Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

Yes you can do that.

It’s a standard feature on my Garmin watch. I can access it in a few button presses, sometimes two if it’s the last action I used.

OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.

Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state starting to become a bit of a spaghetti mess.

It’s a funny time to live through. A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden.

https://xcancel.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805

I use rssi to find my stuff regularly. There are a ton of android apps to do it. I also use it for room presence detection with homeassistant (using the BLE in my ESP32s and Shelly switches).

That's because people like me were doing that and writing about it 20+ years ago. Everything from Claude comes from human minds.

I used bluez and bash to lock xscreensaver using some very minimal bash. It wasn't my idea I believe people on the Gentoo forums were doing it.

But you can just loop over something like `hcitool rssi "$MAC"` and project it somewhere, there's a variety of ways.

I like using dunstify with the -p option to persist on screen.

I think it's really impressive what these agents can do, but you should also consider whether you're asking it to burn tokens reinventing the wheel for you, or making a pretty wrapper around a wrapper.

I did that a few years ago when my wife lost her fitbit in the woods. She knew the approximate area, +/- 50ft. Thick brush. Using a BT meter on the phone led me right to it like a metal detector

Had this song in my head, wrote some lyrics, hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it. What a world.

I make little tools like that all the time. My GitHub is filled with these little things I write or gen once never to be used again. Some of them I use daily (GitHub.com/dexterlagan). Since LLMs became decent I make even more of these. The more we move forward, the more people make things for their own use. I think it's cool. I see a lot of naysayers, but man, I have been waiting for this kind of tech since I was 10. Let's enjoy it I say.

If this happens often for you (it does for me) I can recommend a garmin watch. It also can find the phone based on signal strength. If the app garmin app is running in the background it can also play a sound on your phone, but the signal strength part saved me many times.

Claude is MacGyvermaxxing

cool, that’s like the Phone Buddy app for Apple Watch

I routinely use the RSSI indications in my UniFi WiFi (thoroughly recommended) to find various kids devices around the house. You go by AP first (each section has its own), then each room tends to give its own RSSI, give or take.

"Come on Rebecca, you did not lose your phone"

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