Tracking Car With Phone

[Rekin]

Found this on OzHonda; (http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76263)

you have a Telstra network phone you can track where your car is for 55 cents per location check.

It is called "Whereis everyone". To set up it sends an SMS to the other phone. If they agree to the tracking you can continue to see where the other phone is on a sensis map for 55 cents. It is surprisingly accurate! Try it yourself.

I have found it finds others to within a street away - and it shows a pin point on the map where it calculates the phone to be.

I think it is more designed for teenie boppers to find each other when they go nightclubbing but it is also a very cheap car tracking option!

How? Put an old mobile phone in your car with a cheap $5 plan etc - (leave it on all the time) and if the car is stolen you can find your car! (well its approximate location - but like I said it narrows it down to within a street or two on a map). Sometimes better - it finds my house to about 50 metres.

Not as good as sat nav tracking devices but it is better than nothing and ghetto cheap!

The phone you are using to view the maps obviously needs to be good enough to access mobile internet but the phone you are tracking can be old school 10 years old - it doesn't matter at the tracked end.

Just be warned - if you do see your car outside some crook's house - go to the police - don't confront the thief yourself..

http://whereismobile.com.au/

http://whereismobile.com/features.php

and a video;

http://www.locatrix.com/pages/posts/wherei...australia11.php

[RUQ1KA]

Tried it looks promising,you need to set up a friends list kind of thing and add the other phone as a friend then you can look up its location.

Ill chuck it in my EA falcon anyway, anything to keep theiving %$#%^^ away from it:P

[nissanskyrice]

that and get a little sticker like the intel one that says satellite tracking inside I know it detracts from the look of the car etc but having that installed wont stop a thief but having that installed and a sticker to say the car is tracked might deter the thief in the first place.

[DRD-00F]

My car already has a sim card installed in it... I'm gunna check this out

[choyda]

It wil be interesting to see the results

[readyGO]

You'll need to constantly charge the old phone in the car.. right?

[Chris Rogers]

It wil be interesting to see the results

indeed.

ring me when you get a sec. (want to rip your car apart )

[somos]

Two very interesting DIY projects that show promise...

a) http://forums.performanceforums.com/forums...t-67142833.html

PIC16F876 connected to a 5110, and a GPS

b) http://cgi.ebay.com.au/YOU-CAN-BUILD-YOUR-...1QQcmdZViewItem

Search for "real time GPS tracking system" if link is down and look for the "digital download" result.