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.

Brilliant!

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

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

That sounds great. Will check it out.

Just set this up myself. Its quite nice

Definitely have to check this out, thanks man!

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

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.

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.

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.

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)?

How do you ping a location update? I've tried sending the hidden sms that's supposed to do is but it only seems to work about 25% of the time, and I have to run the actual location check like 3-4 minutes later

I use owntracks with a free cloudaqmp plan for the mqtt broker. It felt safer than trying to manage my own mqtt open inf the internet. The data is decrypted and parsed by a dedicated node on my main node red instance.

I think I will try a combination if dawarich and FMD. Any reason other apps like colota are preferred to the dawarich app on the device?

I had this and switched to reitti with owntracks specifically to work with multiple family accounts. Owntracks is not as nice as Colota in most ways, but shows the live location of my family. I had some stability issues with dawarich using multiple devices (most likely user error) but liked it. I do think that reitti has a nicer interface and features, but probably a matter of taste.

How does one send a massage? 😁

This could work, I'll check it out