See which collars a Handheld Receiver hears, follow one on foot, and set the receiver's radio.
Find a Handheld ReceiverSwitch on the Handheld Receiver and hold it near this computer.
The browser's own list looks like this
CollarFND-DDCE
CollarFND-A41C
CancelPair
Which one is mine?The list shows each receiver by its Bluetooth name, CollarFND and then its own ID: Handheld Receiver DDCE is CollarFND-DDCE.Nothing in the list?The receiver is off, or too far away. Press Cancel in the list, switch the receiver on, hold it near this computer and look again.
This browser cannot reach a Handheld ReceiverUse Chrome or Edge on a computer or an Android phone. On an iPhone, use the CollarID app.
How to connect
1Switch on the Handheld Receiver and hold it near this computer.
2Press Connect receiver. Your browser shows a list of the receivers nearby.
3Choose your receiver in the list and press Pair.
Keep this page open while you search. If you close it, or the computer goes to sleep, it stops listening.
If the receiver will not startPut its software back over a USB cable
An update that stopped part-way can leave a receiver with nothing to start. It is not broken. It takes its software again over a USB cable, from this page.
1Connect the receiver to this computer with a USB cable.
2Press its reset button twice, quickly. A drive named ELECROWBOOT appears on the computer. The button is inside the small hole beside the USB socket: reach it with something thin and pointed, such as an opened paper clip.
3Press Repair receiver and choose that drive. The page puts the right software on it.
Without the Repair buttonDownload the file for your receiver and drag it onto the drive. The receiver restarts by itself.
Configure
Handheld Receiver
Not connectedChanges not applied yet
Share your location?Share where you are when the Handheld Receiver hears a collar? It helps the owner find a lost collar.
Collars heard
Connect to your Handheld Receiver to start listening.
Some collars keep their location private. Load the keys for your collars to see where they are. Loading needs internet, so do it before you go. Keys stay in this browser tab until you close it.
On the Handheld Receiver
Not connected
Your collars' keys go on the receiver when you connect while signed in, so its own screen shows their locations too.
The receiver forgets its keys when it is turned off. They load again when you connect while signed in.
If a receiver that keeps keys is lost, renew your collars' keys.
No answer from the Handheld Receiver. Keep it on and near, then try again.
This receiver's software holds 8 keys and forgets them when it is turned off. Update it to keep more.
Keys in this browser
No keys held
Connect the Handheld Receiver to put the keys on it.
With sharing on, what the Handheld Receiver hears goes to CollarID: a collar's own reports, and each lost collar signal as a sighting, so the collar's owner can see where and when it was last heard, even without a position.
Send what the Handheld Receiver hears to CollarID.
Nothing waiting to send
Some older reports were not kept because the Handheld Receiver was full.
After CollarID has them, the Handheld Receiver forgets reports it has sent.
No answer from the Handheld Receiver. Keep it on and near, then try again.
Your location is added to each lost collar signal the Handheld Receiver hears.
When this computer has no internet, the sightings are saved in this browser and sent later.
Only people who can see a collar see where it was heard.
For specialists: every signal exactly as the receiver passed it on, decoded here, and how this connection is doing.
Signals heard0
Collars0
Last signal—
Signal to noise—
Collar reports sent0
Bluetooth packet size—
The Bluetooth link is running slowlyThis computer and the receiver agreed on the smallest packet size, so larger signals arrive in pieces. Everything still arrives, only more slowly.
Signals heardNewest first. Pick one to see it in full.
Time
Collar
Kind
Bytes
dBm
SNR
What it says
Sent
No signals yet. Connect a Handheld Receiver and wait for a collar to send.
The signal in full
Pick a signal in the list.
Other signals
Ping test
For the workbench: the Handheld Receiver answers the next signal of the collar picked in the list, and a collar built for the test answers back. It stops by itself after 10 minutes.