Looking for a workaround to find our devices after working shifts?Solved

Hey man, I feel your pain. I manage the IT for a mid-sized retail chain and we had the exact same issue with our floor staff leaving inventory scanners in fitting rooms and stockroom shelves at closing time. Babysitting the console every night gets old fast.

You are definitely on the right track looking at the Automations feature! Since the native Remote Ring button is technically an on-demand admin action, you have two really cool ways to automate this depending on how your floor operates:

1. The Scheduled Script Route (Best for your 5:00 PM goal)

Instead of manually clicking Remote Ring, you can use the Automate tab to schedule the Remote Ring action to run on your Android device group every day at exactly 5:00 PM. You just go to Automate > New Automation, select Android, and use the Remote Ring under Security action block. Hexnode executes the remote action right on schedule, the tablets start singing, and you don’t even have to be logged in.

2. The Geofence / Compliance Route (Best for preventing theft/wandering)

If you ever want to trigger it based on location rather than time, you can set up a Geofence around the warehouse. If a worker accidentally walks out into the parking lot with a tablet in their apron, the device becomes “Non-Compliant.” You can set up an automated compliance action so that the second it breaches the fence, it automatically triggers an alert or even throws it into Lost Mode (which triggers a continuous ring).

For your daily roundup, definitely try the Scheduled Automation. I set this up for our retail stores to go off 10 minutes before closing, and it completely eliminated our “missing device” hunts. Let me know if you need a hand, it’s a lifesaver!