Password Sharing Myki allows you to share your passwords securely with another person, without letting them know your Myki PIN. Reporting The reporting in Myki is a great little feature — making this more of a password manager option for business, or teams. Mobile App The time came to install the Myki mobile app. I decided to ignore this again, and opened the browser extension instead — Importing time!
The dashboard is nice and simple too — I could clearly see where each type of data was meant to go — The program itself is also straightforward and easy to work with. One other security aspect I liked was that during installation… I had the above option — interesting to know!
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Was it helpful? Worthwhile, solid review. I'm everyone's old grandpa. No longer computer-smartphone-password manager literate. I found Sophie's explanations, depth of analysis and rationale most helpful. After reading through it, I'm leaning towards RoboForm.
R Wagner. It has been a great product for me, other family members and friends. I sync passwords between four different systems without issues. I do not use the browser integration. Also, their presence on Reddit is another way to obtain answers and learn tips. Jay B. I uninstall MIKI and still get pop-ups. I hated this manager. Didn't work most of the time. Now still every time I am about to type in a password, a huge pop-up trying to get me to scan a code with my phone.
My opinion is that this is some kind of spamming. I wish I had never installed it in my computer. I don't know what to do to get rid of this spamming. Nice but with some flaws. I have used Myki for about a year. Everything was pretty much as the review states. Problem spotted when at some point my iPhone app would not open and constantly crashing.
This also meant that all synced extensions were not approved as well, since I could not approve them via the mobile app. Although I could delete all and restore from backup, I wanted to check how support would respond as well as how could I get my passwords in case I do not have my backup available. The interesting part came when I was asked from support to provide some information about my device and serial number. After some magic support did the app on my phone was functioning fine.
This for me was the part that it meant the application was providing access to Myki Show More employees. There is no reason for the app to stop working if it is living on the device. I understand not being able to sync with other devices or approve but not opening on the promary device that was a huge concern. I have Myki premium and although there is security in locally based storage, which was what attracted me at first , I now prefer storage in the cloud.
In theory the cloud can be hacked. But I have found out that there are some cloud services that are well secured. Not to mention that the antivirus I use protects my email accounts from breach.
And I only use the social accounts that I can use a 2FA with. So I am not so much interested in local storage again except for a few items. You must also touch on when boarding at railway stations if your destination is a gated station, otherwise the gates at your destination may not let you out, and you may have to queue for staff assistance.
You should also touch on and touch off if you are travelling on a Myki Pass outside the zone s you have paid for. Except on trams see below , the official line is yes.
The default fare does not apply to Myki Pass if you touched on started your journey in your nominated zone. The government says it gets useful statistics about travel patterns if people touch on and touch off every time. There was an obvious likelihood of congestion on trams resulting from the number of passengers trying to touch on and off at busy stops. Your Myki ticket is valid as long as you touch on at a station, or board the tram or bus, before the expiry time.
That benefit has been withdrawn under Myki. The result is that Myki Pass users must pay extra if they travel into another zone. The information showing your card balance, and the amount deducted for your journey, will be displayed for as long as you hold your card to the reader, so hold it up for longer if you want to check that information.
However, some of the new card readers on railway station barriers do not display any information about the status of the card. You can also use a Myki Card Vending Machine or a Myki Check blue-colured machine to find out the status of your card. The validity of a Myki card expires four years after purchase, although the expiry date is not shown on the card itself. Note that the expiry date is set when the card is first loaded with credit, so if you buy a pre-loaded card that has been lying around for a while before you bought it, the expiry date may be a lot less than four years away.
These are situated at railway stations, some tram platform stops, and some major bus interchanges. If you have registered your Myki you can find out the expiry date by logging on to your account via the PTV website.
People who have registered their Myki will be reminded of the imminent expiry by PTV before the expiry date. Before your Myki expires you can go to any staffed railway station or PTV Hub to get a free replacement card. The remaining balance on your old card will be transferred to the new one. If your Myki has a negative balance, you will have to top-up to a positive balance as part of the replacement process.
Sixty days or less before the expiry date, you can either apply online or use a mailed Application for Replacement Myki. If your expired Myki is registered, the replacement card will also be automatically registered. However, if you have auto top up linked to your expired Myki, you will have arrange auto top up again for your new card.
But if you use it every day, the system does not automatically upgrade you to a cheaper 7-day Pass or a day Pass etc. Myki Pass must be pre-loaded to attract the cheaper periodical fare. No, not on trains, but you may be affected if you want to make use of the 2-hour fare and you catch trams and buses. Under Myki, your ticket is valid as long as you start your trip that is, touch on at the station, or as you board the tram or bus before the 2-hour travel time expires.
This is only a problem when using trams and buses, because you only touch on as you board. When using trains you can enter the platform and touch on before the expiry time, no matter how late the train you are catching might be.
