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I liked Eddystone https://www.espruino.com/Eddystone before but it's been disabled for sometime now due to abuse.
Now it looks like Google is again trying something similar with the "Find My Device" function:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/bluetooth-tags-for-androids-3-billion-strong-tracking-network-are-here/
https://blog.google/products/android/google-android-safety-features/
I'm guessing this would also run through BLE
Has anyone else worked on this? I can't seem to find any documentation on the protocol; I'm guessing once we have docs it should be relatively straightforward(?) to turn a puck into a tracker that shows up in Find My Device. There might be some process to register trackers in order to avoid abuse but that's not necessarily a technical limitation.