Hello!
I've been looking around the android marketplace and Googling looking for an application that will auto power-down the G-Tablet after a pre-determined length of inactivity (similar to the screen timeout setting).
I've looked around and I can find android apps that turn devices on and off at certain times and even sets different profiles but I don't want it to turn of at a certain time (e.g. 7pm) I want it to turn off, if my case, one hour after inactivity.
Any ideas or apps I've overlooked?
Thanks
johnsonjf said:
Hello!
I've been looking around the android marketplace and Googling looking for an application that will auto power-down the G-Tablet after a pre-determined length of inactivity (similar to the screen timeout setting).
I've looked around and I can find android apps that turn devices on and off at certain times and even sets different profiles but I don't want it to turn of at a certain time (e.g. 7pm) I want it to turn off, if my case, one hour after inactivity.
Any ideas or apps I've overlooked?
Thanks
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Not sure if it can do exactly this, but Tasker is a very robust scripting/action system. Let's you define scripts/actions based on conditions. I've not tried to do what you are after, but it's likely worth a look:
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&feature=search_result
Note that this is a paid app. Might be some similar apps for free. This is the only one I know of.
I'll take a look at it or see if I can dig up some free alternatives. You'd think android would have a feature like this built-in, but I guess since the android tablet market is relatively new, it's not a feature that would be wanted in phones.
I'm willing to bet that Honeycomb has this feature added to it.
I am using new galaxy s8 .
When I am using multi windows on screen, after opening 2nd windows 1st one goes on sleep/pause mode. If I try to keep 1st one awake 2nd one goes on sleep mode.
How can I keep both of them working at the same time?
For example:If I keep YouTube on 1st window and play something and work on second window video is playing perfectly. Same one galley but if I keep the navigation on 1st window and on second window do something else navigation is not working goes on pause. I tried on waze or other software they are remaining pause....
Same situation with my s7 edge. I wanted to test the accuracy of Google map and waze in multi window and one would stop when the other one would work. Trying to find a fix.
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I could see why map and waze wouldn't work at the same time, since both use GPS and for accuracy active mapping program should have full access to GPS. Not sure about other program combinations.
pete4k said:
I could see why map and waze wouldn't work at the same time, since both use GPS and for accuracy active mapping program should have full access to GPS. Not sure about other program combinations.
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Wrong. Multiple apps using the same GPS is not an issue here.
The issue here is probably how the apps is written to handle the onPause() handler.
See here for more detail: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/multi-window.html#lifecycle I am using MX Player + Waze and see the same behavior. But if you look carefully, the screen of waze is not completely stop. The speed meter is in fact updated to your current speed.
So, write to Waze and they may fix it.
So is there no other way to fix this? I would like to play 2 games at the same time in my phone but this issue prevents me from doing so. Im sure that other phones that supports split screen do not have this issue. So maybe this is something on the Samsung S8 side already?
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On my S7 edge, I have Tasker setup usibg Auto Notification to have menus pop up while navigating to allow easy switch between music and navigation screens. For some reason, this causes Tasker to not monitor switching between apps properly, and some plugins like autoshare and even auto notification don't work properly. Tasker basically doesn't work right for several minutes and then it finally catches up and everything starts happening at once. I could really use help with this, it's annoying when Tasker does things 30 minutes after it was supposed to happen at the wrong times.
Is "use reliable alarms" set to always?
Tyler2265 said:
On my S7 edge, I have Tasker setup usibg Auto Notification to have menus pop up while navigating to allow easy switch between music and navigation screens. For some reason, this causes Tasker to not monitor switching between apps properly, and some plugins like autoshare and even auto notification don't work properly. Tasker basically doesn't work right for several minutes and then it finally catches up and everything starts happening at once. I could really use help with this, it's annoying when Tasker does things 30 minutes after it was supposed to happen at the wrong times.
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My heaviest Tasker use is in my car mode....always navigating with Google Maps. I have a ton of profiles which monitor both apps and notifications to make many decisions...with some extremely complex tasks attached.
Everything usually works fine. But sometimes I make a bad task that loops indefinitely, or I have a root or accessibility problem, or for some reason an error occurs in my programming....those kinds issues usually cause major lag or profiles don't fire at all.
I would think that Tasker itself is probably performing as expected and there is an error (or a method that could be better) in your profiles. My advice is to save a run log and review line by line.
