Instructions - Spylamp2 - Third Party SIM

Spylamp2 User Manual and Set Up Instructions - Third Party SIM Card

Please note these instructions are for customers who have chosen to use the SIM card of a Third Party (and not the SIM card provided with each Spylamp purchase). If you choose to use the Spybike SIM, choose Spylamp2 - Spybike SIM

What is in the box?
Attaching the Spylamp to your bicycle
Charging your Spylamp
Using your Spylamp for the first time
Configuring/Setting up SIM
Configuring/Testing the tracking function
Tracking on the Internet
Controlling your Spylamp
Arming Spylamp’s Vibration sensor
Disarming Spylamp’s Vibration sensor
Resetting the Tracker
Controlling your Spylamp Remotely
Arming/Disarming remotely
Common commands
If the tracker is stolen
Responding to SMS messages
Flashing the light
Battery
Using the tracker as a light
Downloading new software
Support
Appendix list of all SMS commands for Spylamp

1. Whats in the Box

Inside the Spylamp2 box you should find :

The bicycle light casing containing the GPS tracker
Two seatpost clamps (large and small sizes)
2 Torx keys
USB cable
SIM Card
Rubber spacer
2 Lens screws

2. Attaching the Spylamp to your bicycle

Inside the box are two seatpost clamps. The smaller clamp will fit standard road-bike 27.2 mm seatposts. For larger seatposts (mountain bike) you can use the larger seatpost clamp and cut the rubber spacer as required and use the provided screws to secure the spylamp to your seatpost tube, for added security.

3. Charging your Spylamp

Spylamp comes with a USB cable. Plug this into a phone charger or computer to charge your Spylamp. (Phone chargers will charge faster, computer USB plugs do not deliver much power). Approximately 3 hours should be sufficient but overnight is best.

4. Using your Spylamp for the first time

Please make yourself a nice cup of tea or coffee and read through the steps below carefully before starting to configure your Spylamp tracker!

Choosing your Third Party SIM Card Provider

Your Spylamp will use the installed SIM card to send SMS/text messages and upload/download data to report its position online and respond to your commands. It is best that you select a low cost pay-as-you-go SIM plan for cost efficiency. Unfortunately, we are unable to advise you which is the best network provider in your area, simply because our customers are spread all over the world and we don’t have this knowledge. We do know, however, that the Spybike SIM that we supplied is very cost effective and competitive (10 SMS messages and unlimited data traffic and emails each month for USD4.50) and so we recommend that you do your homework to ensure you get a good deal if you look elsewhere. We negotiated the deal with our SIM provider exactly because our customers in some parts of the world were struggling to obtain a cost effective local SIM for their Spylamp devices.

Make sure that the SIM is on a network that supports 2G. Almost all networks support 2G, 3G and some 4G. Some countries no longer support 2G. Japan and Singapore do not support 2G.

Before using your chosen SIM in your Spylamp, please test it first in a mobile phone to ensure that it can send and receive SMS text messages OK.

5. Configuring/Setting up the SIM

Please note that the set up instructions vary depending on whether you are using the SIM card supplied with your Spylamp or if you are using a SIM that you have sourced yourself. If the former, please use the other instructions at Spylamp2 - Spybike SIM

Ensure your SIM card is activated, and insert the SIM into your Spylamp device.
Make a note of the telephone number associated with the SIM card you inserted into your Spylamp.
Reset the Spylamp, by pressing the small gold button under the red lens cover.
A small green network indicator light will come on. Wait 90 seconds
1. If the light goes off then the Spylamp has connected to the network successfully, and is ready to be used. OK! Please go the ‘Configuring/testing’ section of this manual for a step by step guide how to how test and familiarize yourself with the tracking functions.
2. If the light starts to flash regularly at 4 second intervals then the Spylamp could not connect. If this happens, we suggest that you try the steps 1 and 2 above, and see troubleshooting section below for more tips on page. It is always a good idea to put the SIM in an old phone and check it can send/receive SMS messages and browse the internet. Also try moving to a different location in case the network is not strong where you are for the SIM you have chosen.
3. Send the Spylamp an SMS message from your mobile phone to the mobile number of the SIM card that you installed in the Spylamp (you made a note of this at step
4. Send the SMS message settings
  - You need to do this within 5 minutes of carrying out step 4, as otherwise the Spylamp will have gone into sleep mode to conserve energy and it won’t respond to your messages immediately (it will wake up periodically every 5 minutes to check to see if it has received messages). If more than 5 minutes have elapsed, you should turn the Spylamp off and on again to wake it up.
5. The Spylamp will respond with a list of settings, these are not important now but we will look at this again later, but for now this means that the SIM card is working and Spylamp is able to respond. *please note SMS text messages are not always delivered immediately by the GSM network.
6. We now need to give the Spylamp your mobile phone number so that it knows who to text if it detects it is being stolen. Send your Spylamp an SMS message like as follows

Setphone1 +44789123456

(replace the numerical digits with your mobile phone number and including the + international dialling code is useful in case your bicycle/Spylamp are taken overseas)

The Spylamp will respond with a confirmation message and your SIM is now set up.

