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Tile/AirTag/Chipolo tracker recommendations for GrapheneOS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I'm looking to put a tracker on my mountain bike. I use GrapheneOS.

What are your recommendations?

I've heard Life360 (which owns Tile now) is a privacy nightmare.

AirTags are unmanageable without an iPhone.

Never heard of Chipolo until recently.

Is there anything for GrapheneOS that would work well?

(Also: Does GrapheneOS have a Find My software equivalent?)

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[–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Makes sense. I will look into this, thank you. Still on the lookout for a hardware tracker though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The small hardware trackers have a range of 10 meters. They literally cannot work without being a privacy intrusion like Tile/Life touch.

    The only option is a tiny phone that you hide on the bike. You can go really small by getting a dog gps tracker. They work using cell service rather than depend on other nearby users running a tracking app that reports their finds back to Apple or Lifetouch so that you can login and see it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Someone else also suggested a pet tracker. It seems like this could work for my use case.

    Any ones you know of/recommend?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sorry, no. I looked into them for my cats but they were all too large. There's also the monthly cell phone fee.

    I've looked at making my own because then I could use a sim card with free sms. Google esp32 gps. https://youtu.be/aytj77b42VM.

    None of the commercial products use free sms sims. I ended up using air tags because my wife has an iPhone.

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