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I wish it had a way to integrate with the Find My app instead of having to go through their own (wonky) process to retrieve locations. The chinese clones can do it (even with their own branding), so it must be possible somehow.
This is a technically interesting project, but is there any situation at all where it's worth using? It seems like it just allows you to build airtag-like devices that sorta work on the Find-My network with some rough edges, but I can buy proper AirTag clones in various form factors for a couple bucks - far cheaper than I could ever make a custom bluetooth device using this project. Am I missing a use-case?
Hmmm, but can you use it to set up an actual AirTag without having another apple device like iPhone or Mac?
Impressive. Would Apple be able to simply block non-Apple usage of Find My network usage simply by refusing to relay non-Apple BLE ID?
No, the BLE identities of these tags are currently practically indistinguishable from original tags, and could be made completely identical if necessary. In fact, changing the device's MAC address is part of the specification. What they could block, is the method used by these projects to fetch encrypted location reports. However, the original OpenHaystack project (this one) needs to run on macOS and lets the system…
EDIT: just realized I'm replying to the author of the project lol
Haven’t done the research but I wonder if you can use this to piggyback with tiny arbitrary data data payloads.
I saw someone use this to track his mail state. They have a contact sensor inside their mailbox that rotates the broadcasted key based on the trigger count. If the key changed, aka a new different device is visible, you know mail has been dropped in, very clever !
Something that would let you send extremely tiny (Amazon has a network like this called Sidewalk, using Alexa devices as gateways, but I don't think it's very open to third-party experimentation, and it's definitely not an interoperable standard on the gateway side.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/04/find-my-device-netwo...
https://9to5google.com/2024/08/01/find-my-device-stress-test...
https://9to5google.com/2024/08/03/google-android-find-my-dev...
https://www.androidcentral.com/accessories/testing-new-googl...
I wish there was a good option for non Apple users. From what I've heard Google made their version pretty bad, as expected. They rate limit how often you can search for your own tags, they won't show the location until a tag has been seen by multiple phones, there's poor coverage. One test I saw showed that Samsung's network was better, which makes no sense since Samsung phones should be a subset of all Android phone…
Hmmm, but can you use it to set up an actual AirTag without having another apple device like iPhone or Mac?
I wish there was a good option for non Apple users. From what I've heard Google made their version pretty bad, as expected. They rate limit how often you can search for your own tags, they won't show the location until a tag has been seen by multiple phones, there's poor coverage. One test I saw showed that Samsung's network was better, which makes no sense since Samsung phones should be a subset of all Android phone…
I dunno, a less than perfectly all-seeing omnipresent tracking network actually is a little comforting
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/12/17/lost-lu...
https://help.vanmoof.com/hc/en-us/articles/16053155393181-Ho...
I wish there was a good option for non Apple users. From what I've heard Google made their version pretty bad, as expected. They rate limit how often you can search for your own tags, they won't show the location until a tag has been seen by multiple phones, there's poor coverage. One test I saw showed that Samsung's network was better, which makes no sense since Samsung phones should be a subset of all Android phone…