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TrackR Bravo support
designmonkey
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Just imagine...
Me: "Hey homey, where are my keys?"
...TrackR Bravo rings for 10 seconds ...
Homey: "Have you found them 'master'?" 
Me: "Yes thank you." ... TrackR Bravo stops.
Or
Me: "No" ... TrackR Bravo rings again..
Possible??
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Well, as a Trackr Bravo user I also see the benefit of this, however, I would think for that there are two options:
The trackr is paired with the Homey (as opposed to your phone as I do not think two devices can be paired with with the same trackr concurrently), this would defeat the purpose of the trackr because you would only need to use it in your house (not to mention, require someone to write a driver for it or the trackr people to write an app for Homey, and I couldn't find any documentation for that).
The Trackr is paired with your phone, when you give the command to your homey, homey connects with your phone's trackr app and tells it to ring the Bravo. I believe this could be workable maintaining current features and adding new ones, BUT it would require either:
2.1 A specific Trackr plugin is developed for Homey, which connects with the Trackr app on your phone through trackr's API. Again, I couldn't find any documentation on such an API and I think this would be a bit hard (but NOT impossible) given that I don't think the app has such remote cappabilities as of today.
2.2 A bit simpler, Trackr gets IFTTT integration and You make such a command through the IFTTT app on homey, which means no need to make a Trackr plugin for homey.
I totally agree with you @CarlosAldredoDiaz, It would be a bit stupid to have trackers paired directly with Homey... And inter-app talks on a mobile device, that would probably not work if the two companies didn't become major buddies, right?
About IFTTT, I've used it for a bunch of things, but never for hardware-related. I became a bit sad when someone here on the forum said that Nuki and Homey would probably only work over IFTTT, seeing that i don't think it's a very fast option...
But I'm interested in where the integration of these trackers heads; I've backed Lapa2, and agree that asking Homey to ring my keys would be pretty awesome!
@tommyjay is right, in app integration=pain in the ass
Now, I've used IFTTT with my hue lamps and it works reasonably well, although we don't know how it would work with the trackr (as there are 3 devices, two apps involved).
I hadn't seen Lapa2, looks cool.
I know there are quite a few alternatives to TrackR Bravo. Perhaps some of them can pair with multiple devices. Pairing only with Homey isn't such a bad idea as I normally only look for my keys in the house anyways and then my both me and my girlfriend can look for the car keys.
@JaapPelt I'm not saying that there's no value in pairing with homey, but most of these trackers also have a "you left your keys behind function" when the tracker is out of range of your phone. Surely, for example putting a tracker on your TV remote that never leaves the house sounds like a good idea. But I guess these are quite specific cases... with tens, if not hundreds of different brand trackers out there, each one with their own app, I just think this is a really really low priority idea/function... unless of course someone with the skills to make a Homey app would want to hijack their tracker for this purpose
And sadly that someone isn't me...
I was thinking about attaching one to the remote only to realize Homey will also replace the remote :-)
True dat