The Knog Scout bolts to plain water bottle cage mounts and makes use of a loud, movement activated alarm to discourage thieves from stealing your bike. Ought to they not be deterred, the system might be tracked via Apple’s Discover My app, hopefully aiding within the restoration of your bike.
Knog Scout Bike Alarm and Tracker
Knog’s little Scout might be mounted by itself or hidden below a water bottle cage. Mounted below a plastic or carbon cage, the black Scout blends in fairly nicely. To maintain it from merely being eliminated out of your bike, the Scout comes with a set of safety bolts and a particular device to put in or take away them. The bolts offered are lengthy sufficient to mount a bottle cage on high of the Scout.
When you’d favor to provide extra warning to thieves, the Scout has a neon yellow silicone cowl that overtly advertises its existence and will deter theft immediately. If you wish to maintain the Scout extra hidden (or use your bottle mounts to hold water too) the duvet is just not used, and the Scout is discreetly mounted below the bottle cage. It’s not a lot greater than the bracket you would possibly use to mount a pump below your cage.
The Scout boasts a movement delicate 85db bike alarm – which clearly it’s important to activate in safety mode. Any movement detected by the system’s gyroscopic chip will set off the alarm and mechanically ship a notification to the proprietor’s iPhone.
The Scout alarm might be armed or disarmed in two methods. First, when you and your related iPhone are inside 1.5m of the bike, you may merely use the button on the aspect of the system. When you’re additional away (however inside Bluetooth vary), the Knog app is used to arm or disarm the Scout.
Monitoring and Notifications
The Scout solely works with Apple iOS primarily based smartphones, iPads or Apple watches, because it depends on Apple’s Discover My app to find itself. And Knog’s iOS app is required for setup and operation.
There are some things to notice about how the notifications and Discover My app work. Initially, you’ll solely get theft notifications when you’re inside Bluetooth vary and have the Knog app working in your cellphone. When you’re too far out of your bike, you gained’t get notified if somebody strikes it.
It’s additionally necessary to recollect the Scout is just not a GPS enabled system. Identical to an AirTag, it depends on Apple’s Discover My app, which pings different iPhones to find gadgets.
One closing observe: Watching the setup video on Knog’s web site, I observed one thing patrons would possibly need to know (which I’ll assume is famous within the Scout’s directions)… You must join the Scout to the Discover My app inside ten minutes of plugging it right into a charger for the primary time.
Tech particulars
The Scout has three dual-function LED lights on its physique, which point out if the unit is armed or not and show its battery life. The LED close to the charging port will glow pink whereas the battery is charging, and switch inexperienced when it’s absolutely charged. A low battery notification lets you recognize once you’re down to twenty% or much less.
The Scout’s battery prices by way of USB-C (cable not included), and a full cost takes 4 hours. Totally charged, the battery ought to final between 2-6 months relying on utilization. Knog says to anticipate two months when you arm your bike every day. Knog didn’t specify a lifespan for the non-replaceable (however clearly rechargeable) battery, however I discovered a few of their workers have been utilizing Scouts for just a few years with no noticeable decline in capability.
The Scout is IP66 water-proof (described as wash proof), and its working temperature vary is -20° to 50°C. It measures 107x25x8mm, and weighs 25g.
Knog’s Scout bike alarm and tracker sells for $60, and is on the market now.
