Thread: CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
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Old January 19th 12, 12:53 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)
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05:14:39 on Thu, 19 Jan 2012, remarked:
I also have a PATH Smartlink card. When I'm over there I can carry
both cards in the same wallet and the PATH readers read their card and
ignore the Oyster one. However, The Oyster readers will never read
their card if there's a Smartlink card anywhere near it. With this
particular combination of cards it's not really a problem since only
rarely would anybody use both cards on the same day, but with similar
cards being introduced for various purposes it could become a problem
in future. It really shouldn't be a problem to have readers ignore
'foreign' cards, after all, the PATH ones manage to do it.

The Oyster system seems supersensitive to multiple cards being presented
- it didn't work if in the same wallet as a door-entry "card" (actually
more of a thick card-sized token).

It's interesting how few of these have photos on (something that's
extremely common on card-based ID badges for conference that I go to).
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Roland Perry
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