Hi Greg. I’ve recently organised with Solid GPS to sell their products too. I did a lot of research before committing and it’s an excellent product and Aussie made. Bonus! Great product great people.
thanks Greg I ordered one last week and got it promptly. Just been doing some testing and familiarisation. Your review was very helpful and very well done thanks for providing the spreadsheet formulas. I love it btw if using google sheets rather than excel the formula for column D is simply =SPLIT(C2,", ") I would love a detailed explanation of the maths behind the column K formula, if possible Neil
Glad you found the review helpful Neil, thanks for your comment! Since the review was published, Solid GPS has updated the interface with some of the things I asked for like tooltips, hopefully other things will be coming soon! As far as the formula goes, to be honest I just Googled how to calculate the distance between two latitude and longitude points and this was the formula that came up! It worked so I didn't bother learning how the formula functioned other than seeing it's using trigonometry. If you looked up how the TRUNC, ACOS, COS and SIN functions worked you should get your answer. Hope this helps!
Fantastic review, I agree with many of the comments ypu made regarding the dashboard tracking... like many car owners my interest is in the event the car is stolen I need ro have instant updates to see where the car is to take prompt action. I will consider the product and hope the owners can improve on the dashboard features
Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! Yes hopefully they'll make those changes and make it an even better product! I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share the video on your social media - your personal recommendation is the most effective way of helping more people see it, which in turn helps me recoup my production costs. Cheers!
Great to hear, thanks for sharing! What size did you get, and what sort of battery life have you found you've got from each of them? In your experience is there anything I missed in my review?
The best critiqued and decisive review I have ever listened to: Hat’s off to you! I’m 64 and have listened to thousands. No wandering paragraphs of flotsam. Your suggestions were all spot on and so compact. As for the jiffy case, Yep it’s a home brew, but heh I’ll be mounting mine inside another plastic container that no one will suspect and that is the key, along with it seeing the sky or as close as you can. What is not sure is can the designers update the app to in turn download an updated firmware to the box if required? Maybe many of the issues you highlighted require a firmware update and have not been addressed because its not updatable! PS: Went to buy a unit. No Paypal or Bank transfers when you come to pay and as you are signing up for a year? Is it just renewed? We know how hard it can be to cancel a payment! I’ll call them instead, but a sale was not made today because of that, thanks Tony
Hi Tony thanks for your insightful comments and I'm glad to hear you found the review so useful! Given the device is always connected to the internet and communicating with their servers, I would be very surprised if they don't have the capacity to do an over the air firmware upgrade, however I can't be certain on that. As to the subscription, I've had the device for about 9 months so far so I haven't needed to renew a subscription yet, however I did have the SMS notifications enabled for a few months while I was preparing this review and cancelled it once I was done and had no problems doing that; so in my limited experience I feel you'll be ok. Hope you get something sorted over the phone, and don't forget to make sure you use that coupon code and get yourself some free tracking! 😁
We are just about to look into purchasing a campervan and came across this unit on Facebook of all places and to be honest if it's on FB how good could it be? I sent a few questions off to solid and within a couple hrs had my reply to all my questions 👍. Your UA-cam video was straight to the point and so easy to understand that I will probably purchase one when we sign the papers, for the mean time I could play with it in the other cars to familiarise myself. I would play around with maybe glueing some earth magnets to the case so I could mount it onto a metal surface, hopefully it wouldn't interfere with reception. Thanks again
Glad it was helpful Steve and yep their support has been great for me too! The magnets might interfere a bit, check with Solid GPS. Don't forget to use the coupon code when you buy it, as the 75 days free tracking gives you plenty of time to get familiar with it before you start using it in the new vehicle. Good luck!
@@TheMusingGreg bought it last week, shipped very quickly and had a few issues setting it up forgetting it needs a 4G signal, where I live only Optus available and Telstra is very hit and miss, but when I got it going I was impressed and it don't need a magnet to operate I simply chucked it in the rear wheel well in the boot and headed off to Adelaide. Pity the pings can't be adjusted but 10 mins is good enough, I'm very impressed with it's accuracy right down to the metre. I used your code and it's now up to Jan 1st next yr.
