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@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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 [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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.spaceEnglish
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        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!