airtags

[adam277]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3zMWWG9W14

Anyone tried these? You can buy one for like £34 on eBay.
I know its not the best tracker out there but it is cheap. Also if someone is gonna steal your bike they usually stick it somewhere like a garage or somewhere underground. In which a GPS signal will not really work.
As you know though everyone has phones and a lot have apple phones. So there is a good chance of getting a ping.

What's your guys thoughts? Bear in mind it is cheap and I believe the battery lasts for about 1 year.
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Current Bike: Honda CBF 125: current

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I had the similar tile which seemed to have potential if there was widespread uptake and people were prepared to keep Bluetooth on. The idea was you could flag a tile as stolen or missing and then anyone passing by with a tile app would unwittingly report your item’s new location. Without that widespread uptake it was just a short range Bluetooth locator. I can’t remember if the app was directional but you could make the tile ‘chirp’ when you were in range. I tried using one on a trail camera in woodland but it wasn’t very good. The battery lasted up to a year but was not replaceable.

Of course, if it had been adopted widely as an anti-theft device it would then have been the first thing a thief would look for, and it wasn’t small enough to hide well.

The ‘tile’ company got the hump when Apple predictably came out with their own version.

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Thought about this before. It'd be a good idea to stick one in a box like this to make it a bit more stealthy too..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324970091578. (no affiliation, just something I found).
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[Easy-X]

The Apple one has to be the best one as so many ppl have iPhones. Depends on the area and its footfall. Works well for airport luggage!

My own GPS system has been working well (tracker on the Kwacker) and doesn't seemed to have flattened the battery prematurely
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[Robby]

If I was an iphone person, I would have one on the bike. I wouldn't treat it as a substitute for a tracker, but for that money and with iphones being that prevalent, it could work.
Depending on how much data apple would release, it could also provide some interest forensic data if the tile was pinged by one of the thieves phones.

For competent thieves, forget it. The signal is so weak that I'm not sure if an effective range bluetooth signal jammer would even be illegal.

FYI, proper trackers tend to use a combination of GPS, GSM, GPRS, 3/4G, and even longer wavelength radio on some models. A variety of shielding/blocking/jamming methods would have to be in use to work on all of them at the same time. Nothing screams "I'm a thief" like a white run simultaneously running a GPS and GPRS jammer.

[adam277]

Well I think most bike thefts are local.
Might not do much if a pro takes your bike but for the money it doesn't seem to bad.
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Current Bike: Honda CBF 125: current

[pepperami]

There was an article on tv there other night about these I-tag things.
It was about how criminals are covertly sticking them to top of the range cars in order to locate them/follow them in order to find the best opportunity to steal them.
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[pepperami]

[pepperami]

I’ll just leave this here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIbrT7QWhE.
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[t121anf]

Works on women too

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10364499/Women-TikTok-reveal-strangers-using-Apple-AirTags-track-them.html

[Robby]

[adam277]

these airtags just use bluetooth right? and any Apple phone can pick them up and report their location.
So it's reliant on there being a fairly modern iphone nearby or similar apple product.

That being said iphones are everywhere these days.
I doubt these airtags would be good in the countryside but in London could be very useful.
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Current Bike: Honda CBF 125: current

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Yes but whilst Bluetooth allegedly doesn’t use much battery power I don’t think many people have it on all the time.

[t121anf]

Apple turns it back on if you turn it off.

[xX-Alex-Xx]