playstore review was "NZ COVID Tracer is designed to support rather than replace existing contact tracing processes and is voluntary to use..."

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#2502586 10-Jun-2020 22:20

Our current dismal state of tracing is a combination of poor implementation coupled with public complacency (we think it's all done and dusted in godzone). Sadly it will probably be Covid popping up again which refocuses our attention.

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#2502592 10-Jun-2020 22:31

I won't be using any kind of covid tracing app. Businesses requiring your contact details seem rather inconsistent to date.

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#2502599 10-Jun-2020 23:13

DarthKermit:

I won't be using any kind of covid tracing app. Businesses requiring your contact details seem rather inconsistent to date.

You're 3 days too late for that.

They don't need to be consistent anymore. It's now up to you to be able to identify where you go during the day.

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#2502673 11-Jun-2020 07:07

The government need to get on top of this ! We will get another case that sneaks through our borders and when that happens we need to stomp on it quick.

The NZ Herald article about the Singapore Airlines crew member's friend who complained she couldn't meet the crew member for a meal is exactly how this will get back in. We'll have some silly woman who pressures her airline friend to meet for ' a meal'.

To her, the meal is more important than our Covid free state. And we'll all pay the price!

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#2502743 11-Jun-2020 09:04

neb: Where do you get the check-in history? Can't see any obvious location for it in the MoH app.

Edited to add: Ah, it's in the new version of the app, just found it after I forced an update.

It's been there since the first release.

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#2502751 11-Jun-2020 09:17

freitasm:

neb: Where do you get the check-in history? Can't see any obvious location for it in the MoH app.

Edited to add: Ah, it's in the new version of the app, just found it after I forced an update.

It's been there since the first release.

Yeah, but its in a dog of a place,

in the IOS Version (assuming the same for Android) you have to have the camera active ready to read a QR code to see your history....

On others like Rippl the history button is right on the front page..

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#2502760 11-Jun-2020 09:41

I was at Countdown Meadowbank the other day. They had two of the official QR posters up but my Android phone could scan neither posters (even tho both were good quality). I found this odd as I've managed to get it to scan other posters (including in one case where they had laminated the poster so there was a lot of light reflection but the QR scanner picked it up straight away so the QR scanning code does seem to be robust). I wonder if there's some sort of issue with the QR scanning code in the MOE app... My current theory is it can't handle QR codes that resolve to a string longer than a certain amount of characters. The QR code at Countdown Meadowbank seemed to be very dense with lots of pixels compared to the other QR codes I've seen...

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#2503668 12-Jun-2020 14:39

kinginvercargill:

I see that the process for businesses might be getting a bit easier in the near future:

A self-service portal for quickly and easily generating your official QR code posters will be available from this page from Friday, 12 June 2020. In the interim, you can use one of the two options set out below - Getting your official QR code posters.
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Ok, I've just had a look at the new self-service portal for downloading QR codes - link here

Significant improvement - one link, drivers licence for ID, some option information thereafter, enter address, generate code.

They needed to do this, so due credit that they listened and acted on feedback. Thank you.

Hopefully a media campaign of some sort will follow - especially to alert businesses that previously tried and gave up.

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