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Looking for selfhosted alternative to "Find my phone" (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 days ago by zombiebikini@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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 139 points 3 days ago (8 children)

https://fmd-foss.org/ Here you go :)

[–] zombiebikini@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

That sounds great. Will check it out.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

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

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

Just set this up myself. Its quite nice

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

You have a pin, right?

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely have to check this out, thanks man!

[–] kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Of course, no problem!!

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Brilliant!

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

[–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

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