Goole Find my device

• Asset tracking service
  • Android-powered smartphones, tablets, headphones/earphones, and Wear OS-powered smartwatches
  • With the release of the Find My Device network, third-party Bluetooth items and accessories with support for the Find My Device network accessory program
• Wikipedia
• Google FMD web service
• r/CalyxOS: Android trackers support
• r/CalyxOS: Pixel 8 find my device offline
• GrapheneOS: Find My Device Network Support
• Google Find My Device tag recommendation?

How it works

• r/Chipolo: Good summary how FMD network works
• Unlike apple, where only one phone will publish the tag location, Google FMD service needs multiple phones to publish the tag location

Tags

• Pebblebbe: Not available in Europe anymore

Chipolo One Point

• Product page
• ø 37.9 mm, 6.4 mm thick (Airtag: ø 31.9 mm, 8mm thick)
• r/Chipolo: Can you see on Find My Device App + Web, or just Find My Device App (and not Web)?
• Chipolo one vs one point location accuracy
  • tldr; Chipolo One only works with the Chipolo app (and only phones that have it installed will update the location), Chipolo One Point only works with the Google FMD app/network, and therefore has much better location accuracy

Setup/pairing:

i have goten myself LG headphones and paired them first on a goggled android Phone and then wiped that phone to put a custom rom onto it and now does it still show up in the app with that account

Smartphone

Alternatives to Google find-my-device

• FindMyDevice apps
  • Locate and control your device remotely
  • Verlorenes Smartphone orten mit Find My Device ohne Google
  • F-Droid app
• Nextcloud phonetrack app

Software

Google find my device

• Registration needs to happen on a device with the Find-my-device app installed, and a connected google account
• Device location can be shared with another google account, but the sharing link needs to get openend on a device with also both connected google account and Find-my-device app installed.
• Google: Find my device web service

3rd party software

• leonboe1/GoogleFindMyTools
  • Framework for tracking and building your own Google Find My Device trackers
  • Query existing trackers or create new custom ones (ESP32- or Zephyr-based)
• GoogleFindMyTools-homeassistant
  • Fork of leonboe1/GoogleFindMyTools that can publish the locations to an MQTT topic discoverable by home assistant