cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34586015

Curious on suggestions for airtags, or similar, for tracking important things on flights or other cases where losing the specific item would be too much of a financial / sentimental loss. Anyone doing this from Linux, or from graphene? How is it?

  • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    afaik airtags are apple-proprietary, so someone would need to reverse-engineer them first. that’s probably not a small ask. i haven’t personally looked into it though, so here’s hoping! 🤞

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      61·
      1 day ago

      The system was reverse-engineered almost as soon as it was released. You can do the reverse of what OP is asking using OpenHaystack (track a non-Apple device using Apple’s Find My Network).

      • Joelk111@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 hours ago

        It looks like they have an Android app which means a Linux app could exist, and wouldn’t that do exactly what OP wants to do?

        Edit: Looks like it might depend on Apple Mail. I wonder how the apps work. It must need to be running on a Mac somewhere or something?

        Edit: Yup, that’s exactly it, needs to be running on a Mac.