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Reliable alarms was set to never. Could that have been my issue? I know for a fact it's Tasker that's the problem cause when I go into Tasker after being on the home screen it still thinks I'm in the maps app. Or the music app. I've reviewed all my tasks very carefully.
Tyler2265 said:
Reliable alarms was set to never. Could that have been my issue?
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I think it's likely. Try it and see if things improve.
ktmom said:
Is "use reliable alarms" set to always?
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ktmom said:
I think it's likely. Try it and see if things improve.
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Didn't end up changing much, at least not yet. See I have a profile for Google maps, Google Music, and home screen so that whenever one of these becomes active, I get a flash popup telling me what app is open. Whenever I start navigation it's like Tasker stops monitoring which app is open. Autoshare stops working too. Whenever I go to use an autoshare action, I get an error. But then that action ends happening later on, even after it gives out an error. I'm not sure what to do.
Maybe you're experiencing a reported conflict with google play services as described in this thread
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Maybe you're experiencing a reported conflict with google play services as described in this thread
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Not sure. It only seems to happen when Google maps is running but even when I do big tasks E.G moving big files using ES File explorer, still seems to cause tasker to struggle. So I'm not sure what to think but I wish it would work properly.
Hi everyone!
After my first plugin I had an idea of creating another one, but this time not an "action" but an "event".
The free but ad-supported version of the plugin can be found here and if you want to support the development and don't have ads you can find the paid one here.
Of course the description can be found there, but as a quick recap, this plugin can listen for hotwords and signal Tasker when a hotword is recognized!
It uses Snowboy Hotword to listen to the mic and process what it hears super fast and completely locally.
Hotword models can be found and trained at the Snowboy Website and the downloaded model can be imported in my plugin.
Next from Tasker you can create an event of the Hotword Plugin and tap on the hotword you want to react to, next you can do with it what you want!
You can listen to multiple hotwords at the same time and run a different event for each one. So for example if you shout "lights on" the lights might turn on and if you shout "play music" the music starts playing.
You can see it as AutoVoice Continuous but a lot faster and more consistent, plus you can train any hotword you like and pronounce it in any language you prefer (to be defined at the website).
Of course you can modify the sensitivity if you feel like it can't hear you or if it goes off all the time and you can start or stop the service via a Tasker action if you like.
Personally I use the app in combination with my ADB shell plugin to launch assistant on my NVIDIA Shield AndroidTV handsfree by shouting "hey google" to an old android phone lying besides the tv.
Since a lot of time went into developing this plugin and making it work (a way lot more than my last plugin) I put it in the Play Store for the price of a small coffee but since I know people like free apps, I decided to also create an add supported version.
Again, you can find the free version here and the ad-free version here (Of course I will update both at about the same time when I fix something).
So if you like the idea and want to try it out please have a look!
And if you have any questions, troubles, ideas, bugs (yes I'm sure they're there even after thoroughly testing), please leave them below!
Edit: If you don't have access to the Google Play store, I just uploaded both versions to XDA Labs:
Paid version
Free version
If you don't have access to the Google Play store, I just uploaded both versions to XDA Labs:
Paid version
Free version
I don't think it is your fault, but it seems that this hot word detection system is way too sensitive for me, it detected words when there were only noises.
sadly, but the idea was promising though
alienyd said:
I don't think it is your fault, but it seems that this hot word detection system is way too sensitive for me, it detected words when there were only noises.
sadly, but the idea was promising though
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That happens when the sensitivity is too high, have you adjusted the sensitivity setting in the app?
For me the same happens when I set the sensitivity to 10 and when I set it to 0, nothing will ever trigger. For the phone and words I'm using, the sweet spot is around 4 or 5
yeah, thanks for the reply. I did play around with the sensitivity on default and then some lower level, however it still seemed to trigger to often. Maybe a little bit more playing around would help, or, may be it's just the nature of my language...
Great app, does the work pretty good but why does it have to disable google assistant. When this app is listening, assistant stops listening. Why can't they both work together. Or can we configure this app to trigger assistant and not the Google app itself.
@Humpie does it work when the screen is off ?
Comparison to Autovoice
Hi,
Just wondering about the difference between this and Autovoice, or if there is an integration that would make sense.
Thanks.
