Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Machine Learning

Re:Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Ma... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:26PM (#26029396)

One of our dogs disappeared for two days. Then on my way home I got a frantic call from my wife that he had come home but his leg was in a bear trap.

Turned out to be a coyote trap and there was a plastic link on the chain that attached it to the tree or whatever, that he had chewed through then limped home on three legs. If not for that link, he'd probably have died out there since the person who set it was clearly not checking it every 24 hours as required by law.

Luckily he was big enough that the trap couldn't close tightly enough to damage his leg and he was running around fine by the next day.

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Re:Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Ma... by mattmoose21 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:07PM (#26032601)

Depending where you live contact information may be required to be permanently attached to the trap. Glad to hear your dog is okay.

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Re:Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Ma... by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:02PM (#26039242)

Each trap has a unique ID that should be traceable to an owner. We happened to know someone who worked for Animal Control and he was looking into it, but I don't recall how that worked out.

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Re:Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Ma... by jjeaff on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:02PM (#26032564)

Interesting, is the plastic link meant to make it escapable by animals larger than a coyote?

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Re:Localize your cat at home with BLE beacon, ESP32s, and Ma... by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:03PM (#26039255)

I don't know. I'd think that a coyote would probably escape the same way if so.

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