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Tile/AirTag/Chipolo tracker recommendations for GrapheneOS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 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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[–] rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[–] rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

Any ones you know of/recommend?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months 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.