I am looking for a battery powered 3g GPS vehicle tracker and found this one on eBay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/173740012163
It all seems pretty legit, I just wanted some opinions on this tracker? Does it look solid?
GPS Vehicle Tracker
LJack17378 on 18/01/2019 - 11:40
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Just a commodore
If it's "just a" anything, why bother wanting to know where it goes if it gets stolen? Let them smash it and write it off
Wouldnt get much from it being written off…
Why don't your smartphone to look up where you are?
Who you low jacking?
Tracking the ex-wife?
Focus on being a better partner perhaps…
So many dumb assumptions in one comment.
Hire a PI. Can your GPS Tracker produce those juicy snaps a PI will send you in a brown envelope?
I made a post thats related to this a few months back
Thanks for linking to it. Very helpful. Cheers.
With these cheap Chinese made trackers, they are usually all clones of TK-Star when it comes to software/firmware. But be warned, most of them will say "Quad band" but they mean on 2G (now non-existent in Aus) and their 3G will only be either Optus/Voda bands or Telstra bands.
Battery life is dependant on usage. If you want it to upload every day and every 60 seconds, It's going to die pretty quickly.
I used one similar to this when I was trialling different trackers, and they are not to bad if you only want to track general use and locations. Not to bad if it supports geofencing and you want to monitor if your equipment moves out of a certain area.
I believe it does have geo fencing and a 10,000 mAh battery which should last a while im thinking? I won't have it updating that often but maybe once an hour?
Yeah, I had a 7500mAh one and I would set it to sleep unless it sensed movement. They said 90+ days out of it, and it was nowhere near close to that.
Get on some forums to look for more commands you can send to it. Sometimes they support more or sometimes less than what the booklet that comes with it says.
These things are all basically close of each other, they are virtually the same chipsets and firmware.
If you are using it to track your own car, I would bypass the battery unit and get a hard wired unit. The battery ones are only good at tracking on and off items or if you needed to track different vehicles at alternative times and need the removable version.
And make sure you only track your own vehicles, not anyone else’s.
Ill check out those forums - thanks for that!
I'll also look at the hard wired ones, but I'm thinking a battery one could be handy if I wanted to track something else
Don't forget that Telstra flags 3G network shutdown as early as 2020. Maybe followed by other network providers.
4G versions of these arent available from what I've seen? And personal experience with Vodafone I was in a rural area and the 3G worked better than the 4G lol so they may keep it?
Update: Just realised the seller accepted a best offer - what do you guys think I should offer for this product?
And now it seems he has an auction for the product - might keep an eye on the auction!
What car do you have?