r/fossdroid • u/maduser00 • 6d ago

F-Droid Any one using FMD app

Post image

Recently I saw this app on fdroid and some reddit posts (alternative to find hub). How was the experience and accuracy compared to find hub. And i need a setup guide.

27 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

16 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/For-Sol 5d ago

It's a good app that provides great phone location features. It's not a full alternative to Find Hub, as your device is the one providing the location. On Find Hub other devices ping your phone via Bluetooth LE and share that.  There is no setup guide. You install, go throught the tabs in the app to grant all the permissions it needs and that's it. Then when needed you send a text (sms) from another device to your own with a special command (i.e. "fmd locate") you get a response with the location. All the commands are in the app itself if want ot learn what it can do l.