Meshtastic Pet Monitoring | Hackaday

Most industrial pet trackers require a subscription or community connection to operate. [Jon G Aguado] needed a greater approach and designed LIA, a Meshtastic collar tracker.

LIA makes use of a customized PCB containing a ESP32-S3, LoRa radio, GPS/GNSS receiver, and a cost controller for the 18650 or 5023450 pouch Li-ion cell powering the machine. Everything matches inside a 3D printed enclosure, and the machine is charged by way of a magnetic 4-pin USB pogo connector to extend climate resistance.

One of the neat options of this explicit tracker is that [Aguado] gave it two completely different energy modes. High energy will get a location repair each 30 seconds and has a pair of vibrant LEDs for visible help, low energy solely will get a repair each minute or so, and it will also be set to off, which is one thing we want extra machine producers remembered ought to be an possibility.

We hope anybody planning on utilizing Meshtastic and LoRa within the US is conscious of the issues surrounding FCC compliance, and if you wish to monitor your pet one other approach, possibly KineFox is an option?