Onboard Gps locator (Thief catcher)

Here’s one that could be cut down, 5v supply small form factor…

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253227084373

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I wonder how well its gets sat acquisition…

Bought one in the name of science… I’ll let you know.

Most one the cheap trackers don’t use gps at all. They triangulate the position from nearby cell towers.

The one I got didn’t even have the gps chip in it (and I’m sure all the other cheap ones don’t either).

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Wow, so much I don’t know about these :). That kind of sucks, I mean GPS isn’t all that accurate but it likely more accurate than signal triangulation.

The first link I posted at the top is for a tracker I have that works perfectly… cheap nasty functional Gps accurate.

Mine is dead accurate, like scary accurate…

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Cool, Im gonna try and lay this out in visio with a tutorial for everyone so I may be PM’ing you for info and you too @amazingdave

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Or with something like the Unity, which has a smart switch build in, run that inline to NO/ O so that when you plug in Xt90 key, all turns on, but you could disable via gps text… Might be an interesting feature we could try…in the name of science. Plus, im sure there are other ways we could integrate it, its size is just slightly large but but seems to be thin… Could be interesting.

I hope no one had their board taken from them, but is always nice to be safe instead of sorry, plus a cool little party trick and a way to assure S/O that your investment is safe :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: