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OpenhayBike

Openhaystack was a good start for tracking my belongings. However, it uses Mail plugins which brings a lot of troubles. At first, this plugin has to be re-signed on each Mail.app update. Also, in macOS 14, Mail plugins will be removed entirely.

Therefore, I started looking for a new solution to track my trackers. I found the Openhaybike project. It allows retrieving tracker coordinates using an iCloud key that can be obtained on macOS using the get_icloud_key.py script.

pipenv install
pipenv run python3 scripts/get_icloud_key.py

Add this key to config.toml and then you can use the script to get coordinates for a tracker by specifying its Key ID and Private Key.

To find tracker keys, right-click on a tracker in Openhaystack.app and choose:

Then run:

pipenv run python3 ./scripts/locations_cli.py --key-id $KEY_ID --private_key $PRIVATE_KEY

This will return locations for the tracker over the last 24 hours. We could take this further and build a simple web app that displays tracker locations for the past 24 hours.

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Pitfals

Openhikebike doesn’t contain code of the firmware for the tracker or to generte keys, but you can use Openhaystack to do that!

Let me know if you would like me to modify or expand on anything!