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If my bike were ever stolen, I sort of like the "personal manhunt" aspect. Our shop is in a part of town that can become somewhat unsavory at night, and our shop truck had a tracking device on it. It was stolen a number of times, and each time we tracked it, it was found abandoned a short distance from the shop. Seems people were taking it for the convenience of using a truck to move something, and then leaving it nearby. Each time we tracked it, we anticipated encountering the thieves, and brought scary looking things like crowbars, but always just found an empty truck. I wonder what we would have done if we ever faced the people who took the truck.
Perhaps I'd find this feature handy on a business trip when I leave my non-descript rental car in a large shopping center parking lot and then forget what it looked like when I come back out.
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(04-25-2021, 10:37 PM)Tom_imp Wrote: I do like the idea of using the thief's cell phone to bust him as that will be the most likely phone to find the cycle.
Only if they were running the same app. If the thief isn't running the App their phone will be of no use.
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(04-26-2021, 03:11 AM)Tev62_imp Wrote: (04-25-2021, 10:37 PM)Tom_imp Wrote: I do like the idea of using the thief's cell phone to bust him as that will be the most likely phone to find the cycle.
Only if they were running the same app. If the thief isn't running the App their phone will be of no use.
Only if they were running the same app. If the thief isn't running the App their phone will be of no use.
It seems to me the service would only be useful if every iphone in the world was running it.
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This wouldn't work because there is an "anti-creeper feature" where if the iPhone notices an AirTag following you that isn't your own, it will pop up with an alert that an AirTag is following you alerting the thief that they need to find and remove the tag.
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(04-26-2021, 05:34 AM)tj_gee_imp Wrote: This wouldn't work because there is an "anti-creeper feature" where if the iPhone notices an AirTag following you that isn't your own, it will pop up with an alert that an AirTag is following you alerting the thief that they need to find and remove the tag.
It doesn't quite work like that. When I have my Tile App running and have my Bluetooth on I am essentially agreeing to be a local tracker. If I find a tag that another user has tagged as missing I pick up the tag location and report it to the system unknowingly. The Other use is notified of the location by the system but he has no idea of who picked up the scent.
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Like a mesh network, but authorization has to enabled by participating devices for "event message forwarding"?
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Tev62, I was specifically talking about the Apple AirTags.
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(04-26-2021, 10:31 PM)tj_gee_imp Wrote: Tev62, I was specifically talking about the Apple AirTags.
Yes sorry, I do get what you are saying about the Anti-Creeper functionality, a good thing for personal privacy too. Other than that they work the same way as a Tile.
Apple - So, if you've put the AirTag into Lost Mode, it pings out a silent signal and when, say, someone with an iPhone walks past, it'll communicate with it. The iPhone owner won't know this. In the background, the phone quietly passes on the message that your AirTag has been spotted.
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An old post. But, Mrs. G gave me a set of four AirTags for my birthday, thinking I could use them for my business travel. I'll definitely use one in my backpack, which is my Nuclear Football when I travel, and has been temporarily misplaced before, in a coworker's rental car, etc.
But thinking about putting the other ones in my motorcycles. They go from my locked garage to my indoor shop at work mostly, but are in parking lots when I go shopping or out with friends. Wonder if that would be a benefit.
... Or a way for Mrs. G to track my wherabouts... ?
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(02-22-2023, 03:41 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: An old post. But, Mrs. G gave me a set of four AirTags for my birthday, thinking I could use them for my business travel. I'll definitely use one in my backpack, which is my Nuclear Football when I travel, and has been temporarily misplaced before, in a coworker's rental car, etc.
But thinking about putting the other ones in my motorcycles. They go from my locked garage to my indoor shop at work mostly, but are in parking lots when I go shopping or out with friends. Wonder if that would be a benefit.
... Or a way for Mrs. G to track my wherabouts... ?
Just stay away from the GF's place on the bike.