I was hopeful, but even at the lowest sensitivity setting available, it still triggers when the tv is on downstairs and completely quite upstairs.:crying::crying:
ngreen1980 said:
I was hopeful, but even at the lowest sensitivity setting available, it still triggers when the tv is on downstairs and completely quite upstairs.:crying::crying:
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kind of my problem too...
alienyd said:
yeah, thanks for the reply. I did play around with the sensitivity on default and then some lower level, however it still seemed to trigger to often. Maybe a little bit more playing around would help, or, may be it's just the nature of my language...
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I was hopeful, but even at the lowest sensitivity setting available, it still triggers when the tv is on downstairs and completely quite upstairs.:crying::crying:
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kind of my problem too...
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Hmm, what you could try is to download a hotword from snowboy.kitt.ai that is a bit more trained. In my experience they are a lot more consistent and trigger more accurately.
I do find it strange that even the lowest sensitivity setting still triggers it Did you stop and start the service just to be sure after changing it?
I am thinking about enabling more steps of sensitivity btw, but I'm not sure if I can make it even lower. I'll try though
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Great app, does the work pretty good but why does it have to disable google assistant. When this app is listening, assistant stops listening. Why can't they both work together. Or can we configure this app to trigger assistant and not the Google app itself.
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Unfortunately this is how the audio record function works in Android. Only one app at a time can access the microphone. Google has made an exception for the built-in "Okay Google" (and I'm not sure how they do it), but fortunately a workaround is possible. You can enable and disable the listening service of my plugin from within Tasker.
So what you can do is create a new profile for when the event "Hey google" (for instance) in hotword Plugin triggers and create a task wherein you put "stop hotword plugin", "Voice command" (which triggers assistant) and after a while "start hotword plugin" again. (Or you can just enable it yourself from the notification)
It's also possible to stop and start hotword plugin automatically when assistant is in the foreground (I think), but I haven't managed to get it to work myself as Assistant is an overlay app and the detection of which app is running can be a bit slow in Tasker...
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@Humpie does it work when the screen is off ?
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Certainly, yes!
PhilipTD said:
Hi,
Just wondering about the difference between this and Autovoice, or if there is an integration that would make sense.
Thanks.
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My plugin is comparable to the continuous listening mode of AutoVoice, however there is a difference. AutoVoice can continuously listen to what everyone says, convert it to text and then pass that on to Tasker where you can make something happen when a certain word is heard. I did try this before creating this app, but it can be very slow, especially when more words are heard after the hotword you want. AutoVoice will listen until it hears that you stopped talking and then send all it heard to Tasker. It will also often just not get the word correct, so it's not handy to be used as hotword detection.
In comparison, my plugin uses a different engine (not the google speech recognition engine, but Snowboy) which is specifically designed to recognize trained hotwords. So the downside is that you have to train a certain hotword before you can use it, but this does result in a way more accurate detection. It's also way faster as it doesn't have to wait til everyone is silent again and stopped talking, it just instantly triggers after you say the word and signals Tasker.
You can integrate this with AutoVoice if you like, well, more like, let it work together to create something awesome. You can create a task for when a certain hotword is triggered where you stop my plugin from listening, start an AutoVoice prompt where you can say your command (like "set the tv to 10") and then afterwards start my plugin again.
Want to give this a try.
Continuous listening usually leads to too much battery drain.
Is the problem handled in the plugin? Tasker monitors sensors and hardware by intervals which is why it in itself does not eat the battery. Using Tasker's scheme would have (optionally) long waits to test audio when the screen is off.
Where is this "voice command" option.
Could you give us an example of your Tasker settings that allow you to use this instead of gAssistant?
I paid, cause I love this idea. Can't wait to try it, but I wholeheartedly support anything better than "OK Google"!
Dovidhalevi said:
Want to give this a try.
Continuous listening usually leads to too much battery drain.
Is the problem handled in the plugin? Tasker monitors sensors and hardware by intervals which is why it in itself does not eat the battery. Using Tasker's scheme would have (optionally) long waits to test audio when the screen is off.
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It will lead to battery drain, but this is necessary. It would be extremely unreliable if it stopped listening for a while, as in, it would stop working and no longer react to your hotword which defies the entire purpose of the app.
phishfi said:
Where is this "voice command" option.
Could you give us an example of your Tasker settings that allow you to use this instead of gAssistant?
I paid, cause I love this idea. Can't wait to try it, but I wholeheartedly support anything better than "OK Google"!
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"Voice command" can be found under the Tasker actions under the Input tab. Thank you very much
I attached an example of how you can launch assistant whilst pausing my plugin from listening for a while so assistant can actually hear you.
