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Oakie
3rd June 2016, 17:43
Anyone have any experience or opinion of these? (Silly me. It's KB ... everyone will have an opinion.)
http://techiefans.com/how-to-track-your-bike-in-case-of-theft-using-your-mobile-phone-en/?IM=A12B&TT=T02&utm_term=5441174&sxid=947yc49o1w2a
Katman
3rd June 2016, 17:50
It's a government plot.
R650R
3rd June 2016, 17:55
No. but did read about and research them after seeing on another tech blog recently. They are prob ok in Los Angeles or London but.....

The tracking aspect is crowdsourced from other mobile devices with the app installed. So if your 1199 Pangiale ends up in say Ruatoria its unlikely anyone in that town has a smart phone with that app installed AND withen wifi distance of your stolen item.

With such a small battery its not going to be a strong wifi signal either.

Perhaps in the future govt will mandate that all phones must have a similar app installed and always on and somethng like this will work. I still think all item should come with RFID tags embedded in them and passive readers connected to CCTV installed at vaious choke points around a city to detect stolen items...

I have a $160 GPS satellite tracker installed on one of my bikes, even that is only useful while in cell coverage....
Mike.Gayner
3rd June 2016, 18:39
Personally if my bike gets stolen I never want to see it again. I really have no interest in getting back a knackered recovered ex-stolen bike, and I'd rather it disappeared and was replaced by insurance.
AllanB
3rd June 2016, 18:48
Personally if my bike gets stolen I never want to see it again. I really have no interest in getting back a knackered recovered ex-stolen bike, and I'd rather it disappeared and was replaced by insurance.

Yeah hearing ya. I had a car stolen decades back - cops called months later telling me to pick up my piece of shit from Ashburton (stolen from Christchurch). It had been involved in a ahem, high speed chase .. after a smash and grab. Sorry sight when I arrived. WOF expired since being stolen, muffler missing bits of interior including part of the floor boards as during the chase the baddies had ripped out anything they could and threw it out the window at the police following. No engine coolant left - f-all oil etc. topped up it fired up with a jump start and a 'get out of jail' note from the police got me back to CHCHC. I think I killed some of my hearing on that trip back .....

She had been truly violated.
swbarnett
3rd June 2016, 19:33
Perhaps in the future govt will mandate that all phones must have a similar app installed and always on and somethng like this will work. I still think all item should come with RFID tags embedded in them and passive readers connected to CCTV installed at vaious choke points around a city to detect stolen items...
FUCK OFF!

We are already subject to FAR too much tracking as it is.
Akzle
3rd June 2016, 20:01
buy a 20$ cellphone and a 2 degrees sim card, phone half a dozen numbers in the middle east, leave the phone on the bike.

You now have the nsa watching your shit for you.
pzkpfw
3rd June 2016, 20:28
... So if your 1199 Pangiale ends up in say Ruatoria its unlikely anyone in that town has a smart phone with that app installed AND withen wifi distance of your stolen item. ...

It's a fake, anyway.
R650R
3rd June 2016, 22:38
FUCK OFF!

We are already subject to FAR too much tracking as it is.

That shits not going away and there will be more whether we like it or not. We may as well derive some tangible benefit from it all...
R650R
3rd June 2016, 22:50
buy a 20$ cellphone and a 2 degrees sim card, phone half a dozen numbers in the middle east, leave the phone on the bike.

You now have the nsa watching your shit for you.

Hehehe I like your thinking....
Oakie
4th June 2016, 12:55
buy a 20$ cellphone and a 2 degrees sim card, phone half a dozen numbers in the middle east, leave the phone on the bike.

You now have the nsa watching your shit for you.

So I could probably order up a couple of Hellfire missiles on the miscreant from a drone strike then?
pritch
4th June 2016, 13:54
One aspect not covered in the ad is that once you locate the missing item some people will ask the :Police: for assistance. Said assistance may, or may not, be forthcoming.

There was businessman in town here had his laptop stolen. He had the software that locates the item and takes a photo of whoever turns it on then posts the picture to where you can downoad it from another device. He took the photo and the location to the copshop and he did indeed get his laptop back.

Other times though the :Police: may be too busy, or too tired, to bother with your problem. Although it probably does help if they immediately recognise the face in the photo. Odds are it's a member of their frequent flyers club.
Akzle
4th June 2016, 15:28
So I could probably order up a couple of Hellfire missiles on the miscreant from a drone strike then?

shit's expensive yo. And probably voids your insurance.
Brian d marge
4th June 2016, 21:57
Just leave ur iPhone under the seat ...job done

sent for a divine source
Brian d marge
4th June 2016, 21:58
buy a 20$ cellphone and a 2 degrees sim card, phone half a dozen numbers in the middle east, leave the phone on the bike.

You now have the nsa watching your shit for you.
Hey that was my idea

sent for a divine source
dman
13th June 2016, 14:53
buy a 20$ cellphone and a 2 degrees sim card, phone half a dozen numbers in the middle east, leave the phone on the bike.

You now have the nsa watching your shit for you.

HAHAHA, genius!