@@steveweatherly1965 Good job mate, glad you got a good deal! Emergency Mode gives you 2 minute tracking but only for 6 hours IIRC before it switches back to 10 minutes, to save battery life. Enjoy, and thanks for your support!
Splendid thanks so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! Please take a moment to share the video on your social media - your personal recommendation is worth a thousand attempts on my part to promote it through advertising!
We are just about to look into purchasing a campervan and came across this unit on Facebook of all places and to be honest if it's on FB how good could it be? I sent a few questions off to solid and within a couple hrs had my reply to all my questions 👍. Your UA-cam video was straight to the point and so easy to understand that I will probably purchase one when we sign the papers, for the mean time I could play with it in the other cars to familiarise myself. I would play around with maybe glueing some earth magnets to the case so I could mount it onto a metal surface, hopefully it wouldn't interfere with reception. Thanks again
Glad it was helpful Steve! Yes Solid GPS' customer support is very prompt! Good idea to get it ahead of time and have a play around with it, if you use my coupon you get two and a half months before your tracking fee kicks in, which gives plenty of time to work out the best configuration. So don't forget to add that in in checkout! I'm not sure if the magnets would interfere with the reception, probably not, but best to check with them. Which size tracker do you think you'll go with? Good luck!
@@TheMusingGreg I'll prob go with the cheaper one, I'm sure I can set a reminder every few months to recharge it if needed. I will certainly use your name when purchasing.
Good job, yeah I went with the standard one, 4-5 months is good enough battery life for me only using my van every few weeks or so. A bigger battery might make sense in a vehicle that's travelling every day. Yep don't miss out on that free tracking! 👍
Yeah I agree mate, for me it's not quite a dealbreaker given the good price and battery life, and I don't usually need it for my caravan; but there are definitely times I'd prefer it to be 15 seconds or something.
@@TheMusingGreg That’s the first place a thief would look. Needs to be able to be buried in the body of a bike so it can’t be removed without stripping at least some covers.
@@paddydivers3136 Yeah look I guess you could remove the seat and attach it under there. It could also go inside a sealed plastic bag. I agree having it weatherproof would be better, but this might be a workaround.
Thanks for the video. If I turned on watch dog mode when parked, do I need to turn off before driving out? Otherwise, it will sent notification the tracker has left the boundary. I only want to use this for security purposes.
Hi mate, thanks for the comment. It completely depends what you want it to do. When you exit the ~50m boundary, watchdog mode will: 1) turn itself off, 2) turn on Emergency Mode and 3) send you a notification via app and email (and SMS if enabled). If you want to receive an alert whenever the vehicle leaves that boundary, then you would need to turn watchdog mode on; however if you ONLY want to receive an alert if you're not driving it when it leaves the boundary, then yes you would need to manually turn watchdog mode off before you drive the vehicle away. Let me know if you need any other clarification.
Honest answers are all I give on my channel mate! 😉 I don't think there's a hurry, I'm not aware the coupon ever expires so as far as I'm concerned take your time. The only factor could be if Solid GPS decides to turn it off for some reason. I hope that never happens, but that's not in my control if it does.
Hi Greg. I’ve recently organised with Solid GPS to sell their products too. I did a lot of research before committing and it’s an excellent product and Aussie made. Bonus! Great product great people.
Hey great! I'm sure they'll sell really well for you! 👍
thanks Greg
I ordered one last week and got it promptly.
Just been doing some testing and familiarisation.
Your review was very helpful and very well done
thanks for providing the spreadsheet formulas. I love it
btw if using google sheets rather than excel the formula for column D is simply =SPLIT(C2,", ")
I would love a detailed explanation of the maths behind the column K formula, if possible
Neil
Glad you found the review helpful Neil, thanks for your comment! Since the review was published, Solid GPS has updated the interface with some of the things I asked for like tooltips, hopefully other things will be coming soon!
As far as the formula goes, to be honest I just Googled how to calculate the distance between two latitude and longitude points and this was the formula that came up! It worked so I didn't bother learning how the formula functioned other than seeing it's using trigonometry. If you looked up how the TRUNC, ACOS, COS and SIN functions worked you should get your answer. Hope this helps!
