Motoman4540
Registered
Shearwater Cloud is good and bad. First, I would have thought that Shearwater would take a look at Diverlog, which is pretty much compatible with most DC's. Why reinvent the wheel? Diverlog worked well for me. Cloud does not need an internet connection to work. Cloud syncs flawlessly and easily with the Teric when I am on a dive boat and keeps track of everything quickly. You only need an internet connection to sync from your laptop or phone to the cloud to back up your data. But a couple of things irk me. First, entering dive notes is weird in that it is a tiny box on the side and you have to scroll down as you are writing to see what is being typed. Second, there appears to be no place to put a photo or video of the dive. I often liked to take a picture of the dive site from the briefing and stick that in the Diverlog for the dive. There also appears to be no way to delete the factory testing dives, which is not a huge deal but just a little annoying. Another somewhat annoying feature is that you have to enter your gear (if you track that sort of thing). I would prefer that, as in Diverlog, once use put your gear in once, it uses that gear by default for every dive. FYI, I could never get the Teric to work with Shearwater Desktop, as Desktop never recognized the Teric as an option! Overall, Cloud is a decent piece of free software, but like most free things, not perfect.
