Closed hepcat72 closed 3 years ago
Incidentally, I set up 2 iPads to do the same thing as teleportme, except for the scheduled calls (which I have not investigated - and may(?) be possible...).
There are a few things that must be done:
Siri Shortcut
with a single action: make a facetime call to the other iOS device's iCloud portal account you createdTo manually start the portal, just tap the icon you added to the home screen. Depending on the iOS version, you may end up in the Siri Shortcuts app, which requires a second step of tapping the green bar at the top of the screen to switch to the facetime app. (This was the case for my parents' iPad.)
Either party may start the portal, so I decided that scheduling calls wasn't too important.
You may want to restrict who can call either account so that random people can't just portal with you. You can do this using the do not disturb setting. Read about that here:
https://www.macworld.com/article/3214636/how-to-block-all-calls-except-those-from-your-contacts.html
It also appears that you may be able to create a Siri Shortcut automation that can schedule the calls.
I am considering your cool portal solution as an upgrade to my current paired shared Wyze-cam/iPad setup with my parents (where we each have a Wyze cam and iPad set up, but with which comes annoying issues).
After finding your project and trying to figure out how to accomplish it with my parents, I googled the ability to auto-answer FaceTime calls on an iPad and I discovered that it may be possible:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-use-iphone-auto-answer
Is there any reason this would not work if I set up my parents end using their iPad and set up the call initiating end using an old laptop with Mojave?