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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] Donut@leminal.space 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you not whitelist each other as a contact that will override the mute?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not quite sure where i would do that in either of those settings.

We don't use the google contacts app and the ones we use don't have anything like that. Settings are pretty convoluted and the search function doesn't help me

[–] Donut@leminal.space 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Settings > Sounds & Vibration > Do Not Disturb > Select "Favorites" in the drop down under Exceptions.

Then in your contacts app, favorite each other and test it out!

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that doesn't appear to work when you don't use the do not disturb setting. We just turn down the volume

[–] Donut@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

While that's fine, that's not exactly the intended use so that's why you are running into problems as you can't force volume to go up from another phone.

Start putting on DnD instead of lowering your ring volume to zero, and you can make it work.

If you don't want to deviate from your out of the ordinary use case, then your best bet is some parental control app that allows you to view each other's location.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks to another user i got home assistant notifications with TTS running.

So everything can stay muted and i can let the phone talk via home assistant. Neat part is that this works even with both our phones lost and i can just ask my voice assistant where my phone is and it starts speaking

[–] Donut@leminal.space 4 points 6 months ago

That's definitely another way to get the phone's "voice" across! Glad it worked out for you. No more lost phones!

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. Having your phone on silent isn't an out-of-the-ordinary use.

I despise listening to various pings, but still want my phone to vibrate and the screen to turn on. Most people at work/school do the same.

"Do not disturb" is for specific, short durations, or while you sleep (if you don't turn your phone off).

[–] Donut@leminal.space 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I should have been a bit more clear, I meant putting your phone on silent and still wanting to be able to call each other / ping each other to make a noise.

THAT use case is pretty rare.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Its probably the "each other" that makes it trickier. I do ping my watch with an audible ring from my watch to find it, even though it's always on silent.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Shit, I didn't know that, thank you for sharing, imma set mine and my wives phones up now.