6. Configuring/Testing the tracking function

Obtaining the location of your Spylamp.

Go outside where your Spylamp can obtain a good view of the sky and turn the Spylamp's light on and off using the red on/off button. This will cause the tracker to ‘wake up’ and connect to the mobile network so that it is active.
Wait 30 seconds for it to connect to the GSM network
From your phone, send an SMS message whereareyou to the Spylamp
Spylamp will send back an SMS message, acknowledging your request and then attempt to obtain a GPS lock and return its coordinates. This will take between 15 secs and 5 mins depending on view of sky and number of satellites visible.

If your Spylamp obtains a GPS lock, it will send an SMS message with its latitude and longitude, which you can enter into google maps, and also a hyperlink which you can click through on a smart phone to take you directly to your Spylamp’s position.

If the tracker cannot obtain a GPS lock then it will return a less accurate location based on GSM triangulation. Many things can affect the ability to obtain a GPS lock but most important is the view of the sky. The tracker will work inside small buildings but dense materials like brick or steel will affect performance. In this case you will be sent a link that gives the position based upon the nearby mobile phone towers. This is only accurate to within a few hundred meters but will give you an indication of where the tracker is until it can obtain a GPS lock

7. Tracking on the Internet

Before we can set up live tracking, we need to send the tracker a couple of configuration SMS messages. The settings are based on the SIM card you chose

Please check the documentation that came with your local SIM to find the details for the APN to use for internet/gprs
If you cannot find your mobile network there then you can usually find it online (e.g. google “Vodafone Italy APN”) or by contacting the mobile network directly
Reset your Spylamp by pressing the gold reset button
From your phone, send the following 3 configuration SMS text messages (send these as three separate messages) to the telephone number associated with the SIM inside your Spylamp
1. setapn yourapn - with the words in bold being substituted with the APN number associated with your SIM. So, for example, if your APN was web.vodafone.it, the SMS you would send your Spylamp would be setapn web.vodafone.it
2. setuser youruser yourpassword - with the words in bold being substituted with your username and password associated with the SIM card. So, for example, if your user name was Spybike and your password was 100662W, you would send the SMS text setuser Spybike 100662W
3. setip 104.197.46.124.9201 (You must use these exact numbers. This is the address for our server)
Take your Spylamp outside and send the SMS message command: upload
1. The Spylamp will attempt to get a single GPS location and upload it.
Go to tracking page (the “Tracking” tab on the Spybike website) on your computer or mobile phone. You will need to enter the IMEI number as your unique tracker ID - this number will have been sent to your phone when using the settings and whereareyou SMS messages earlier
You can now view the location of your Spylamp on the website

8. Controlling your Spylamp

There are two ways to control your Spylamp when using a 3rd party SIM

Directly using the hardware (resetting, on/off arming and disarming only)
Remotely using SMS messages

9. Arming Spylamp’s Vibration sensor

When you park your bicycle you need to activate Spylamp’s vibration sensor so that you are notified if someone touches it. You can do this by:
- Step 1 - Holding down the on/off button at the back of the tracker for 5 seconds.
- Step 2 - Spylamp’s light will quickly flicker for 1 second to indicate the tracker is now being armed.
- Step 3 - Wait 30 seconds, and the vibration sensor is now activated.
When the Spylamp is ‘armed’, prolonged motion will cause it to wake up, send you an an SMS message/email to the phone/email address that you chose in Step 9 of the configuration process . When ‘armed’ and the Spylamp detects movement, it will begin uploading its location to the “Tracking” section at www.spybike.com at regular intervals. It will do this until 5 minutes after the vibrations stop.
What if you park your bike and forget to arm your Spylamp? Don’t worry, you can also activate the vibration sensor remotely - see the section below for details.

