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Any apps to find your phone if it's on mute? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My wife and I regularly misplace our phones in the house and we also keep them on mute like 99% of the time.

Are there any apps that allow us to ping the other ones phone audibly despite it being on mute?

One is a oneplus 6t the other a s23 ultra if that makes a difference

EDIT: I found a solution i like; Homeassistant with TTS Notifications. Of couse you can still list some apps and solutions for others to find, but i am happy now!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The homeassist app let's you do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we have them both installed... Can you point me to where exactly I can ping?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

use the notification service for your phone, on Android set the message to TTS, in the data use the below

ttl: 0 priority: high media_stream: alarm_stream tts_text: HELP, Im lost can you hear me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hm it doesn't get throught my phone being on mute 🤔

No sound coming through

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just run this and my android phone on vibrate just did the announcement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Awesome, that works - Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://i.imgur.com/6crwFBJ.png

Like this?

It throws me errors about extra keys not being provided

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Your missing message of TTS, android needs that to know to say the text

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'll try that right away! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for answering, I didn't see this.