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?)
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.
Someone else also suggested a pet tracker. It seems like this could work for my use case.
Any ones you know of/recommend?
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.