10. Disarming Spylamp’s Vibration sensor

Make sure you remember to disarm your Spylamp when you return to your bicycle or you will set the vibration sensors off when you start to ride!

Step 1 - Hold down the on/off button at the back of the tracker for 5 seconds.
Step 2 - Spylamp’s light will give 5 long steady pulses to indicate the vibration sensor is now being disarmed.
Step 3 - Wait 30 seconds, and the vibration sensor is now deactivated.

You can also disarm remotely - see section below.

11. Resetting the Tracker

There is a small gold flat reset button under the lens. Pressing this will reboot the tracker and force it to re-connect to the network. It will also cause the tracker to show the green connection LED light so that you can check your network connection.

12. Controlling your Spylamp Remotely

During the day to day use of your Spylamp, you will not need to to send SMS commands to your Spylamp.

Just arm and disarm it using the on/off button (holding down for 5 seconds)

However occasionally you may need to change settings. You can remotely tell your Spylamp what you want it to do by sending a series of SMS commands. When using the Spybike SIM, you are able to also use the Spybike “tracking’ platform on the website to control your Spylamp. With a 3rd party SIM you can perform the same function by sending SMS messages

It is important to note from the outset that to save battery life, Spylamp is not normally connected to the mobile network

Spylamp will not receive your SMS messages immediately unless you ‘wake it up’ by turning the light on and off (red button) or by pressing the gold reset button.

If you are not physically with your Spylamp, please note that Spylamp periodically ‘wakes up’ every 6 hours and will check to see if it has received any commands.

If no commands have been received, it will stay awake for 5 minutes and then it go back to ‘sleep’ to conserve battery life. This awake period is extended by 5 minutes every time a command is received. You can customize all these time periods by sending commands to your Spylamp but we recommend the defaults.

13. Arming/Disarming remotely

You can arm/disarm the motion sensors by sending the text command arm or disarm to your Spylamp. This means that if the worst happens, and your bicycle got stolen and you forgot to activate your Spylamp, you are still able activate it and find its location. You should note though that this is not as reliable as using the hardware directly to arm because SMS messages may be delayed and will only be received next time the tracker wakes up (up to 6 hours)

14. Common commands

whereareyou - Send me the current GPS location

settings - Send you common settings as stored in tracker memory

gprssettings - Send you common network settings as stored in tracker memory (APN, User etc)

reset - Reset to factory settings.

setwakeup - How often should the device wake. i.e. setwakeup 6 hours

setwaketime - How long the tracker stays connected after waking setwaketime 5 mins

setstatus - How often the tracker should 'check in'. i.e. setstatus 1 days

checkbattery - How much charge does the battery have left

arm/disarm - Turn the vibration sensor on or off

upload - Upload the GPS location once to the website

UPPER or lower case is not important but ensure there are no leading or trailing spaces

The setwakeup, setwaketime and setstatus messages are denominated in seconds, minutes, hours or days. e.g. setwakeup 6 hours, setwaketime 5 minutes, setstatus 7 days (or you can abbreviate setwakeup 6 h, setwaketime 5 m, setstatus 7 d).

We have listed all the commands (including some less common commands) at the end of this manual in the Appendix.

15. If the tracker is stolen

If your bicycle is stolen and the tracker was armed, you will receive an SMS text message to your phone as soon as vibrations are detected (if you have not activated the vibration sensor, you should send the SMS arm).

The Spylamp will then obtain a GPS lock and begin uploading its location to the online tracking service. By default, it will upload its location every 20 seconds.

You can look on the website and you will see a red line leading from where your bicycle was stolen to where it was taken to.

The Spylamp will continue to upload its location until 5 minutes after vibrations have stopped. So, if your thief gets home and puts the bicycle in the garage, 5 minutes later, it will then go back to sleep.

If the thief then rides your bike again tomorrow, you will receive another text, notifying you that it is on the move and then it will start tracking again. This will continue each time the thief uses your bike.

This is useful in case your bicycle is taken to a block of flats or placed somewhere where it cannot get a clear GPS signal and you are unable to pinpoint exactly where it is. The next time they ride your bike, you are notified straight away and you will be able to see where they go.

While the bike is not moving (asleep) it will enter low power mode and can last like this for weeks or months depending on the battery remaining.

If you send the tracker a SMS while it is asleep, it will respond to the text the next time it wakes or the next time the thief moves the bike or uses the bike light.

*NB : The tracker is completely disconnected from the mobile network until it wakes up.

