Tractive GPS Dog Tracker and Home Assistant 

Cool, that's quite a clever idea!

That might be fun to put together actually. Probably not really needed because there's no way Biscuit would let me forget to take her for a walk though!

That’s a good idea, I’m going to set that one up myself. I’m always forgetting to charge it!

I hadn’t thought of that for some reason! I’ll try it out, thanks

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech we all have times like that, a bit too often for my liking! No problem, good luck 🤞

The alerts would be on the phone but only if both the tracker and your phone have a working data connection. Mountains can be a bit tricky for phone signal at times especially near the bottom

That's a good automation idea. Automated gates just for starters would be a good smart project, but tying them to a geofence is quite imaginative. My tracker has been working fine - the update frequency in Home Assistant isn't very live especially if you have the super-power-saving mode enabled. In live mode it's a couple of seconds behind realtime. There's a happy medium of more frequent updates at the expense of battery life, but I found I wanted to charge it as little as possible and would just enable live mode if I ever needed it. My contract is due up next week actually and I'm debating whether I still need the tracker - Biscuit is very obedient (or scared of being away from us) so I think it'd be an unlikely scenario for her to run off.

So i can keep the AC running if the dog stay at home, and keep a lamp on if it is at night

Not a bad idea actually, I’d not considered a reverse use of presence detection… I’d only thought of “if the dog has left…” sort of automations!

Ha, yeah that would be brilliant! She really doesn't like the GoPro on her harness!

If it's ever not on sale, just wait a few hours :)

No, 7 days is about correct for me too. The subscription service can be expensive, especially for short terms, but if you're paying for 2 years+ up front then it's quite reasonable in my opinion. It's certainly inline with the competition, don't forget you're basically paying for a mobile data contract with international roaming plus contributing towards running the cloud service backend. I'd love it to be cheaper, but it's difficult to see how it could be given what's included.

@@SpeakToTheGeekTech I purchased the subscription service to view my pet's location remotely, but the location is often not visible and occasionally I can see the wrong location.

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Oh wow, yes, you wouldn’t want to get that automation the wrong way around