Hi Lynn,
For testing the setup, it is helpful to use a tag, and tag it than as “human” as species.
René
Someone was doing some testing! Please ignore.
Ah, ok. That makes a lot more sense, actually. I hadn’t seen any “human” tags before.
Human is used for testing systems and tags to differentiate from real records.?
Lynn, That’s my project and we use tags for short duration while undertaking maintenance and range testing. As the tags are subsiquently used for tagging migratory species, it avoids confusion between genuine and test deployments.
Why not just deploy the tag as a test tag in Motus and then end that deployment and do a genuine deployment when needed?
Because if you just log it as a test tag it doesn’t show up on the map, nor through R, so you can’t end-to-end verify it. It’s no more effort than logging it as a test tag, you still have to go through all the same tick boxes.
TEST tag detections should show up in the R data as there are no filters that are applied there. And they should show up the old Explore pages, assuming they have deployments. Even if they don’t have deployments, they will show up on the deployment timeline, which is the only place on the website that detections without deployments may be displayed. These are only visible to members of the project, however, so that might limit their usefulness.