NMHillclimber

Hey everyone! My wife would like to be able to see where I am when I'm riding (only when I'm riding on her iOS device. I think she kinda wants to see that I'm still moving when I'm late. I have no cell service where I ride. Any tech that can help me?

Thanks all! Chip

RCMoeur 

Find My. Built into iOS.

I will sometimes get texts from Dear Wife if I am "resting a bit too long" at the top of a climb or "could you get...?" texts if I'm near a grocery store or food place and I have bags/baskets.

Yes, the CIA/FBI/NSA/Five Eyes/everyone else is also using it to surveill me, but that's part of my clever plan to lull them into complacency. (Hey, CIA/FBI/NSA/Five Eyes/everyone else, it's called "humor". Try it sometime.)

And if I suddenly disappear without a trace, see above.

RCMoeur 

And now that I've actually read the message correctly...

Have her get an AirTag, activate it with her iOS device, and you attach it to your bike. Done.

(With same privacy issues as noted above.)

NMHillclimber

That might be just the ticket. I'll look into that, thank you!

NMHillclimber

No AirTag needs other devices to connect to..there's nothing out there. That would have been a cheap solution

Steve B.

"I have no cell service where I ride."

Steve B.

With no cell service your only option is a satellite service device, Garmin InReach, etc.... Not sure they can do continuous tracking. They can receive and send text messages, so perhaps when she is in need of a location, she could text and you could send a replay, which also sends location data. This is a pay to use service, $35 mos ?, cannot recall. Does she really need this ?

NMHillclimber

I don't think she really needs this but I'll look into that. Thank you,
No plain GPS that would work?

mschwett 

unlike other trackers, an airtag will work if it's near just about any apple device that has a connection at all. if there's literally no cell service, no internet + wifi, no nothing, then it won't work. but if, let's say, you rode past a parked car and someone sitting in it DID have cell service, the location should update. similarly, if you go into a store which has wifi, and someone in there has an iPhone. or other apple device, or a cafe with wifi and wired internet (again, even without cell service.)

if the ride locations do not have some frequency of buildings with internet, cell service, public wifi, etc, then the airtag won't work and nothing except a satellite communicator will. something like a garmin inreach/inreach mini/acr bivy would work in theory. seems like overkill, depending on the level of concern.

NMHillclimber

That look like a solution Steve, $15/mo maybe just during the summer isn't bad. I ride less and closer in the winter. Her call!

NMHillclimber

Umm thanks. I see where I stand. I told her $400 and $15/mo and we could just do the subscription during the season. She said what? If you get run over you get run over

Steve B.

Garmin and Hammerhead devices have a Live Track function that in Garmin, uses a phone app and then cell service, on HH uses a SIM card. Both need cell service to transmit location data.

Deal4Fuji

and it's free

Tourist in MSN

A plain GPS only receives signals from the satellites to determine location. Does not send any signal out. (That way you do not have to worry about FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)

NMHillclimber

No, no parked cars, buildings, apple devices. this won't work

howaboutme

I'm not an apple person but I assume apple people still use Google Maps. If so, just share your location through live tracking and your avatar will pop up when she goes to google maps. It's not perfect but good enough. We use it to track our kids too.

Edit..Sorry, didn't comprehend there's no cell coverage.

BTinNYC 

No service, no comms.

BikeLite

Can you use trackleaders dot com for a tour and rent the device from them?

pdlamb

It's a mildly amusing illustration of how most of us live that we assume there's cell coverage everywhere, and many of us don't even think or know that our favorite gadgets run off the cell network.

But riding in the hills where the only available coverage is satellites? That sounds like some really cool riding to me!

(Like hikers in prehistoric times -- make sure you tell your wife or park rangers where you're planning to ride before you leave!)

Tusk

SPOT Trace Satellite Tracker with GPS | Saved by SPOT | US (findmespot.com)

$130.00 unit purchase, $120 per year OR $12.50 per month as needed.

RB1-luvr

I think the upgraded Strava can do this. Not sure how much the subscription cost is.

Iride01 

SPOT is another satellite tracking service that you might look into. Little less upfront cost that Garmin inReach depending on what device and extra features you get. But still requires a subscription service.

https://www.findmespot.com/en-us/pro...pot-gen4-plans

When I had a sailboat myself and several of my other sailing friends used them. You give the people a URL link with a code and then they can see your location by going to the site with any internet browser they care to use. It worked great for us and our family and friends to see locations even when we were more than 100 miles offshore in the Atlantic.

BTinNYC 

My bit of rural NY is only 150 miles from NYC and there's no cable TV or fast internet. But about 15 miles SW of us is The Land That Time Forgot, where there's long stretches of backwoods county roads with no homes, no farms, no buildings and no electricity or telephone lines, just trees...It could be central Maine. A lot of it has become State Forest land by default.

datlas 

Agree that short of a satellite enabled TWO-WAY communication (like SPOT above) you are out of luck if no cellular service.

Steve B.

Thread tangent. How does private ? land become state forest ?. If not paying taxes it goes to a town or county, not state. Or the state can buy. State of NY does not acquire land by default.