We're fostering a dog and it recently ran away while with one of the prospective adopters, was missing for a week. We retrieved her 7 km from where we were sear

We're fostering a dog and it recently ran away while with one of the prospective adopters, was missing for a week. We retrieved her 7 km from where we were searching. After that I looked in to GPS trackers for pets and it's all either subscription services (and their implications on your data/privacy) or otherwise some cheap Chinese crap. I eventually found one of the cheap ones you could configure with traccar but to get that working took a lot of guessing and testing. The cool thing is the only command that works via the server is "change update period", so when it's at home it pings occasionally and when it's outside the geofence, traccar tells it to up the reporting rate. (Plus idle detection, so when her harness is hanging there's limited battery use) I'm glad to see an open solution like this, would have loved to set this up if I had the dog longer term. Our cats on the other hand, we never trained for a collar so this wouldn't work unfortunately