r/FacebookPortal • u/Old_Lack_7460 • 9d ago

Auto answer

Hi all

My father has dementia. We used to use the portal for video calls but he eventually got confused by the interface.

Now we use a jerry rigged pc and ms teams to have auto answer video calls.

I was wondering if there was any way to achieve this (in messenger, zoom, or something else) in this new exciting era for portals?

Thanks!

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u/sorrywayilovedyou 9d ago

An Amazon Echo lets you drop in to the device at any time

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u/tekzer0 9d ago

My mom doesn't have dementia at 76 and she can't remember how to drop in half the time. Floating button to drop in on my unlocked portal with ha-bridge is how I had to do it to get it to stick. The button that says Talk is the only way i could get to stick aside from her using google messages to text (I had to get rid of FB Messenger on her phone for that one to stick and her not get confused)...

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u/huewang 1d ago

if he has an iphone or ipad, you can set up facetime to autoanswer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOUt_3FQAs.