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.
FYI, I came across an app called FindFamily on F-Droid, but it looks like a vibe-coded vaporware, and who knows what server it’s connecting to in the background.
On device, I’d trust OwnTracks, Colota, or GPSLogger, then use Dawarich or Reitti on the server. That is, if you are interested in device history, which could be useful in tracking a lost device, or just having your personal memoies saved.
These do not provide defensive measures like photo or remote wiping. FMD can do that over SMS if the phone is disconnected from the server.
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?
Never tried it. It looks like maybe the mobile app is not available from open source repos.
Ah it seems they released the android app very recently and it is not FOSS.