Google announced bluetooth LE based ‘find my device’. Would love to see it integrated in Home Assistant and create automations based on that.
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I have a few use cases for this. I’d love to see it. Google API doesn’t seem to have it listed unless it piggy backs on another API. Once that comes out, I assume we will have more luck?
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are we able to scrape the website ? just like google maps integration does/
Anybody tried to use it already? Any chances to integrate this into HA?
My Chipolo order just shipped, hope I will have time to play with it before my vacation…
I have been testing Chipolo for 2 weeks. In Romania it works quite well. It was the only reason that made me think about the iPhone. But I will stay with Android as before. I also bought a Pebblebee device, which is also OK. I don’t see a difference at the moment. I’m thinking of an integration that shows the presence at home or elsewhere. Have a nice holiday.
Activated Chipolo ONE Point, here is my fist impression:
- Activated without any issues in few seconds via Galaxy s21 phone.
- Work ok, can find device within BT range.
- I can see now all my 3 devices (2x phones & 1x Chipolo) in Find My Device app.
- Started testing find function with use of Android’s network today, will update.
Here are disadvantages related to the initial post subject:
When I opened google find my device in a web browser - Chipolo is not there, only my 2 android phones.
So there is currently no way to “capture” requests and try to integrate this into HA from browser. I’m not experienced in “sniffing” android apps, if it’s at all possible.
@ [constantin85] , do you have different experience? Please share your thoughts about integrating it.
I’m also curious about the possibilities with the Google Find My network & the Chipolo devices.
From what I’ve experienced with the Tile devices, once you have the device added to the Tile app, it stops its unencrypted Bluetooth MAC advertising and becomes useless to HA.
So, you either find out the MAC and use it without the app (works fine in HA), or use it in the app and without HA (not a useful scenario for me, as the Tile Find My network is very limited compared to the Apple & Google Find My networks).
So…one thing I’d be very interested in is whether adding a Chipolo One Point to the Google Find My network disables its Bluetooth MAC advertising. If it does, then we’ll probably only be able to use some horribly hacky solution to ever get such a device in HA while maintaining the Find My benefits.
My use case for such a tracker is very specific: I want to give my kid her own keys to the apartment and she is not allowed phones at school, so the keys should really have their own high-performance tracker in order to not be lost. I use Android, so AirTags are out, which leaves either an inferior location-based service like Tile or, now, Google. I would like to also integrate this with HA, though, so that MAC advertising would really do the trick.
Looks like these use Eddystone.
There’s some (old) stuff on stackoverflow about decoding the packets:
android - How to identify Eddystone URL and uid? - Stack Overflow
I’ve got some AirCard Pro and AirNotch Pro (Android Find My Device) devices on the way, so I’d like to see what sort of integration is available for them using a Bluetooth adapter in HA, preferably something as simple as iBeacon devices.
My use-case is to track my second set of car keys (which are always getting misplaced), luggage, and perhaps my youngest kid’s school backpack as they’re not old enough for a phone yet.
I hope this helps someone!
reverse engineering chipolo:
Here the dev is working on an integration for the home assistant, anyone who knows anything and can help will be welcome!
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