Track your stuff...bikes too

[Beeping-Sleauty]

greeting Peeps,

i was looking for a way to CHEAPLY track my bike in the event it may get filched/nicked/half-inched or even stolen...

and i came across this: https://thetrackr.com/

from about £10 all in, if you buy 2

all you need is a smart phone

anybody tried one ?

beeps

 

[Roybut]

I had a look as it sounded like a great idea but it only tells you where your phone last knew of your tracker, not where it is now. So if your bike is stolen from your garden, unless the thief is a neighbour, it will tell you that you bike is still in your garden.

 

[Gubbins]

I think its a bit like google maps traffic in that it needs a lot of other users for it to work.
Like all things internet/4G they probably dont work out in the sticks..

 

[Beeping-Sleauty]

OK... maybe not

i was lured by the original video... 30 secs in, a bike shows up, in the 'promo' webpage the tracker was wedged under a bike saddle.

https://buy.thetrackr.co/br/07/?utm_source=GU&utm_medium=GU&utm_campaign=GU&aff_id=1160&creat_id=321&clk_id=23916946&sub_id=188427

but, after a little more diggin' the battery life is obviously a killer issue, maybe a month, how would you know ?

and without reasonable geographical support via other users, updates on movement of the device just wouldn't happen

nice idea, could be developed onto other platforms, i eagerly await vers 5

pass the popcorn

beeps