# Mobilephone as device **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 7, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833 "2022-11-07T11:59:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arovik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arovik/32/35065_2.png) [@arovik](https://community.homey.app/u/arovik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833/1 "2022-11-07T11:59:20Z")
Hi. Why can’t our phones be devices in homey, like home assistant do. This will give us the ability to read battery data etc directly into homey. ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833/2 "2022-11-07T13:04:20Z")
> [@arovik](#): > > Hi. > Why can’t our phones be devices in homey, This is a community forum and your posts, questions and suggestions will not be read by Athom. You can read more about this here [Welcome to the forum.](https://community.homey.app/t/welcome-to-the-forum/31). If you want to make this as a Feature Request please discuss it with Community peers to define what would be requirements and nice to have features for it. If that results in enough users wanting this and Athom understands the added value it could be that it will be picked up by them and prioritized . ---
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833/3 "2022-11-08T14:29:08Z")
As it seems you are using HomeAssistant in addition to Homey, you can import your mobile phone sensors to Homey using the HA Community app. Forum: > [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Home Assistant - Community App](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-home-assistant-community-app/71477): > > Home Assistant - Community App [[large]](https://homey.app/a/io.home-assistant.community/) Happy with this app? Thank you for supporting community app development with a small donation via PayPal (send to friends). [[btn\_donate\_LG1] ](https://paypal.me/winklerronny) This Homey app adds support for many devices, scripts & scenes of your Home Assistant installation. Currently the following device types are supported: Switches Buttons Lights Sensors and Binary Sensors Media Players Climate Presence Scenes Scripts Compound (combined & customizable devi… App: > **[Home Assistant Community | Homey](https://homey.app/en-us/app/io.home-assistant.community/Home-Assistant-Community/)** > > Connect to Home Assistant ---
**Author:** ![Lichtenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lichtenberg/32/36370_2.png) [@Lichtenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Lichtenberg)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833/4 "2022-11-16T22:35:18Z")
> **[Connect Life360](https://homey.app/da-dk/app/com.cyclone-software.life360/Connect-Life360/)** > > Show your Life360 App location information on homey All you need + more ---
**Author:** ![Lichtenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lichtenberg/32/36370_2.png) [@Lichtenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Lichtenberg)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/mobilephone-as-device/71833/6 "2022-11-17T13:45:09Z")
@arovik > **[The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its...](https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user)** > > The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements Yeah, Life360 its shady, I’m a premium purchaser though, with all the anti-privacy bells and whistles disabled within the app. Altough unless you dont use google (gmail, maps, contacts , etc) every single footprint is tracked anyways…