Comment on Looking for selfhosted alternative to "Find my phone"

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  great idea, but a suggestion.

  instead of just one ping at 2%, do three within 10 seconds of each other. this would determine direction and rate of travel.

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can just remotely enable high accuracy mode for a minute and it will trace their path on a map cleanly.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      wouldn’t that either be disabled due to the low battery or eat up the remainder of the battery?

      I would think snapping coords, even at low accuracy, would be more power efficient since it technically doesn’t have to connect to more satellites and requires less compute.

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ohhhhhh fantastic idea!!

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• blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use home assistant and have a dashboard button that triggers an automation.

  Using the notification action, I turn off do-not-disturb, turn off Bluetooth (so it doesn’t pipe sound to earbuds or remote audio), set notification mode to on (not vibrate) and set the notification volume to max. I used to loop the default notification sound, but then switched so that the notification uses a new channel entirely and set each phone with a song so it will play for a while. You can silence it with the volume key.

  Took a little tinkering to get it right, but works really well.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well that’s pretty cool. So when You ping, does it save this data or do you have to actually be present for the ping (on your phone)?

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