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Hi, I'm looking for an alternative to Google's Find my phone that can be self hosted. Most important feature would be to see the last known location of a mobile phone without disclosing the location to any third party system. It would be nice to have features like making the phone ring or wiping the phone remotely.

Happy to hear any ideas what you people are using.

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[-] kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud 128 points 1 day ago
[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I am using this one. Texting or messaging my phone (on anything that makes a notification popup) with the text "fmd password location" gives me GPS coords. More than enough for me, and works even from a borrowed stranger's phone.

Setup steps require ADB though, because in the phone ecosystem getting "unusual" permissions usually requires business deals with Google/Apple.

[-] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

Brilliant!

How does it go for chewing thru the phone battery tho?

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Works awesome, Dev is super responsive. Donate if you can.

[-] zombiebikini@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

That sounds great. Will check it out.

[-] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Just set this up myself. Its quite nice

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

I just wanted to add a thankyou for sharing the link. What a great solution!

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

Definitely have to check this out, thanks man!

[-] kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Of course, no problem!!

[-] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 3 points 22 hours ago

I have been hosting my own server for a few months bow. Works amazingly. One thing is their seems to be two versions of the server, make sure the one you install is the actively maintained one.

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