Description

This app allows you to ask Alexa to locate devices in your apple iCloud account.

For example,

You: Alexa, ask iCloud to find my phone

Alexa: As of a few seconds ago, your phone is less than 10 feet away

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You: Alexa, ask iCloud to find my wife

Alexa: As of a few seconds ago, your wife is 3 miles away, nearby 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC. Approximate driving time: 2 hours and 30 minutes

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You: Alexa, ask iCloud to alert my phone

Alexa: Your phone will now beep.

Install

Get the alexa-app-server running on your server. Follow the instructions in the alexa-app-server readme.

Download this repo, and copy it to apps/findmyphone and run npm install

• Rename or copy the config-sample.json to config.json
• Edit the contents accordingly with your iCloud user/pass
• Edit the latitude/longitude of your home, so that the app can measure distance
• Add your devices to the deviceMap object; each key is the name you want to call the device

Connect with amazon

• Create a developers account on Amazon
• Create a new skill
  • Name it whatever
  • Invocation name can be iCloud
  • Intents and utterances can be determined by going to http://localhost:8080/alexa/findmyphone
  • Configure SSL, and test the app via the Amazon website
• At this point you can try it on your Echo