Hi again everyone.
I've tried many ways around a specific automation I'm trying to make work, but have hit nothing but dead ends. Maybe someone will think of something else...
Situation: I have two devices, one of which is a work issued managed phone. I only use it for work, and it doesn't have a SIM card - it only connects through Wifi. I do need to take it with me once in a while, and I'm trying to set a macro up that would essentially "tell" my other phone to turn its hotspot on. I have MD on both phones, but the work phone is severely limited (can't sideload, no ADB, etc). The issue of course is, how can I "tell" my personal phone anything if it loses connection?! I am trying to avoid triggering the scenario from my personal phone as I don't always carry both and I don't want the hotspot to turn on without reason.
I tried to use a Bluetooth LE beacon, and it's the closest I got to success; I downloaded a small BTLE beacon simulator app on the work phone, and a macro on my personal phone that would turn on tethering when it detected the beacon. Works like a charm, except that the app doesn't support intents and is quite bare bones: the only way I found to turn the beacon on is through UI interaction, which doesn't work if the phone is locked/screen off. If I need to interact with my work device then I might as well just turn on the tethering manually so... It's the only app I found that worked at all as a BTLE transmitter too.
I didn't find another way to have two devices to communicated without both being somewhat connected to the internet, and obviously that's kind of the issue.
I thinking of setting up some kind of dead man's switch, passing a variable from one device to the other on a set timer. My issue is that this forces me to initiate the check from my personal phone and I'm trying to avoid this (unless I'm missing something of course). Furthermore, I fear battery life will be affected on both phones if I have too high a frequency, while the whole thing becoming useless if too low. I thought of going through IFTTT but I can't quite figure out how to trigger a recipe when something stops, as opposed to starts.
So yeah, that's where I'm at. It's such a small thing, yet so complicated! I really don't need this, just kinda want it to work... I'm so deep into this I'm starting to look at setting up something with webhooks and uptimerobot but talk about freaking overkill lol
Anyway, long one, but if any of you fine folks think of something I'm all ears!!
Thanks
I've tried many ways around a specific automation I'm trying to make work, but have hit nothing but dead ends. Maybe someone will think of something else...
Situation: I have two devices, one of which is a work issued managed phone. I only use it for work, and it doesn't have a SIM card - it only connects through Wifi. I do need to take it with me once in a while, and I'm trying to set a macro up that would essentially "tell" my other phone to turn its hotspot on. I have MD on both phones, but the work phone is severely limited (can't sideload, no ADB, etc). The issue of course is, how can I "tell" my personal phone anything if it loses connection?! I am trying to avoid triggering the scenario from my personal phone as I don't always carry both and I don't want the hotspot to turn on without reason.
I tried to use a Bluetooth LE beacon, and it's the closest I got to success; I downloaded a small BTLE beacon simulator app on the work phone, and a macro on my personal phone that would turn on tethering when it detected the beacon. Works like a charm, except that the app doesn't support intents and is quite bare bones: the only way I found to turn the beacon on is through UI interaction, which doesn't work if the phone is locked/screen off. If I need to interact with my work device then I might as well just turn on the tethering manually so... It's the only app I found that worked at all as a BTLE transmitter too.
I didn't find another way to have two devices to communicated without both being somewhat connected to the internet, and obviously that's kind of the issue.
I thinking of setting up some kind of dead man's switch, passing a variable from one device to the other on a set timer. My issue is that this forces me to initiate the check from my personal phone and I'm trying to avoid this (unless I'm missing something of course). Furthermore, I fear battery life will be affected on both phones if I have too high a frequency, while the whole thing becoming useless if too low. I thought of going through IFTTT but I can't quite figure out how to trigger a recipe when something stops, as opposed to starts.
So yeah, that's where I'm at. It's such a small thing, yet so complicated! I really don't need this, just kinda want it to work... I'm so deep into this I'm starting to look at setting up something with webhooks and uptimerobot but talk about freaking overkill lol
Anyway, long one, but if any of you fine folks think of something I'm all ears!!
Thanks