A simple console app/library/service to allow you to quickly ping and locate your iOS device.

This code is pretty old, the UI code is practically fossilized. It does still work however. Apple has not changed the API, gobeepme will still beep you!

If you're like me, you are always putting your iPhone face down on a couch or table somewhere and forgetting where you put it. Especially if it's face-down on a dark surface (and you have a dark colored iPhone). It always results in having to login to iCloud on my laptop and sending a sound to my iPhone. This is annoying - so I wanted something simpler. I wanted to simply ask my Amazon Echo where my phone was and simply have it beep. That would require some kind of hosted service, so I built this!

• Runs as an interactive console application that you can step through.
• Runs as a http service over TLS with very simple JSON API.

There is a simple UI available if you run make ui. It's old, but it still works well.

Check out the code.

git clone https://github.com/daveshanley/gobeepme.git

The project is now using go modules, so just type:

go build gobeepme.go

Then you should be able to run ./gobeepme

To run the console, simply run the gobeepme executable from a console. You will be guided from there. You can also supply a number of flags to avoid typing them in. The flags are:

Usage of ./gobeepme:
  -msg string
        Message to be sent to iOS device (default "Beep Beep!")
  -name string
        Name of the iOS device you want to beep
  -user string
        Your iCloud ID / AppleID (normally an email)
  -pass string
        Pretty sure this is self explanatory
  -port int
        (service only) Port to run https service on (default 9443)
  -service
        Run as https service
  -cert string
        (service only) certificate to use
  -key string
        (service only) private server key

The UI is using some old tech, when you build NPM will warn you about stuff, but it won't stop things from working.

make ui

NPM will kick in and will be done after a few seconds. The UI will be compiled and ready to serve by the service.

To run the service you will need an SSL cert/private key. If you don't have this already (most likely you don't) then you can generate a self signed cert using openssl by issuing the following command.

openssl req  -nodes -new -x509  -keyout server.key -out server.cert

Or if you want to run gobeep me as a full stateless service in the cloud, then you will need an actual valid certificate. You can either pay for one of these, or you can use Let's Encrypt for completely free and valid certs (with a short lifetime).

Simply pass in the -service flag, your key and your cert location, and an optional port (defaults to 9443)

./gobeepme -service -port 8888 -key server.key -cert server.cert 

You should then see a message stating:

Starting beepme as a service on port 8888

You can then hit https://localhost:8888 in your web browser (providing you built the UI) and see it in action.

Pretty simple really. The Echo supports IFTTT (If This The That). You simply need to add the IFTTT channel to your Echo and use a simple recipe to trigger an IFTTT Maker event when you speak a trigger word. To make this simple, I have created a gobeepme sample recipe it's the same one that I also use daily.

The service request for a beep is dead simple.

{"apple_id": "your_id","password":"your_passwd", "name":"device_name","message":"Beep Beep!"}

The service endpoint is /beep, requires the data to be a POST and the content-type needs to be application/json