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| patrickl:
Amazing story! Hope you get it back in the end. @NiN^_^NiN, Several PDA's have indeed got both a phone and a GPS (my brother has a Mio A701 which has both) and some portable GPS units (like TomTom) can work as a carkit (does not have a phone on board for that though). On the other hand I haven't heard of a portable GPS or PDA that can go into tracking mode, but it would be a cool feature. |
| NiN^_^NiN:
All the tracking mode is when you send a SMS to the unit it goes into alert mode so it sends u the GPS co-ords so you can type them in on google etc. the alert is when the cars turned off it will send you the last position the gps had or when it looses signal. It updates u ever 1min or so depending on the setting I myself have built this into my carpc using a old nokia 3210 where when it recieves a sms the pc will poll the phone and read it and if its one of the commands it knows it will do what it needs to do in my case i've got it to turn on a relay to disable the car and send a gps position of where it is. I've got the same kinda thing i built at home aswell i sms home with a command to turn on the AC so its cool when i get home. I got a DIY sms controller kit for $50 best $50 i ever spent :) |
| patrickl:
A friend of mine once had a service truck of his company recovered with those GPS tracking things. They could completely follow where the car was going. They could even see where the tools where unloaded along the way. Amazingly most of the tools were already gone by the time the police got there, but the car was still fine. |
| ChadTower:
Fleet trucks have had that ability for 10-15 years. Of course, the units cost a hell of a lot back then, but pretty much as long as there have been car phones there have been GPS trackers in fleet trucks. I worked with one of the guys a while back that designed the first ones... according to him, they were active and present in the trucks long before any of the drivers knew about them. |
| Jess--:
nin do you have any details of how you hooked up your carpc with the 3210 or any code for it kicking around? |
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