Fantastic review, I agree with many of the comments ypu made regarding the dashboard tracking... like many car owners my interest is in the event the car is stolen I need ro have instant updates to see where the car is to take prompt action. I will consider the product and hope the owners can improve on the dashboard features
Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! Yes hopefully they'll make those changes and make it an even better product! I'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share the video on your social media - your personal recommendation is the most effective way of helping more people see it, which in turn helps me recoup my production costs. Cheers!
Great video. I have 3 of these for about 2 years and found them to be great.
Great to hear, thanks for sharing! What size did you get, and what sort of battery life have you found you've got from each of them? In your experience is there anything I missed in my review?
The best critiqued and decisive review I have ever listened to: Hat’s off to you!
I’m 64 and have listened to thousands. No wandering paragraphs of flotsam. Your suggestions were all spot on and so compact. As for the jiffy case, Yep it’s a home brew, but heh I’ll be mounting mine inside another plastic container that no one will suspect and that is the key, along with it seeing the sky or as close as you can.
What is not sure is can the designers update the app to in turn download an updated firmware to the box if required?
Maybe many of the issues you highlighted require a firmware update and have not been addressed because its not updatable!
PS: Went to buy a unit. No Paypal or Bank transfers when you come to pay and as you are signing up for a year? Is it just renewed?
We know how hard it can be to cancel a payment!
I’ll call them instead, but a sale was not made today because of that, thanks Tony
Hi Tony thanks for your insightful comments and I'm glad to hear you found the review so useful!
Given the device is always connected to the internet and communicating with their servers, I would be very surprised if they don't have the capacity to do an over the air firmware upgrade, however I can't be certain on that.
As to the subscription, I've had the device for about 9 months so far so I haven't needed to renew a subscription yet, however I did have the SMS notifications enabled for a few months while I was preparing this review and cancelled it once I was done and had no problems doing that; so in my limited experience I feel you'll be ok.
Hope you get something sorted over the phone, and don't forget to make sure you use that coupon code and get yourself some free tracking! 😁
We are just about to look into purchasing a campervan and came across this unit on Facebook of all places and to be honest if it's on FB how good could it be? I sent a few questions off to solid and within a couple hrs had my reply to all my questions 👍. Your UA-cam video was straight to the point and so easy to understand that I will probably purchase one when we sign the papers, for the mean time I could play with it in the other cars to familiarise myself. I would play around with maybe glueing some earth magnets to the case so I could mount it onto a metal surface, hopefully it wouldn't interfere with reception. Thanks again
Glad it was helpful Steve and yep their support has been great for me too! The magnets might interfere a bit, check with Solid GPS. Don't forget to use the coupon code when you buy it, as the 75 days free tracking gives you plenty of time to get familiar with it before you start using it in the new vehicle. Good luck!
@@TheMusingGreg bought it last week, shipped very quickly and had a few issues setting it up forgetting it needs a 4G signal, where I live only Optus available and Telstra is very hit and miss, but when I got it going I was impressed and it don't need a magnet to operate I simply chucked it in the rear wheel well in the boot and headed off to Adelaide. Pity the pings can't be adjusted but 10 mins is good enough, I'm very impressed with it's accuracy right down to the metre. I used your code and it's now up to Jan 1st next yr.
@@steveweatherly1965 Good job mate, glad you got a good deal! Emergency Mode gives you 2 minute tracking but only for 6 hours IIRC before it switches back to 10 minutes, to save battery life. Enjoy, and thanks for your support!
Top-notch review, very comprehensive & well presented, told me all I need to know without too much waffle or BS. 👍👍
Splendid thanks so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! Please take a moment to share the video on your social media - your personal recommendation is worth a thousand attempts on my part to promote it through advertising!
We are just about to look into purchasing a campervan and came across this unit on Facebook of all places and to be honest if it's on FB how good could it be? I sent a few questions off to solid and within a couple hrs had my reply to all my questions 👍. Your UA-cam video was straight to the point and so easy to understand that I will probably purchase one when we sign the papers, for the mean time I could play with it in the other cars to familiarise myself. I would play around with maybe glueing some earth magnets to the case so I could mount it onto a metal surface, hopefully it wouldn't interfere with reception. Thanks again
Glad it was helpful Steve! Yes Solid GPS' customer support is very prompt! Good idea to get it ahead of time and have a play around with it, if you use my coupon you get two and a half months before your tracking fee kicks in, which gives plenty of time to work out the best configuration. So don't forget to add that in in checkout! I'm not sure if the magnets would interfere with the reception, probably not, but best to check with them. Which size tracker do you think you'll go with?
