Short setup guide for Reachfar gps tracker product family - how to set up your gps tracker to connect with a GPS realtime tracking server?
The RF-V GPS-tracker product family from Reachfar are still some of the best GPS trackers on the market. Reachfar GPS trackers can be used with many other realtime GPS tracking service platforms too. You can check the latest product family of Shenzhen Reachfar Technology Company Limited here. In this guide you we will teach you some details about the most important Reachfar SMS command instructions (short message service, text messages from mobile phones). With the SMS / text message commands from this manual you can connect your Reachfar GPS tracker to a GPS tracking server. Just let us know - is everything working fine? You can leave us a comment in our comment section if you have trouble with the commands or something is not working. You can use the setup instructions from this manual for nearly all GPS-trackers from Reachfar family, just have a look at the examples:
- RF-V8 personal GPS-tracker
- RF-V16 personal GPS-tracker
- RF-V18 Multifunction personal GPS-tracker
- RF-V20 Long Battery Life GPS tracker (power bank)
- RF-V32 2g small tracking device for pets
- RF-V40 3g pet gps gsm
- ... and nearly all other Reachfar GPS-trackers too
Instruction commands for your Reachfar GPS-Tracker - Let's get started
We are using 123456 as the factory default Reachfar GPS tracking device password. If you have changed that password in the past please change the password in these instruction commands.
- Authorize your phone number
Before you can use the gps tracker Reachfar you need to authorize your cell phone number of your smartphone / cell phone. Authorization means to allow just only that number to send instruction commands to the gps tracker and to disallow requesting a location by call or sms from other numbers. This is a kind of security feature.
Dont use the number in the tracker for authorization, use the number of your cell phone (!). This authorized number is also called admin number, master number or center number. Please use the international number format (41,43,49, etc.) If your cell phone number is +491727788990 please use 491727788990 without leading +. Send following sms command now:
Message to device 123456,sos1,491727788990#
To delete this number send:
SMS to device reset#
Attention: Using this delete command means that you delete the center / master number AND all SOS numbers. - Change tracker language
The tracker language is chinese by default so you should change that to english. Please send:
Message to device lag,2#
- First location request by text message
Now you can do the first position request, please send:
Message to device dw#
Your Reachfar GPS-tracker will reply with a location message to your mobile phone. - Check gps tracker settings
To check the current configuration please send:
Message to device dsp#
- Turn off GPRS mode
The GPRS mode (tracking platform mode) is turned on by default. If you dont want to use a gps live tracking server platform you should turn off that feature to save battery power and gprs data traffic.
Message to device goff#
To enable / turn on GPRS / platform mode just send:
SMS to device gon#
- Change LED activity
If you want to turn off LED activity just send:
Message to device loff#
To turn on / enable LED activity send:
Message to device lon#
- Change gps tracker password
By default the Reachfar GPS-tracker is using 123456 as device password. To change this please send:
Message to device 123456,t,456789#
Please change 456789 to your new password. Make sure it contains only numeric values from 0 to 9, no chars, no white spaces - length 6. - GPS server live tracking platform / GPRS mode
To make the gps tracker sending data to a GPS server live tracking platform please review our section Reachfar GPS server live tracking platform text message configuration.
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