Tracking Apple AirTags with Shortcuts?

[VBrenner (V)]

I know the topic of tracking Apple AirTags has been covered at length. And mostly established that it ain’t possible. BUT!

I am thinking of whether there is a way to leverage Apple Shortcuts on an older iPhone or iPad that is lying around collecting dust (that can repeat shortcut on a cadence). Right now, you can open Find My Items page of the app through Shortcuts by using “Open URL findmy://items”. Couldn’t figure how to get to a page for specific item, but maybe the community brains may have ideas. Guess it must be findmy://items/???

If that is possible, then we can follow this action with a wait for x seconds for page to refresh, Take Screenshot, Extract Text from Picture, If “contains” “home” press a button once (eg. make an Action in Home Assistant for it and maybe use a spare Aqara Button or something like that). From there you can run automations or something

[harrywrong1516]

Omg I need to know if you found the answer because wtf is customization on an iPhone if I can’t even do that

[modelstudent101]

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…

Check this out. Early development, but seems great so far.