Good luck!
@@TheMusingGreg I'll prob go with the cheaper one, I'm sure I can set a reminder every few months to recharge it if needed. I will certainly use your name when purchasing.
Good job, yeah I went with the standard one, 4-5 months is good enough battery life for me only using my van every few weeks or so. A bigger battery might make sense in a vehicle that's travelling every day. Yep don't miss out on that free tracking! 👍
Thank you for this great review. Pity i didnt find you before i bought it so i could use your code.
Oh shame! Glad you enjoyed the review, and hope you're getting good use out of the tracker!
Good on ya Greg, great review. Just bought one.
Good stuff, hope you like it! Did you use my coupon and get your 75 days free tracking?
My main deal breaker is the 2 minute signal intervals
Yeah I agree mate, for me it's not quite a dealbreaker given the good price and battery life, and I don't usually need it for my caravan; but there are definitely times I'd prefer it to be 15 seconds or something.
Thanks. Exceptional review.
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching! Did you decide to get one?
@@TheMusingGreg based on your review - yes. Will use your code. Thanks again
Good job thanks! 👍
Great review. Well done!
Thanks very much glad it was helpful! 👍 Please remember to share with your social media friends! 🙏
Nice work Greg
Well done
Thanks mate, glad it was helpful! Did you decide to get one?
Yeah, missed out on your code tho.
Should’ve watched your vid before purchasing
Still stoked tho
Happy dayz
Shame! Not to worry you've still got a good product! Enjoy! 👍
Cheers cob
Keep up the good work
Excellent review as usual
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback! 👍👍
Awsome help thank you
No problems mate, did you decide to get one or did it make you decide not to? 😄
Found this review because I want to put a gps on my bike, but shocked it’s not weather proof. How hard could it be to have sealed the box
Yeah it's a shame especially for a bike, although you should be able to put it under the seat or in the helmet box or something like that.
@@TheMusingGreg That’s the first place a thief would look. Needs to be able to be buried in the body of a bike so it can’t be removed without stripping at least some covers.
@@paddydivers3136 Yeah look I guess you could remove the seat and attach it under there. It could also go inside a sealed plastic bag. I agree having it weatherproof would be better, but this might be a workaround.
Thanks for the video. If I turned on watch dog mode when parked, do I need to turn off before driving out? Otherwise, it will sent notification the tracker has left the boundary. I only want to use this for security purposes.
Hi mate, thanks for the comment. It completely depends what you want it to do. When you exit the ~50m boundary, watchdog mode will: 1) turn itself off, 2) turn on Emergency Mode and 3) send you a notification via app and email (and SMS if enabled). If you want to receive an alert whenever the vehicle leaves that boundary, then you would need to turn watchdog mode on; however if you ONLY want to receive an alert if you're not driving it when it leaves the boundary, then yes you would need to manually turn watchdog mode off before you drive the vehicle away.
Let me know if you need any other clarification.
@@TheMusingGreg Thanks for the coupon!!! I've bought it.
@@presentelaw Fantastic mate, glad the video helped your decision! Enjoy your 2.5 months' free tracking!
A+++++ video 🇦🇺
Cheers mate glad you found it helpful! Did you end up buying one?
@@TheMusingGreg No not as yet 👍
No worries, make sure you use that coupon when you do! No point paying unnecessarily for tracking! 😉
@@TheMusingGreg With a honest answer how long will the coupon code be available for ?
Honest answers are all I give on my channel mate! 😉 I don't think there's a hurry, I'm not aware the coupon ever expires so as far as I'm concerned take your time. The only factor could be if Solid GPS decides to turn it off for some reason. I hope that never happens, but that's not in my control if it does.
Awesome Greg. About to buy 3 thanks for the info
Fantastic mate, glad it was helpful. Enjoy your combined 225 days worth of free tracking with that coupon! 😄😄