I hand mine to people I know: friends or co-workers. I created a Telegram group chat and added all of them there. They can use a command to check the connectivity of their probe directly from the group chat.

Regularly I get in touch with them and ask them to connect their probes or to troubleshoot them if they appear abandoned.

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2018-03-31 07:48 (GMT+08:00), Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> said:
> I had a conversation with a new probe host who was wondering how many of
> the probes I hand out "walk off" never to be seen again.
> Sadly, that's quite a lot of them in my case.  I guess I need to find
> conferences with more reliable attendees?
> People promise to plug them in but then they get distracted.  Or they
> move and the probes end up in boxes.
> How do other ambassadors twist their hosts' arms into actually plugging
> in probes?  (And keeping them plugged in!)
> Philip
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