 No love for the Roameo Unit |
| Review Date: December 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: mdbiker, wash. d.c. |
The roameo is purported to allow easy and reliable tracing of your dog's location. My experience, to simplify, is that it rarely located the dog even when within a hundred feet and in the line of sight. The collar is somewhat cumbersome so the dog will not be happy either.
The receiver unit has to first get a satellite connection - that is also unreliable and slow ... then once a satellite connection is made it should then find the dog .... generally no luck.
Don't waste your time or money. |
As advertised
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| Review Date: November 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Daniel R. Case, Drunken Stupor, USA |
Scope of this review: I've written a separate review for the handheld, which is available via Amazon. This review is specific to the collar.
User's reality: It works fine.
What you should know: (1) The collar is rubber, or rubber-like, so it smells a little, but that might go away. (2) Collar adjusts differently from typical dog collars. Not a single-hole and prong system. Rather, the adjustments are on both sides of the collar, and the pieces screw together with plastic screws. The pieces have a seires of holes in them. You line up two sections and insert the screw pieces through the appropriate holes. (3) They give you a few extra screws, which is nice. The screws have a "male" and "female" end, so there's nothing exposed to stick your dog. (4) When you connect the pieces, they overlap a little bit. So it's not a single-line loop or circle. Instead, picture two half circles, with one having a slightly larger circumphrance than the other. Or mabye this description: Picture a typical dog collar that is very thick (just for explanation purposes). Picture it cut in half, so you only have a half circle. Now, split that half circle lenght-wise, right down the middle of the line. Then, flip the "inside" portion so as to create the missing side of the circle. Thus, the shorter piece connects inside the longer piece, which creats a slightly staggered collar, rather than a seemless smooth loop. (5) There are two boxes on the collar. You can see one in the photograph, which is the gps receiver. The other is larger, contains the battery, and is the clasp where you connect both sides of the collar (over-and-above screwing the peices together on the sides, as previously explained). In effect, there really isn't a "front" of this collar, like there is on typical dog collars. Rather, there are four, somewhat noticeable protrusions/things: the gps box, the battery/clasp box, and the two side connections of the collar sections. (6) There is NO loop for dog tags. However, the numerous holes for screws allows dogs tags to be connected via string or zip ties, which are not included. (7) If you're willing, you could probably severe the "guts" of the collar from the actual rubber collar sections, and try to connect them to a traditional collar. Between the gps box and the battery/clasp box, there is a rubber-coated wire. The wire runs on the inside of the collar in a channel that is molded into the collar sections. However, the channel is open (not enclosed), so the wire might droop down somewhat. If you use all of the collar sections (for a very big dog), then the wire probably will be stretched to its full length, and no drooping will occur. However, if you need a smaller size, then there is excess wire, because the positions of the two boxes are fixed. I have border collies, so I just use two sections of the collar (rather than the using the extra sections that make it longer). The drooping isn't really a problem or noticeable, it's just something to be aware of. (8) To change the battery, you have to undo the clasp, which separates two sections of the collar. Then, inside the external box is an internal box, which you have to open and remove the battery. This takes about 30 seconds each time, becuase of how the pieces fit together, which is probably to increase water-resistence. (9) You CANNOT charge the batteries while still inserted in the collar, so there's a lot of taking the collars on and off you dog, if you plan to use this as a primary collar. (10) I haven't tested the water-resistence yet, but by the design and feel, I certainly think that it would withstand typical spashing or rain. Total submersion might be a different story. |
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