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Without the Wideband chip, there is no directional finding at all.
These will ping off an Apple device to give you a general area, but you can't pinpoint them with an arrow like you can an AirTag. You can at least make it beep which alleviates some of that annoyance.
Also I don't think there are any Find My compatible tags that have UWB apart from AirTags. Is it not part of the open specification?
There aren’t.
I feel like I'm in an alternate universe to everyone else who discusses AirTags - in my universe, they are nigh on useless.
Mine aren't detected by my phone until I'm a few metres away.
You must be in an area where not a single other iPhone exists.
@happydude: Saint Jobs has demanded that all phones in heaven are iPhones.
His business case to St Peter was:
heaven needs to have three things: a widescreen iPod with touch controls; a revolutionary mobile phone; and a breakthrough Internet communications device.
An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator.
An iPod, a phone… are you getting it? These are not three separate devices, this is one device, and we are calling it iPhone.
Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone, and here it is.
The Reality Distortion Field captured St Peter straight away.
Without the Wideband chip, there is no directional finding at all.
that's just fine for iPhone 16e users since it doesn't have UWB anyway. 😂
built-in buzzer, plays up to 80dB sound to determine the location of the item
which frankly is far quicker and more useful than UWB direction based location. Just make it beep. I dont want to play a game of hide and seek with my keys.
Handy if someone is sleeping and you don’t want to wake them up. Also i used the UWB feature to track down my stolen e-bike that was in the thief’s garage (with the help of police, after having to nag them for 3 weeks). I disable the speakers on the airtags in my bikes, so they are harder for thieves to find. Luckily most garden variety thieves seem to have android phones lol.
@eggboi: My 3 yr old Android can alert me if there is a GPS tracker traveling with me - I put an airtag in my car.
@timhn: You have to install a specific app, it only notifies you after more than 24 hours and at least 2 trips back to your house, and even then good luck finding it if you have a whole bunch of stolen crap in your garage lol.
@eggboi: Yeah I agree you want to disable the speaker for theft, but I can’t imagine it would be easy to hide on a bicycle where it couldnt be easily found once you get the “following you” notice.
Cars it is much more possible to hide long enough that a thief can’t find it before you have their location.
I bought some of the ugreen trackers a week ago when the price first dropped. I went into maccas and it accurately positioned the tracker to the specific parking spot my car was using. I think it does this by triangulating off multiple phones, rather than just a single GPS position.
In any case, very happy with it for $18
@lunchbox99: I guess you’re smarter than the average bike thief then, cos they had it hanging around in their house for weeks before they were caught. It also logs locations and timestamps, so any cctv they pass can be easily gathered by police. It also doesn’t notify you of “following” for 24-48 hours minimum (if you even have the app installed), by which time you’ve probably given away your home location and multiple cctv captures.
I’m not a fan of ugreen.
Same same battery.
No wideband no purchase bb.
For my lugagge I don't need UWB. It is either in the same city as me or not :-D
Even in the same city you still need to be fairly close to hear it beep
It's not usually to track down a missing bag to the room it's in, it's so when you're waiting at the carousel and your bag is taking ages to show up, you can check and see if it made it across or is still in the previous airport… or in a baggage handler's house. Sometimes airlines will take a while to track down your bag so knowing that it's just in the previous airport will give some peace of mind.
Non UWB Apple Find My trackers are $4 delivered from Aliexpress and sometimes cheaper.
Seen a lot but not sure which ones are reliable.
I have bought a few and most are more or less the same in terms of reliability. Some models (black ones with replaceable battery cover you open with a coin… you know what I mean) sometimes were detected as foreign tag by my iPhone but not very often - maybe 3-4 times a year.
Not compatible with android?
It's for Apple Find My
No. Best option we have is the Moto Tag, but it still expensive (~$40 each) and you can only seem to get them at Harvey Norman. Hoping for something like this for android, with UWB and a decent price before a big trip next year.
Happy with my Samsung Smart Tag 2 from a previous deal. They can be used with non-samsung phones with an open source app that someone linked in the last thread: https://github.com/KieronQuinn/uTag
They are UWB compatible.
The Samsung tag is a good device, but I'd hate to risk being halfway though a trip and losing access to them because the app flaked out or Samsung suddenly decided to block 3rd party access.
@fenric: Valid point. if they came up used really cheap I reckon they'd still be worth it though as a backup.
Chipolo One Points are about ~$25 each if you buy more. Purely integrated and reliable on Find My Device. They work well with other Google smart devices like telling if the tag is close the nest mini. Not many functions as they are under control if Find My Device app.
$5 alternatives on AliExpress that do the same thing. General location finding. As the homies said, only AirTags do precise location.
Better tags with UWB that do precise location: Samsung Galaxy SmartTag+, Samsung Galaxy SmartTag2 (incl. smart refrigerators, washing machines, TVs & potentially some compatible 3rd-party IoT devices that are added to SmartThings) & Moto Tag (Google Find My network)
Smart fridges and washing machines have tracking? Crime must be terrible where they are made.
Is there anything similar (cheap I mean) for the Google Find My equivalent ?
I have bought one of these to mod (i.e. remove the speaker) and hide in my car. 2 year battery is attractive, as is the lack of wideband so that it can't be found easily.
It will alert iPhone users to its presence, this is to avoid unlawful tracking.
The alerting is fine, but it's going to be a lot harder for a thief to find if they can't make it make a sound
This is a good point. Could also make them paranoid enough to dump the car rather than continue driving / stripping it.
Can you disable the speaker on this one easily? And how is the range? Would also like to use it due to lack of wide band
Great for stalking
Apple Find My alerts you to that
Android will also notify you if you're moving with an 'unknown tracker'.
Can anyone comment on what sort of range proximity this will provide? Like a 10 or 20 metre radius? I’m always forgetting where I park my car so just need something to get me close enough to see it. Not fussed about the Apply Find My alerts since it’s my car anyway and I know that I put my own tracker in it!
I use them for tracking luggage while travelling, I’d guess it’s in the tens of metres. Good enough to know whereabouts something is.
Okay, seems good enough for what I need. Thanks!
As I posted in a comment above…I bought some of the ugreen trackers a week ago when the price first dropped. I went into maccas and it accurately positioned the tracker to the specific parking spot my car was using. I think it does this by triangulating off multiple phones, rather than just a single GPS position.
Airtag has the U1 UWB. Ugreen doesn't.
- for small items, I prefer U1 UWB for accuracy. It shrinks the error‑circle from “somewhere in the room” to “right under that cushion.”
- for large items (like a car), you don't need UWB.
- for small items, I prefer U1 UWB for accuracy. It shrinks the error‑circle from “somewhere in the room” to “right under that cushion.”
The idea with these non-UWB ones is once you've narrowed it down to the room, you can make it beep so you can follow the beeps to under the cushion. That's not doable in every scenario, but if you're always losing your keys in a place where you'd be able to hear beeps, that could work.
Is it Shuckable?
For those asking for Android-compatible trackers, these ~$10 ones from AliExpress work great for me. Full operability with Google's new Find My Device network.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this
Cool, bought 2 to test out.
Have never used such trackers in past. Can such device be used for finding wireless headphones like soundpeats in home. I have the 3rd gen and they are small and easy to loose.
This is handy for parents to track where the little kids are playing after school.
Thanks OP! Bought 1. Should have get 2 at least. Now expired.
DOA
Anyone have a review of this? I'm interested in them (UGREEN is a great brand) but want to know how they compare to an AirTag.
How does directional finding work without the wideband chip? Is the battery better? How's the audio?
There's also the card version on discount too - https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Compatible-Ultra-Slim-Water…