Thursday, 23 April 2015

RANT Alert

If you are going to book a cab please come out to your driver on time.

Drivers understand that sometimes things take longer 5 mins,10mins is completely understandable, but don't come out 20mins late and tell the driver the cans no longer needed, it isn't going to go down well.

End of rant 

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Car tracker installed

So,
I have installed a tracker in my car in the event it gets stolen.
It is an old android phone with a hard wired charger fed directly from the car battery running mycartracks app.
It has a pay as you go sim from EE, which thanks to a Xmas promotion gives me 100mb a month allowance free with no obligation to top it up.
So it is hidden behind the dashboard doing two things:

Firstly and primarily it is a tracker, I can send it a text message with a code and then log in to the website and its current position will be displayed along with speed and direction.

Secondly it also logs all routes/journeys carried out in the car so in the event that I need to check if I was somewhere I have a record.
Yes I could buy a dedicated tracking system but I had sitting in a drawer not being used so I thought I'd try it out.