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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/sutekhxaos on 2025-01-27 14:39:33+00:00.
I saw this post about using the Apple Find My network for passive tracking of cars using Traccar and was inspired. I didn't realise that Find My had been reverse-engineered. Following the line of projects back I found that the findmy-traccar-bridge that u/jannisko wrote is using OpenHaystack of which there is a macless fork. Reading that doco and digging around a bit to see if someone has already done this I find an issue where zjonesz asks if it can send data to HomeAssistant. I know Dawarich can have data sent to it from HomeAssistant so I'm immediately stoked about this.
Theres 2 projects linked there, one that looks standalone similar to macless-haystack and one that is already built for HomeAssistant via HACS. Unfortunately, it looks like in all of these projects you can only track custom flashed hardware so I'm assuming this is a limitation of the initial project OpenHaystack and/or Anisette server and probably can't be overcome, but this is still awesome.
I'm going to do my own messing around to see what I can put together, and post here about it, but if anyone knows of any other projects that don't have this same limitation or achieve something similar I'd love to know.