Django Find My Device

Find My Device client and server implemented in Python using Django. Usable for the Andorid App FindMyDevice by Nnulide:

Note: For command notifications, you also need to install a https://unifiedpush.org/ app like "ntfy":

Django "Find My Device" server for YunoHost

State

Server implementation

What worked:

• App can register the device
• App can send a new location
• App can delete all server data by unregister the device
• The Web page can fetch the location of a device
• Paginate between locations in Web page
• Push notification of commands

Server TODOs:

• Pictures

Client implementation

e.g.:

~/django-find-my-device$ ./manage.py fmd --get-location --device-id 2gvp8d --password your-password

Start hacking:

~$ git clone https://gitlab.com/jedie/django-find-my-device.git
~$ cd django-find-my-device
~/django-find-my-device$ ./manage.py
...
(findmydevice) run_dev_server

There is also a docker dev. setup, e.g.:

~/django-find-my-device$ make up

Notes:

• The app will not accept self-signed certificates! So you need to use non-https URLs for testing.
• Django dev server and docker compose will bind to 0.0.0.0:8000 by default! So it's accessible from other devices in your network!

credits

The FindMyDevice concept and the App/Web pages credits goes to Nnulide the creator of the app FindMyDevice.

Currently, we store a copy of html/js/css etc. files from findmydeviceserver/web/ (GNU GPLv3) into our project repository here:

• findmydevice/static/fmd_externals
• findmydevice/web/

This is done by update_fmdserver_files.sh script.

versions

• v0.9.2
  • 2026-01-24 - Update requirements
  • 2025-11-08 - Fix adb_grant_fmd_rights.sh - permission must be set one by one!
  • 2025-11-01 - Enhance ADB script and try to set all permissions at once
• v0.9.1
  • 2025-10-30 - Enhance admin around picture
  • 2025-10-30 - Remove the index for picture data to fix #9
  • 2025-10-30 - Remove brackets from admin link
  • 2025-10-30 - Add a link on the FMD web page into the Django Admin
  • 2025-10-30 - Redirect to login page directly
  • 2025-10-30 - Update requirements
• v0.9.0
  • 2025-10-27 - Fix publishing
  • 2025-10-27 - NEW: Support to store and fetch pictures
  • 2025-10-27 - fix commands by storing all data and return it
  • 2025-10-27 - Add GetAllLocationsView
  • 2025-10-27 - fix push notification
  • 2025-10-27 - Fix broken html
  • 2025-10-27 - Update static html files (patched) from origin project
  • 2025-10-27 - Add test for PUT command
  • 2025-10-27 - Update PUT command: Seems that "Data" can't be None
  • 2025-10-27 - Fix dev. usage: We need the cache!
  • 2025-10-27 - fix web page access and tests
  • 2025-10-27 - gitlab.com/Nulide/findmydeviceserver/ -> gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-server/
  • 2025-10-27 - expand logging if password is OK
  • 2025-10-27 - add "(Django Find My Device)" suffix to version, so it's displayed in the app
  • 2025-10-26 - Update client: Use correct /api/v1/ prefix
  • 2025-10-26 - comment deny_any_real_request() because of LiveServerTestCase
  • 2025-10-26 - Update PyCharm configs
  • 2025-10-26 - Bump version to v0.9.0 because is't the min. version
  • 2025-10-26 - fix docker setup
  • 2025-10-26 - Bugfix docker image build via "make build"
  • 2025-10-26 - cleanup: remove obsolete files
  • 2025-10-26 - Fix api/v1 prefix and serve ds.html page
  • 2025-10-26 - Update snapshot files
  • 2025-10-26 - Add PyCharm run config files
  • 2025-10-26 - Update project setup
  • 2024-07-03 - Use getpass() in CLI
• v0.4.1
  • 2024-06-18 - fix CI
  • 2024-06-18 - Manually append slash redirect only for /admin/
  • 2024-06-18 - Fix WebPageRedirectView: Use full url
  • 2024-06-18 - Update history