16. Responding to messages

SMS text messages are sometimes not responded to straight away for a number of reasons :

The Spylamp will respond to SMS messages (sent via the [configuration] page) if it is connected to the network.
Using the default settings, the Spylamp will stay connected to the network for 5 mins after it wakes up (either from timer, button press or vibration sensor). It will respond to SMS messages during this time but afterwards will go back to sleep and disconnect from the network. It does this to maximize the battery.
If an SMS message is sent to the tracker while it is not connected to the network then it should receive this message the next time it connects. How this occurs is dependent on your local network provider. Most send through missed SMS messages within 30 seconds of connecting but sometimes it can takes several minutes. This varies between networks and current network load.
Sometimes SMS messages are not delivered immediately by the networks. This may be due to network congestion. Occasionally it can be hours before they arrive, although this is unusual. If in doubt, just send the message again.

*NB an easy way to ensure the tracker is connected when you want to change its configuration is to switch the light on and off. Wait 30 seconds to ensure that the tracker has connected to the network and then send it a SMS. When the message arrives the small green LED light will blink once.

Always check you have credit on your SIM card

7. Flashing the light

You can send the SMS flash to flash the light. This may be useful to test the tracker and even to find it in the dark. It is also a good way to check if the Spylamp is receiving your SMS even if it is not replying (ie you have no credit on your SIM card)

18. Battery

The tracker contains a lithium ion battery. This battery, when fully charged, should be enough to run the tracker for months. It is best to keep it well charged.

There are a number of factors which affect battery life, including how much you use the light, the network signal strength and the wakeup interval. See the SpyLamp section on the website setup page for more details.

You can see how much battery is left with the command checkbattery

The tracker will stop working at 3.35 volts
You will receive a low voltage warning at 3.5 volts
Over 4 volts represents a full charge

If the battery is below 3.35 v and you attempt to switch the light on, the light will flicker and switch back off. It is time to charge the battery. Please use the charger provided.

Replacement batteries are available to purchase from www.spybike.com

19. Using the tracker as a light

You can use the tracker as a light like a normal bike light. Please note that will use more battery. You can check your battery level online on the tracking page (Choose battery view) or by sending the SMS checkbattery to your Spylamp.

20. Downloading new software

The tracker can download new software from the online web server. This is useful for upgrading the tracker, fixing issues and making enhancements.

To download the latest version, send the text download

To download a specific version, send the text like download 1.3.0.1 (the version you want)

You can also download new software using the reset button and the light button.

Hold the light button down.
Now click the reset button (gold button under the cover) and release while keeping the light button down.
Keep the light button down for a further 5 seconds until the tracker flashes.
It will now start downloading.

Downloading takes approximately 5 minutes during which time the light will flicker and flash to indicate it is working. After it has finished, send the text settings to check the version that is running.

21. Support

Please send emails to support@integratedtrackers.com

22. Appendix list of all SMS commands for Spylamp

whereareyou - Send me the current GPS location

settings - Send you common settings as stored in tracker memory

gprssettings - Send you common network settings as stored in tracker memory (APN, User etc)

reset - Reset to factory settings.

setwakeup - How often should the device wake. i.e. setwakeup 6 hours

setwaketime - How long the tracker stays connected after waking setwaketime 5 mins

setstatus - How often the tracker should 'check in'. i.e. setstatus 1 days

checkbattery - How much charge does the battery have left

arm/disarm - Turn the vibration sensor on or off

upload - Upload the GPS location once to the website

help - Send me some common commands [????]

setstatusmode- ALL, WEB or SMS. Do you want a daily upload, SMS or both (default both)

flash - Flash the light

networkinfo - Send me local cell information for my mobile tower [??? do we need this where using SPybike SIM]

cellinfo - Send me local cell information for all surrounding mobile towers [????]

setdebug on/off - Causes the tracker to flash when it receives a text. Only for testing

setsensitivity - (3-30). 3 = highest sensitivity, 30 = lowest. Default = 6 ie setsensitivity 6

GPRS tracking commands (what are these??)

setapn - Set the GPRS APN ie. setapn myapn.com

setuser - Set the GPRS username and password ie setuser myuser mypassword

setip 104.197.46.124 9201 - Set the GPRS IP and port of our tracking server

setgprsinterval - Set the time in between tracking positions. ie setgprsinterval 20 seconds

download - Download a new version of firmware to the tracker ie download latest

These instructions are valid for the tracker at the time of writing. You can download new versions of software to your tracker from time to time when they are released. Because of this, specific functions may be added or changed.

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