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by wongarsu 701 days ago
Maybe a cheap $20 smart watch can be repurposed for that. You would need to shave the fur at one spot and fix the smart watch there. Then either use the normal smart tracker integrations or a custom firmware (e.g. there are at least two competing custom firmwares for the Colmi P8, one of them python-based). If you go with a custom firmware you also have access to the raw acceleration and gyroscope data which might be useful for detection.

Keeping anything attached to a cat is an issue though. Even as a collar it might be a bit bulky

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This is useful! Someone else mentioned PineTime which is pretty similar to the P8 and writing custom firmware in Python definitely sounds less daunting. I'll buy one since it's pretty cheap and see if Yuri can tolerate it on his collar. Thanks a lot!