Find my phone with Alexa

Hi! I’d like to make the find my phone function of the iCloud binding available via Amazon Alexa. The Alexa skill supports mobile phones, but only for PowerState, BatteryLevel and NetworkAccess. So, I was thinking of creating a scene that triggers the find-my-phone function. Or are there any better ideas out there? :slight_smile:

Isn’t PowerState enough let Alexa turn on the findMyPhone trigger switch to trigger the icloud binding function ?

Yes, you are right, not much other use for that property anyway. It works perfectly fine that way, but I was hoping for a more natural language. Something like “Alexa, find Robert’s iPhone” instead of “Alexa, turn on Robert’s iPhone”. But that is a minor detail, happy that it works as it is. :slight_smile:

Define that phrase in the Alexa app as a routine and let it turn on the switch for you.

Thanks, I was not aware of that „phrase“ feature, I‘ll give it a try!

You could create a scene as well. Scenes aren’t associated to a specific device on the Alexa side. That’s why these don’t appear under discovered devices. So you wouldn’t define your item as MobilePhone but just as Scene, which can be used in a routine as @Wolfgang_S suggested.