If you are going to travel for more than 2 hours it makes no difference to you, but if you are trying to make a couple of short trips using a bus or tram in a single 2-hour period, with no other travel that day, you will be charged the daily fare if the bus or tram arrives late, after your 2-hours has expired.
Monetary compensation for poor service delivery can only be claimed if you have travelled for 10 or more days with a Myki Pass that is for 28 days or longer. Given the electronic nature of the Myki system, it is ridiculous that getting compensation is a manual process, involving filling in a form and posting it.
It seems obvious that the system is designed to discourage passengers from getting the compensation they are owed. Compensation is paid as the Myki Money equivalent of the zones covered by the Pass, rather than extending the duration of the Pass. Hong Kong and Singapore and a number of other cities use fares based on how many kilometres you travel. Myki fares continue to be based on zones which now spread across a lot of Victoria and duration 2-hour, daily, etc.
There is little information printed on the Myki card itself, and no obvious way of telling whether you have validated correctly or not. Station exits during the evening peak have become congested as train-loads of people queue to touch off. The unacceptably slow and inconsistent response times of the original card readers did not help in this regard. Touching off was made optional on trams, to avoid delays. Whether delays occur depends to a great extent on how quickly the readers respond, and how many there are.
The PTUA flagged a number of design and implementation problems with Myki that needed fixing , and we are continuing to give feedback to Public Transport Victoria.
This makes things extremely difficult for tourists, for new and occasional public transport users, or for passengers who have problems with their Myki, and it will be a further source of fare evasion. As soon as Myki began operating, the PTUA asked that different sounds be introduced for a touch on and a touch off.
Instead of that, we got the totally unnecessary introduction of a double beep for concession passengers. Opportunities for buying and topping up cards are still too limited, especially for tram and bus users. We asked PTV to make changes to the relevant hardware and software which will make this less likely to occur. Probably not. Although the Myki system brings some benefits , including better access to cheap fares, these are eclipsed by the enormous cost of the system.
Few passengers wanted a new ticket system, and the PTUA argued that, for a fraction of the cost, either the previous Metcard system could have been updated, or a cheaper Smartcard system bought from elsewhere. The money saved could have been spent on more staff, trains, trams and buses. Email office at ptua. Be warned, the Manual is over pages long. Public Transport Victoria has posted some useful information on its web site, which you can read here.
You can ring PTV for information, on 6 a. You can also go to a PTV Hub to get assistance. Then you load another day Pass and start that on the following Monday. So either way, you maximise value by getting the benefit of pass prices for weekdays, and weekend saver fares on weekends. I suspect most people on passes use PT on the weekend sometimes, but not every day every weekend, unlike work days. This is pretty much why buying passes longer than 33 days has diminishing benefit, as per my comment about yearlies above.
Of course it may have re-emerged or possibly still happens on buses and trams, which are much harder to test on purpose. Agree about the weekly cap, that would be great, and would also make buying a pass less confusing if the only option was 28 day and above. Nathan, thanks. The two main reasons are: to suppress the annoying warning notices that pop up every next touch-on, and to make the transaction list slightly easier to read.
It is probably not frequent commuters, but I have quite often noticed people delaying a tram by touching off before they leave a tram. And peeps, if the Myki reader does not read your card in 0. Just hold it still. Yes, the readers are too slow. I mentioned the topic of a myki weekly cap on my blog a few months ago. Showing the expiry time for myki money fares should be so simple.
Years ago I requested the feature several times and was always advised by the phone operators that this was one of their most requested features. Day after day I queue up at the station exit waiting for dozens of people ahead of me to touch off. Each person needs to hold their card against the reader for secs, and that adds up to a lot of delay and frustration. It is supposed to work in a fraction of this time, like in other smart card cities.
If the screen says my pass expires on 31 January, it means 3am that day, so most people would think of it as expiring on 30 January and many will get caught out. IPhone and Android apps, so that you can top up, check balances and transactions and perform other account management functions on your phone.
Dave — Thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense and I guess is something else they could promote. Not exactly a bug, but a feature that could be useful for pass holders is to eliminate the hard requirement to have touched on to be able to open a barrier gate.
I got referred to an AO who basically said as much and waved me on. This makes it harder for consumer to quickly check if charges are correct. First awareness may be via an Authorised Officer and fine.
The system is unable to recognise that you were the traveller for both cards. You will eventually get an emal demanding that you send the card in. So when you ring back on the same matter the next operator has no idea of the problem and no record on the computer of previous conversation.
Joe To what degree is a person expected to take some responsibility and do some thinking with their public transport travel? Roger If you touch on to a gate immediately after someone touched on and is passing through, it will remain open until it senses a second person passing through.
I do this every morning! Marcus — I agree that Yarra Trams ran quite an effective marketing campaign that seemed to get the message through — they just ended it before the last tranch of passengers shifted to Myki and were therefore receptive to the message ie when Metcard was switched off.
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