Instruction Manual

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Introduction
The purpose of this instruction manual is to help you become familiar with the setup, function and operation
of your Smart Foal product.
If you want to stream your mares’ data, you need to use a computer or laptop with the screen saver and sleep
settings disabled. This is necessary because a tablet or phone will cut their WiFi connection once the device
has been asleep for a few minutes to conserve the battery life.
If your phone won’t stream the Smart Foal webapp, how do you get alarms? That’s where Pushover comes in.
Pushover is a third-party app that is designed for emergency warnings and alarms. Once installed and set up,
Pushover allows you to configure notification sounds for different types of alarms. For example, the low
battery alert could be a fairly mild noise, whereas you might like your ‘lying down’ alarm to wake the dead.
The beauty of Pushover over SMS is that Pushover can use BOTH the mobile/cell phone network and WiFi
networks. That way if you are in a remote location and don’t have phone coverage - but you do have WiFi -
then you will still get alarms. If you are in town and out of range of WiFi - but you have mobile phone service -
then you still get alarms. We have tried to cover as many bases as possible.
But what if I don’t want to use WiFi? The Smart Foal base station has a hardware alarm that you can activate.
If the mare lies down the hardware alarm will sound until you turn it off, or until the mare gets back up.
There are three new features in Smart Foal HOME compared to the original version:
1. Automatic hardware alarm over ride. If you leave your alarm connected to WiFi with the switch set to
AUTO and then the WiFi drops out in the middle of the night, the hardware alarm can turn itself on
when the mare lies down – so you don’t miss out.
2. ‘Lost mare’ alert. This is a copy of the same function performed by the server. If your WiFi base
station can’t contact a mare for 3 minutes or more the alarm will start to ‘chirp’. This feature can be
disabled. Details in the next section.
3. Lying down is now as sensitive as the server based alarm.
What’s in the box?
Your Smart Foal box will include:
 Smart Foal transmitter
 WiFi Base Station (Receiver)
 USB charger cable
 Instruction manual
 2 x antenna
 1 x Magnetic antenna
base
 International power pack
with USB output
If you have ordered additional products make sure they are in the box as well.
Leather pouches are not included as part of the standard kit. They aren’t necessary or mandatory but
some people like having them as an option. They can protect the existing Velcro on the transmitter, or
they can be used as a replacement for broken Velcro.
You will find the most current version of this manual in the Smart Foal VIP Club
on Facebook. The video tab on the left-hand side of that page also contains
setup videos.