[dhritzkiv]

The ability to build on this seems to be limited to those in the MFi certification program. Likely means you can't roll your own, at least until third party chips/components that are certified become available for integrating into small-scale hardware projects.

Still, quite excited for new consumer accessories to support this.

[floatingatoll]

Apple’s guidelines for whether or not you need to join MFi: https://mfi.apple.com/en/faqs.html

To build on this for other than personal use, you would either need to purchase Find My microchips from someone who is in the MFi program, or you would need to join the program yourself if you intend to produce your own microchip implementation of Find My.

For personal use, Apple truly doesn’t care.

[bigiain]

I haven't tried this, but I did bookmark it in case I want to some weekend:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack

"OpenHaystack is a framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network. Use it to create your own tracking tags that you can append to physical objects (keyrings, backpacks, ...) or integrate it into other Bluetooth-capable devices such as notebooks."

[floatingatoll]

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26342504

[bigiain]

Yeah - probably where I bookmarked it form...

[dhritzkiv]

Thanks for clarifying. That's good.

Btw, your link didn't work for me, but I was able to find the page here: https://mfi.apple.com/en/faqs.html

[floatingatoll]

Fixed