Repair Monitor

[Kate Burhouse]

Hello

I volunteer at Exmouth Repair Cafe in Devon. We've been looking at using the Repair Monitor to record our activity at each session. It doesn't look as though it is very widely used. Have any other cafes tried it out? If so, what were your thoughts? If you decided against using it, why?

We've decided to make use of it, but have a few suggestions we'd like to make when it is next updated, if that is likely to happen.

Looking forward to hearing from others in the Repair Cafe network

Kate

[captainfuzzyface]

Hi,

Link for anyone who doesn't know what Repair Monitor is (which included me until 2 minutes ago). https://repairmonitor.org/en

Our RC has been logging appropriate items with the Restart Project (where appropriate) but I think that we will probably switch to this now. I'll give more feedback once we have actually used it a few times.

Martin

[captainfuzzyface]

Well, we used Repair Monitor for the first time yesterday and whilst it looks like a very good basis, it clearly still needs work. Does anyone from Repair Monitor read this forum topic?

[repaircafeweymouth]

We use RepairMonitor to log our repairs retrospectively. It is very easy to use especially on an iPad. It needs refinement so if people keep giving feedback to RepairMonitor when they ask for it, it should get more sophisticated.
Regards Ros

[mallingrepaircafe]

I started using the monitor back in November 2022, I entered about 5 repairs and then closed down the page intending to return later, when I did return, all the information had disappeared. Never used it again. Trying to design one for my Repair Cafe.

[captainfuzzyface]

So what are the alternatives to Repair Monitor? I'd love to use it but the interface isn't good enough yet to make that possible when you have a long queue of items to be logged in quickly.

I've spoken with the Repair Cafe people and asked if there are other ways to add our items to the same database, but there's no other real alternative. I think you can use the Open Repair Standard (restartproject) but this is meant primarily for electronics. Repair Monitor also won't open up an API or bulk upload for us to use.

Has anyone had any more success with ways to log items?