Meshtastic

I just bought a T1000-E Tracker with the hope of putting it on my dog. I don't let him run loose, but he's gotten out a few times and it makes me crazy when it happens. Having a way to locate him would be a relief.

Several of the options in the Positions configuration screen are not working for me. The Broadcast Interval drop-down has options down to 1 minute, but it ignores anything I try to set that is less than 1 hour. Likewise, the Smart Interval drop-down goes to 15 seconds, but it will not allow me to set less than 5 minutes.

I understand the need to avoid flooding the mesh with updates. My use case is likely to be active for less than 15 minutes out of any given year, but during that time I need faster updates than once every five minutes. My dog can easily cover several blocks in that time.

I thought the limits might be in the app, so I used the Meshtastic CLI to set those values where I wanted them. That appeared to work, but when the device finished rebooting they were still set to the same minimum values I ran into with the app. Given that, the limitation is almost certainly built into the firmware and not the app.

I'm hoping that someone can give me some information on how this really works. I assume the drop-down values originally made sense. Have the minimums for those intervals been changed by that much? And was it intentional and not a side-effect or bug? Is there any workaround?

If the ranges available for those values have changed in the firmware, it would be nice to get them updated to match in the app.