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!
Can you not whitelist each other as a contact that will override the mute?
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
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!
Shit, I didn’t know that, thank you for sharing, imma set mine and my wives phones up now.
Yeah that doesn’t appear to work when you don’t use the do not disturb setting. We just turn down the volume
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.
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).
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.
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
That’s definitely another way to get the phone’s “voice” across! Glad it worked out for you. No more lost phones!
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.
Interesting approach, we are not in DND mode however… Just muted the sounds 🤔
To add to the other suggestion, you could set your default ringtone to silence, then set a custom ringtone for “priority contacts” so they can actually ring you.
