Airtag is nearby My iphone

[stoeckli.thomas]

can someone explain whether i can use the iphone and home assistant to tell that a certain airtag is near? I only want to run automations when a certain air day is nearby. Greetings Thomas

[Michael-M (Michael Maggs)]

Apple Airtag? I’d like to do the same, if anyone knows how …

[tmjpugh]

iCloud3 v3 iDevice Tracker - Version 3 Prerelease version is now available

Regarding Tracking Airtags… There have been a few questions of tracking Airtags. I have read some of the technical details about how Airtags work in several articles and I do not think it will be possible to track them. From what I have read, they use a Low Energy Bluetooth to broadcast their signal to broadcast their signal range is about 300-400m. More importantly, they are not located by iCloud, that is, they do not have wifi or cell service so iCloud does not locate them so it does not have…

[PrutsMeneer]

I found a way to extract longitude en latitude coordinates from a AirTag. It requires to have a Mac on 24/7. For that I use MacOS on a virtual machine in virtualbox. I’m writing a script for that right now. This way we can add a airtag to home assistant!

[PrutsMeneer]

Update from my side: I just setup a GitHub page. Still in the process of writing the script, but you can find the actual script on: GitHub - PrutsMeneer/AirTagIt: Ever wanted to save a copy of ALL the locations that you're AirTag has been? Its possible with AirTagIt! - Normally you can only see the current location of the AirTag in the 'Find My' app and no location history. AirTagIt makes is possible to automatically send locations to Google Spreadsheet and MapBox, so you can see all location history!

[xXFracXx]

Hey, stumbled across your github page while looking for something similar, looking forward to the script. Thank you.

[wkearney99 (Bill)]

I’d love to have something that ran at the house and tracked the appearance of unexpected airtags nearby.

[johnwyles]

For anyone coming here excited .about the conversation previously on the GitHub project for AirTagIt by @PrutsMeneer know that it is merely a vaporware project with only a README.md published and no script or code. However, we should get this thread back to the original conversation relating to discovering if iCloud3 (or some other way) supports detecting if the HA phone app can see if an AirTag is nearby…

[tmjpugh]

@johnwyles

However, we should get this thread back to the original conversation relating to discovering if iCloud3 (or some other way) supports detecting if the HA phone app can see if an AirTag is nearby…

Sound like it won’t work currently since it is not tracked like phones

Fetching airtags ?

[johnwyles]

Those links do not work because the SSL certificate is invalid for fmipmobile.icloud.com for whatever reason.

[Photelegy]

May there be a similar solution for Samsung SmartTag with Android in a VirtualMachine (maybe on a NAS) to get the coordinates?

[twanjaarsveld]

Hey prutser!
Al een update ?

[blarocjr (Benny)]

hey Pruts… Did you ever get this done?

[TiToTB]

I think this approach may help you!

AirTag "integration" (user friendly + device tracker)

Hi everybody! I found a way to “integrate” Apple AirTag into Home Assistant. My aim was that Android users could use these devices (actually cheap “AirTags”) and have access to their location through Home Assistant, to consult their location and create automations. What I have done is create a shortcut that sends the information to a helper in HA, and then create a rest sensor to get the coordinates and finally get a device tracker, so you can use it in a map card and in your automations [C…