SPOT Trace Satellite Asset Tracker

After signing up online for extreme tracking and mounting it on the dashboard of my new car it works perfectly as an asset tracker. Battery life is formidable and the iPhone app is nice. Thoroughly recommended.

As the title says, on the dashboard of a car it's unable to track at 5min intervals. you'll likely get a track every 5mins for 20 or 25mins, then nothing for an hour or more, then you might get something again.

Not sure why this arrives with the batteries already in the device. The batteries in the device were totally flat 0.8v. A quick call to tech support revealed that power light green, then GPS light green then power light red means flat battery. This is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. No problem as there's another 4 in the box right? Wrong there are only four included and the description is misleading you there. This is a bit annoying as 8 lithium AAA batteries = £14 which is 15% of the product or around 7% once you factor in the service charge. Onto the service charge, it's not 10 euros a month as advertised on the website but 10 pounds. It's $10 USD in the US so I would advise setting a US address and you'll save yourself £34/year! Notwithstanding all the pain and unreasonableness above it seems to work fine.

Best money I have spent for a long time. Once you get logged on to the system sit back and watch it happen..

It didn't work

Excellent product, easy to install, works very well 90% accurate to the last location.

Habe das ganze jetzt seit gut 3 Monaten am Laufen. Tut was es soll. Batterien halten beim Tracking des autos (gelegentliche Nutzung, kein Pendeln) ca 3 Monate.

After Garmin's GTU 10 quit being supported, I went on a quest for a replacement for full time vehicle tracking. Unlike the Garmin, this relies solely on satellites, and does not need a phone connection, which is great for remote locations, and means that you really can find it anywhere. The computer interphase uses Google maps, and shows you an exact location (usually within about 30 feet on a bad day and within 5 feet on a good day). Not a lot of features here like a Garmin GTU 10 had, but basic locations work good. The last check in is sometimes not real recent, but I have never not got what I needed from it. Stand alone (not permanently hardwired) batter life is very good on 3 AAA lithium cells.If it is moving a lot, and reporting at 5 minute intervals I found about a month battery life. For stationary items, I am at over 6 months and counting. Waterproof (if not using external power) is a nice feature. Small enough to use pretty much anywhere. The annual fee is reasonable, and I would highly recommend this unit.

This tracker was perfect and did exactly what I needed it to. I experienced 2 bike thefts when I had it. The first time, I was able to recover my bike 2 miles from my house. Not sure what the footstep icons mean but somehow, when I got to my bike that day I tapped the footstep icon and it led me straight to the thief’s house by tracking his footsteps AFTER he got off the bike. I’m not sure how it did this but I was able to show it to the police and even they couldn’t believe it! Anyway, my recovered bike was still totaled, but the tracker did it’s job! The second time, I had a different bike stolen. Just the night before, I had taken the tracker off the bike to charge it overnight and that’s when it was stolen. I was highly disappointed at the timing of it all. I know without a doubt if I had the tracker on it, I would’ve recovered that bike too. I guess the lesson in all that is to just be mindful of when you’re charging it. Maybe charge it during the day when thefts are least likely to occur. Or buy the adapter cable that allows you to hook up the device to your vehicle’s battery so you never have to take it out. But that kind of takes away from the discretion of it all so use your better judgement. All in all, I love this device! I just ordered a second one for a new bike I purchased this week!

Simple et Efficace. Un excellent produit que je recommande vivement ( installé sur un bateau dont je veux connaître la position , et surtout les éventuels mouvements en mon absence) . Pamètrable à souhait , il m'indique chaque jour à heure fixe sa position , m'envoie un message ( sms, e-mails) des qu'il bouge , ( je l'ai ensuite paramètré pour recevoir une position à chaque heure quand il est en mouvement) , m'indique quand il s'arrête , et enfin m'informe du niveau de batterie quand les piles faiblissent . Bref, me semble tout simplement indispensable . A noter qu'il faut effectivement souscrire un abonnement annuel ( 120 euros environ) pour le fonctionnement .

Detecta los satélites a la primera y el grado de localización es p muy exacto, consumo de baterías muy muy pequeño. Aguanta lo que le eches, humedad, golpes etc etc