UK Tides, whats wrong?

[DaveS]

Every year the LOTI at Craobh supplies an Oban tide table for £1 donation to the RNLI. This is perfectly adequate for local waters, but if I'm going further afield an old almanac lets me convert to other standard ports. The plotter also shows a tide curve for the nearest place it knows of. I have no idea how that works, but I occasionally check it against the tables and it's always been right so far.

 

[djc]

Is he sure? When it can't connect to the server, UK Tides gives a set of plausible but entirely fictitious tide times for any port you give it.

Yes sure, I ve seen it myself his phone has all the UK tide detail is fully up to date and working , all the tide curves & heights as it should be. Where as my phone just shows the back ground blank dates and zeros . As if cant connect to server.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Yes sure, I ve seen it myself his phone has all the UK tide detail is fully up to date and working , all the tide curves & heights as it should be. Where as my phone just shows the back ground blank dates and zeros . As if cant connect to server.

Interesting. I wonder if earlier versions used a different server.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Every year the LOTI at Craobh supplies an Oban tide table for £1 donation to the RNLI. This is perfectly adequate for local waters, but if I'm going further afield an old almanac lets me convert to other standard ports. The plotter also shows a tide curve for the nearest place it knows of. I have no idea how that works, but I occasionally check it against the tables and it's always been right so far.

I find that a Laver's Greenock/Oban booklet is perfectly adequate for the West Coast while their Belfast/Liverpool one does nicely for the Irish Sea. It might be different with weird Solent tides, of course, but while I liked UK tides I can't say its passing has caused me any great hardship.

 

[djc]

Interesting. I wonder if earlier versions used a different server.

I am thinking that could be why . He said his UK tides went down like every one else's but about a month ago the app lived up and worked again and has done so ever since. The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2 which is a old model phone , maybe that's why it works and the newer phone do not ? ..

 

[JumbleDuck]

I am thinking that could be why . He said his UK tides went down like every one else's but about a month ago the app lived up and worked again and has done so ever since. The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2 which is a old model phone , maybe that's why it works and the newer phone do not ? ..

It's dead on my Galaxy S.

 

[ffiill]

Tide Predictions-android app
Its the same as - www.mdr.co.nz.World Tides for windows.
this free app is a downloaded set of worldwide harmonic data valid for about 50 years.
It presents either as a visual harmonic chart which you can scroll forward or backward or go to a set date.Data can also be displayed in a written high/low tide format.
I have used the MDR version on my laptop for years and as the data comes from Liverpool University Proadmans Oceanographic Instutes tide gauges around the uk the data you get is the same as you will find in Lavers.
I also recently checked it for accuracy against live observations at Noosa Heads in Queensland Australia and again its accurate.
Best of all its a freebe!

 

[OceanSprint]

Just for info, the UK only has one tide gauge network. It is run by the National Tidal and Sea Level Facility, currently hosted by the National Oceanograpic Centre in Liverpool, formally known as the Proudman Lab, which itself was sited on the Wirral at the then famous Bidston Observatory (and then part of the Institute of Ocean Sciences or IOS). Hydrographic Office get their tidal data from NTSL as well.

See http://www.ntslf.org

(Others do set up tide gauges, like the EA and SEPA, but these local ones are for other purposes, like flood prevention, rather than tidal prediction.)

 

[Sans Bateau]

I gave up with UK Tides. Now I use Absolute Tides. The app is free but you buy a year's supply of tides data for a couple of quid. Advantage is that it works without data connection - the info is always there. Plus when you do have a data signal on your phone or wifi on your tablet, it will give you the inshore waters forecast. It also has a great widget which means you can set your home port on the home screen and it will show you current state of the tide. Does everything UK Tides used to do but IMHO actually better.

If you go on the Play Store, remember you get the app free but have to pay for and install the tides data separately. To get secondary port data you go to the standard port and then select the secondary port from a list. Means you only have the ports you want to look at, rather than scroling through lots of them.

Thanks BP, that looks good, I just downloaded it and bought the data for the rest of 2014 for 50p! Your right it look a lot better than UK Tides.

 

[OceanSprint]

+1 for Absolute Tides

 

[AHoy2]

UK Tides now updating and running again on my devices.

BTW Absolute Tides 2015 data now available.

 

[Storyline]

UK Tides also updating this morning (checked values are correct) on Hudl tablet.
Version 2

 

[sailorman]

anyTide looks ok

 

[LadyInBed]

Bum! Deleted App when it failed, now can't find it on Playstore or via google