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vitovito | 1 year ago

I ended up using Shortcuts to publish a set of screenshots from an always-on Mac every 10 minutes or so for a set of shared, family AirTags: http://vitor.io/android-airtags

I couldn't reliably get iOS to do the same, and my tests of an Android-compatible tag found it was detected much less often than an AirTag riding along with it.

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pixelmonkey|1 year ago

Wow, that's some dedication to solve this problem! Very nice write-up. It was also good to see your thinking behind why doing this on an always-on Mac was better than possible alternatives. Thankfully M-series Macs don't draw much power at all at idle.