sailorpaul

Heat, heat, heat… if this doorbell can’t handle a south facing door location it will end up being a major black eye for Apple.  I have TWO south facing doors in SoCal that are blasted by the sun.  Dark gray doorbell cases often exceed 140 degrees (really, did nobody take thermal engineering ???)

I have been thru SIX doorbells that failed,  One of the Aqara died this week.  Plenty of power: 24V 40VA transformer.  Great WiFi.  Even tried painting eone case white.  Sigh

A higher percentage of fake Twit accounts may give Elon a “for cause” reason to void the purchase without paying $1B to Twit’s board of Machiavelli-ators. 

Superb show !

Rayz2016 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Xed said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

That design can't be right. One side has to be flat to mount the tag to a surface.

From what I've seen from this common leak/mockup is that the metal side is flat and with a small lip so that that its edge cen hold many different type of 1st and 3rd part objects, like keychains, with ease.

I hope there is more to the AirTag than simply being a Tile competitor. There are now Bluetooth tags that have built in GPS receivers and talk to each other in a mesh network....
 ..... to send their locations and that's not being used by ground vehicles at airport, but these aren't small, inexpensive, or using BT.

https://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/document.current/documentnumber/150_5220-26

They are larger, obviously. The point is that Bluetooth tags can do a lot more than ping their ID. Here is an example:
https://www.digitalmatter.com/applications/bluetooth-asset-tracking/

So just to be clear, these conveniently-sized, unobtrusive devices are what you’re arguing as an alternative. 

My cat isn’t going to wear that. 

Mrs Ray2016 is not going to use that as a key fob. 

Get a bigger cat.
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“I wonder if they will include some sort of time-out feature. If the Air Tag doesn’t sync up with the owner’s phone after a while, maybe it stops transmitting real time information?  

This is to help you find your own items (keys, wallet, iPad...) and you are not likely to need to track them for days.  I can even imagine you could disable the time-out feature if you report your device missing or stolen...”

That would be in conflict with the idea of a company placing an air tag on expensive company assets that staff might carry with them. We were looking forward to defining employees home location as a “no track area“ and the tracking would only begin once the employee loaded up the company equipment and went out on the road for the day. It would stop when they returned home.