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Oh great! Someone (Garmin?) used to have a fully off grid group locator like this, but they stopped selling it pretty quickly. This kind of thing is very useful
by aeturnum 2y ago
Oh great! Someone (Garmin?) used to have a fully off grid group locator like this, but they stopped selling it pretty quickly. This kind of thing is very useful when cell coverage is poor (i.e. put one on your dogs collar). There are times when you can't rely on the cell network and, for those cases, these kinds of devices are super useful. I don't really care for the "party" features but if I can buy 4 of them and each one can display how to get to the other device, it would be amazing!
- sdoering 2y agoThat’s actually a great idea. Especially as one is already cheaper than those yearly subscriptions for a dog tracker (at least in Germany). Sadly they are a bit too big to put on our one cat that always roams a bit far. ;-)
- loulouxiv 2y agoThe radio has a range of max 1km. If there are no other devices in range to extend your reach by mesh routing, you will quickly lose track of your pet... Maybe with a lower band radio and/or a Lora-like transmission technique these could have been made with a higher range but 1km seems ok for a festival setting
- aeturnum 2y agoThere are use cases where 1km is too short (and Garmen does make dedicated, multi-gps trackers for hunting with dogs), but for many run of the mill use cases (i.e. losing your dog on a hike) it seems great.