u/hutzdani

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TL;DR

GPS needs to have timed Intervals options for both Power Saving and Normal usage modes and an OFF option in power saving mode.

OFF / 10min / 30min / 1hr / 2hr / 4hr

These times can be over ridden regardless of mode by clicking live tracking or introduce a "Get Location" button.

Most people will use these devices to FIND the pet if they think it's missing, I'm sure this could be achieved with a software update and would boost battery life considerably and look great on the sales pitch !

So my Cat 6 Mini arrived a day ago and my cat is currently locked down due to going missing for 13 days and had to catch him via an Apple Air tag and a humaine animal trap 4 roads away in the woods.

Power Saving Mode - customise SSID Radius its way too big by default - I live in terraced houses and have several WiFi Nodes 2 in the house and 1 in the garden.

WiFi certinally does not reach 5 house away either side of me.

If we are in power saving mode why are we pinging for GPS at intervals ?

We need to have the option to DISABLE GPS in power saving mode and only be able to override it by changing the settings or if we force live track mode or if the SSID drops off.

Once we are out of power saving mode we need to have an option to specify how often we "PING" GPS ( 10mins / 30mins / 1hr / 2hr /4hr )

This can be over ridden by going in for live tracking for the set time we selected at first set up.

My cats been in power saving mode since we got the collar and just over 24 hours we have lost 10% doing nothing.

I can't imagine what the system defaults are but I'd wager 30%+ a day if my cat was out as normal 8-12hrs a day.

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TL;DR

GPS needs to have timed Intervals options for both Power Saving and Normal usage modes and an OFF option in power saving mode.

OFF / 10min / 30min / 1hr / 2hr / 4hr

These times can be over ridden regardless of mode by clicking live tracking or introduce a "Get Location" button.

Most people will use these devices to FIND the pet if they think it's missing, I'm sure this could be achieved with a software update and would boost battery life considerably and look great on the sales pitch !

So my Cat 6 Mini arrived a day ago and my cat is currently locked down due to going missing for 13 days and had to catch him via an Apple Air tag and a humaine animal trap 4 roads away in the woods.

Power Saving Mode - customise SSID Radius its way too big by default - I live in terraced houses and have several WiFi Nodes 2 in the house and 1 in the garden.

WiFi certinally does not reach 5 house away either side of me.

If we are in power saving mode why are we pinging for GPS at intervals ?

We need to have the option to DISABLE GPS in power saving mode and only be able to override it by changing the settings or if we force live track mode or if the SSID drops off.

Once we are out of power saving mode we need to have an option to specify how often we "PING" GPS ( 10mins / 30mins / 1hr / 2hr /4hr )

This can be over ridden by going in for live tracking for the set time we selected at first set up.

My cats been in power saving mode since we got the collar and just over 24 hours we have lost 10% doing nothing.

I can't imagine what the system defaults are but I'd wager 30%+ a day if my cat was out as normal 8-12hrs a day.

Hey, I recently pre ordered the new Mini 6.

I have read we can't set GPS intervals ?

Is this true customisable setting would be great so that we can ping it when we need it and have a 2 hour ping update.

The site states 5 days battery but everywhere I look people are getting sub 2 days, is there some setting we can tweak to extend the battery life.

I don't need to know where my cat has been, I need to know where my cat is when he has not come back.

It would be great if the Bluetooth on the tracker worked like an Air Tag or Chipolo to save battery and update if it pings off a nearby phone and then we could manually update GPS only when we really need it.

Having live GPS tracking is great but cats can go wandering for 2+ weeks and afew days is really not going to cut the mustard when there is a whole bunch of other gimmick features running.

I don't need activity tracking or heart rate or sleep tracking.

Can we turn all this off and solely use it as and when we need it.

All the features are nice to have, but people by trackers so they can find lost pets not because the pet wanted an apple watch.

After reading several posts on Reddit and various other places it seems that the team is focused on selling gimmicky app stuff as opposed to core concentration on TRACKING READY FOR WHEN YOU NEED IT ! Especially with cats !

No fancy app features No sleep tracking No activity tracking No calories burnt

All a cat collar needs to do is :

Just Track with BT to conserve battery or within WiFi when you are not manually requesting a GPS fix / live mode