How do I get Google Findhub to work?

DCCXVIII

It works with the phone itself. But I recently bought some ugreen luggage trackers and they refuse to be detected by the app. I know it's an issue with GOS since I tested it on a regular Android phone and it worked straight away. So clearly there's some setting somewhere or some dependency I'm missing.

I've installed the Google Finder app and have Google play services running with Bluetooth enabled but the Finder app still doesn't connect to it. Yes, I have the android compatible Finetrack version. Not the iOS version. I've given Findhub all the permissions it needs including the permission to detect nearby devices.

Thanks.

DCCXVIII

Update: After installing a few other google apps I managed to inadvertently find whatever app was the dependency for FindHub. At which point it was able to detect the bluetooth tracker. However it then error'd out and said that my google account isn't eligible for connection due to it being a childrens account or some such (it isn't). So in the end I gave up.

beep-boop

I wanna say that compared to findmyiphone the FindHub works awfully even with stock devices, I wouldn't trust it if I lost anything anyway (although I bought a shitload of trackers already)

graphrt

I tried everything I could find in this forum and on Reddit, but never got the FindHub app to work on GrapheneOS.

But today I found a workaround for the main feature I miss, namely: on the GrapheneOS device which I carry with me, determine the location of a luggage tracker which is outside the bluetooth range.

The workaround is to use the browser-based interface at https://www.google.com/android/find/ . Here you can log in with the Google account. You need to enter the screen lock PIN of another (non-GrapheneOS) device, and then it is possible to query a luggage tag which is outside the bluetooth range and to get a new location reported on a GrapheneOS device, without physical access to another non-GrapheneOS cellphone. I am putting a shortcut to https://www.google.com/android/find/ onto the desktop, so it's almost as easy to use as the FindHub app.

I still need the non-GrapheneOS cellphone for adding new luggage tags to the account or for sharing them and I guess it also needs to exist for remotely triggering a request for the latest location of a luggage tag. But I can live with that since I do not have to lug that other device around with me. And I can avoid solving the seemingly untractable problem that is discussed in this and similar threads.