Using and Understanding the Tracks Feature

Location: "Animals" and "Mobs" tab

The "Tracks" feature allows you to see historical movement of your animals.

To use this feature, select up to 10 animals (in the Animals Menu) and click on 'Tracks' in the bottom action menu.

• By default, it will show you the tacks for those animals over the last 24 hours.
• You can extend this time period for a maximum of 7 days.
• You can go back in time to any date by adjusting the start date.
• The yellow lines have little arrows indication the direction of movement.
• The yellow diamonds show the location of the animal at the time when a status message was sent to the cloud (typically every 10 minutes but may be longer depending on communication cadence).

If your Neckbands use direct-to-cellular communication (instead of LoRa Communication via a Base Station) then you will see where stimulus was applied.

• The green audio icon indicates where the audio alert was delivered.

• The orange pulse icon indicates that BOTH an audio warning AND a pulse was delivered i.e. the orange pulse symbol means two things have happened - the audio warning was delivered for 5 seconds - the animal had not responded by moving away from the virtual fence, and then the Neckband delivered one pulse. All shown by one pulse icon.

Let's use an example to illustrate this:

• The animal walks straight across the virtual fence boundary and does not turn back.
• It just keeps on walking in a straight line.
• The Neckband delivers the audio warning, and because the animal has not responded, a pulse is delivered.
• Following the first audio/pulse pair, the pattern repeats, delivering two more audio/pulse pairs (3 audio/pulse pairs in total).
• Now the neckband stops taking any further action to contain the animal (assuming RTP is disabled).
• In the tracks feature, you will only see three orange pulse icons (the audio tone is implicit)!

Good to know:

The line between the yellow diamonds does not actually mean that the animal walked in a straight line. At least 10 minutes, and maybe much longer, has passed between each 'waypoint' and the animal likely meandered all over the place!

Unlikely, but may explain the unexplained:

The Neckband will "store" any stimulus events (audio warnings and pulses) in its internal memory and will send this to the cloud during its regular status message.

It is possible that many stimulus events have occurred during the communication cadence and that the internal memory of the Neckband filled up.

In such cases, we will simply 'lose' some of those events - they cannot be stored, and so they cannot be sent to the cloud.

So, if you do see some 'weird' tracks, then this might be an explanation.

Updated on: 19/11/2025