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Make a phone call from another smartphone

Can you add the feature to make a call from another smartphone? Like the "Make a phone call" from Chrome Extension. It could be useful for whom, like me, uses the first smartphone as a dashboard in car and want to make a phone call from the second smartphone.

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MP

Would it be possible to use Actions and Tasker somehow? 

There are two cases when I would like top be able to initiate a call on my other phone. 

  1. Scroll through my contacts list and select a person to call. 
  2. Follow a phone link or copy a phone number and send it to the other phone to call. 

Yes, you can send a request with Join to the other phone, have Tasker react to it and then start a phone call from there :)

MP

Ok. Great!

How do I move on with Tasker to do this then? I have never used Tasker and need help to make this possible. 

There seemed to be some problem with the forum so I couldn't search for help there. 

Hhmm I had a method to do 1 but for some reason it isn't working right now, sorry! I'll have to add a way to do it in Tasker. About following a link I don't think that'll work unfortunately. About copying, yes, you can react to the phone number being copied by using the Variable Value event in Tasker with the %CLIP variable. Then you can send the phone number with Join to your other phone from the task with the Join Send Push action. 

Check out an example here: https://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?resources/setting-a-variable-on-a-remote-device.184/

It's a bit of a convoluted task for a beginner so please let me know if you have any trouble.

MP

Any news on this idea?

I would really like to see this feature come true!

Hi there. Not very high priority I'm afraid :(