Any apps to find your phone if it's on mute?

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!

Donut ,

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

RandomLegend OP ,
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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 ,

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!

AnonStoleMyPants ,

Tasker task that puts sound on when receiving a txt with some string of words. Should work.

RandomLegend OP ,
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I assume I'd have to create a task that turns up the volume first then. But that should work!

I'll use this approach if I don't find anything else that just works and does this one thing

Dymonika ,

Consider MacroDroid, which is free if you use no more than 5 macros.

Wojwo ,

The homeassist app let's you do that.

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

mhzawadi ,

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?

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

No sound coming through

mhzawadi ,

https://lemmy.horwood.cloud/pictrs/image/6953f98d-3f33-4cfd-9c9d-e0e02da1bb04.png

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

Bishma ,
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I have my phone set so that that if people ring twice in quick succession it will still ring even if it's in DND. And that will also work with the Ring function built into GSConnect/KDE Connect. I ring my phone from my laptop, wait a few seconds, then ring again.

So far no one has used it get past my DND.

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