So, ive payed my spot subscription, ive done all of the online stuff, and ive managed send a message from it to all the right places. But, i dont know how to make it track me? Do they have to be left in tracking mode for a while before they send the first signal? What buttons do i press?

Cheers in advance
Ben

Press and hold the footprint button until it flashes. It takes up to 10 mins before it sends its first message - the message light flashes when this happens. Or hit the OK button and it will send a message straightaway.

If this doesn't work get onto spot - It took me a few goes and a few emails to get my account set up and working properly.

For Spot 2: Press and hold the tracking button until it flashes (the one with two boot prints on it). It'll emit a point every 10mins if it has a good enough signal

Edit: you wait 10 mins for a reply and two come along at once

Cheers for the help guys, but its a SPOT1 without the footprint button
Anyone got a SPOT1??

Ben98 wrote:Anyone got a SPOT1??

Ah, a SPOT 1 - I used to have one of those.

All you need to do is, er, erm.....



....hold the OK button for 5 seconds until the green light flashes every 3 seconds.

https://www.findmespot.com/downloads/SP ... _10_16.pdf

Ian wrote:

Ben98 wrote:Anyone got a SPOT1??

Ah, a SPOT 1 - I used to have one of those.

All you need to do is, er, erm.....



....hold the OK button for 5 seconds until the green light flashes every 3 seconds.

https://www.findmespot.com/downloads/SP ... _10_16.pdf

Yup, have done that, will it take a while to get its bearings before sending the first signal? It doesn't seem to show up on the tracking site?

Nailed it, thanks guys!

What they said.

Just seen this ....

Glad you got it working now Ben. It does track just a shame the Spot 1's didn't have a dedicated tracking button as it can get confusing at times.

I've got the same problem.

Gen 1 and it used to work but now won't track???

Wondered if they'd stopped supporting gen 1 or something?

Done everything right and not changed subscription since it was working.

On the Tuscany Trail I put the spot in my feedbag and had to manually press 'ok' every half an hour or so.

Planing on doing the same on the Navad 1000 next week - became a kind of meditative exercise in that it focused the mind on a simple achievable task every half an hour - Zen!

At some point I'll figure our what the problem is but for now it'll do.

I just turned the tracking on (OK button for 5+ seconds) and left it outside for a good chunk of time, checking the computer to see if it had sent, it did!
Cheers for the help everyone!

Tracking still works fine on my Gen1

Ok, two working means that it's definitely mine that's pooped.