We thought we d share it along with some easy steps you can take to be like lowell and never lose your car again.
Can you use tile mate to track a car.
While the idea of using tile to recover a stolen vehicle might be a stretch it can still be a helpful tool in finding a car if you ve forgotten where it is parked.
Bluetooth location tracking device.
Here s what you can do.
Find your lost car quickly with the tile app.
Your tile needs to be within the standard bluetooth range of a device that has location services in order to communicate its location to the app.
After you have purchased your tile download the app to your apple ios or android device and then simply pair your tile to your device.
It happens to all of us and it s not always a result vacation brain tile community member lowell wrote to us about how he used tile to find his lost car.
Track your car with tile s tracking device.
The average time it takes for the location of a motor vehicle to be updated after it s marked as lost is just 9 minutes making your tile a pretty effective lost item tracker.
Tile is a tiny bluetooth tracker and easy to use app that finds everyday items in seconds.
Almost anything can be tracked including stuffed animals imagine your daughter has a stuffed teddy and youʼre.
Once your device is paired use your app to find your items quickly.
Doing so will at least ensure.
The tile itself does not use gps.
Once you have paired your tile place it somewhere in your car where you are sure it will be safe.
This means tile cannot track objects as they move in real time unless there is a device within range moving with it.
Activate a tile specifically for you car and leave it there.
Tens of thousands of tile community members use tile to track their own.
The tile mate is the cheapest entry in the tile lineup but still comes with 200 feet of range.
People use tile to track all sorts of objects like keys wallets cars or laptops.
So he decided a fun project would be to put a tile in his wife s car to track it.
After purchasing your tile download the app and pair your device.
Given that it s using bluetooth the range isn t great for car tracking but the tile s app can network with other.
Place a dedicated tile on your car.