Does anyone selfhost a tracker for a dog or cat? A reputable company charges 5€-13€ per month for it. I’m not sure I want to pay that for more than 10 years
Does anyone selfhost a tracker for a dog or cat? A reputable company charges 5€-13€ per month for it. I’m not sure I want to pay that for more than 10 years
Not self-hosted, but an AirTag on a collar would be much cheaper than that subscription fee. You can find collars specifically for holding AirTags.
Imo, such trackers aren’t useful for that. No other phone will report in which forest the dog is
Exactly right, anyone recommending those doesn’t understand how they work.
OR anyone suggesting those lives in a city and doesn’t generally let their pets out near forests and therefore didn’t think of that use case.
In a forest, away from humans, under trees, you won’t have a signal to send SMSs or get a data connection either.
Your cell coverage must really fucking bad for you to say that.
It’s not, it’s just that forests are really bad for phone signals. Trees disrupting the signal, valleys and sides of mountains with no direct view of antennas and just remoteness in general. I’ve been in a lot of forests with no cell reception, that’s why you always go with an offline map and tell someone where you are going.
It’s not a case that one of the leading phone company in the world has a satellite emergency mode.
Seconded. And the more populated the area, the better the tracking is/will be.