You can execute this task for the hotword event you like so "hey google" or "computer" whatever you like and have set up in the hotword plugin
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It will lead to battery drain, but this is necessary. It would be extremely unreliable if it stopped listening for a while, as in, it would stop working and no longer react to your hotword which defies the entire purpose of the app.
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So the question becomes, with any of these things, how I want to use them. Use a Tasker script to toggle the service. For example, if phone is face down, turn it off. Or if I pick up the phone, turn it on. Scripts have "exit" options to reverse the toggle.
I would want to do this with OK Google as well but this plugin offers the option, Google does not.
Dovidhalevi said:
So the question becomes, with any of these things, how I want to use them. Use a Tasker script to toggle the service. For example, if phone is face down, turn it off. Or if I pick up the phone, turn it on. Scripts have "exit" options to reverse the toggle.
I would want to do this with OK Google as well but this plugin offers the option, Google does not.
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This is indeed possible to achieve with my plugin, however if your phone supports always listening OK Google with screen off already, it usually has a dedicated chip for this that uses very little power. I know my 6P does and leaving OK Google to always listening results in no significant more battery drain
Hi,
I am after double tapping the volume buttons to skip tracks when listening to music, however no solution that has been working with previous phones seems to be working on the P20 Pro for some reason. Running the latest 152 fw, and I have fingerprint unlock enabled.
First, I tried two apps that offer this option: "Smart Pocket" and "Button Mapper". Both these options work when the phone is unlocked and screen turned on (like when you are on the home screen) but they stop working once the screen locks.
Then a user suggested "Pulsar Pro" as a music player that offers this feature. Unfortunately that didn't even work with the screen turned on.
I'm assuming there's something to do with app rights/permissions on the lock screen that prevents apps from using volume buttons to skip tracks? Anyone that has managed to get this feature working somehow? I only got the phone a week ago so anything that requires rooting is not an option...
Thanks
The apps are most likely being killed due to the aggressive governor settings in the kernel. I use a different but similar volume control app and the only solution I've found to keep it in memory is to root your device, use a kernel adjustor to reduce the min free settings, and use Magisk to install it to system-priv. I wanted to avoid root as well but it seems Huawei only wants to keep Huawei apps in memory past a certain point. The lock screen seems unusually aggressive as well, I've yet to be able to unlock my screen with voice commands via Google assistant. Yet another Huawei 'feature' lol. Someone else may have something to add but apps being neutered is one of the most common problems on this phone. Best of luck!
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The apps are most likely being killed due to the aggressive governor settings in the kernel. I use a different but similar volume control app and the only solution I've found to keep it in memory is to root your device, use a kernel adjustor to reduce the min free settings, and use Magisk to install it to system-priv. I wanted to avoid root as well but it seems Huawei only wants to keep Huawei apps in memory past a certain point. The lock screen seems unusually aggressive as well, I've yet to be able to unlock my screen with voice commands via Google assistant. Yet another Huawei 'feature' lol. Someone else may have something to add but apps being neutered is one of the most common problems on this phone. Best of luck!
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I see. Rooting is not even possible for my device it seems. But, the guy just replied to me that it's not the Volume buttons that do the trick on Pulsar player but the play/pause button on the headset. Double tap = next, triple tap = previous, this works on a Mate 10 Pro. Can't try it now as I don't have the headset with me and it's eating me! Anyone care to try this and report?
EPIC update! I tried the double/triple Play button tap in Pulsar player without it having a specific setting about it and it worked. Then I got suspicious due to the lack of such a setting so tried it with the stock Music app and... YES! it skips tracks as well! It seems this is an unknown (to most users) baked-in Huawei feature? Anyway it now does what I was after, and even with the stock Music app, great!
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EPIC update! I tried the double/triple Play button tap in Pulsar player without it having a specific setting about it and it worked. Then I got suspicious due to the lack of such a setting so tried it with the stock Music app and... YES! it skips tracks as well! It seems this is an unknown (to most users) baked-in Huawei feature? Anyway it now does what I was after, and even with the stock Music app, great!
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Ahhh, I did know about the inline headphone controls but that's different from what you were trying to accomplish. That's great news though! This phone is amazing, I hope you have a great time with it.
djparent said:
Ahhh, I did know about the inline headphone controls but that's different from what you were trying to accomplish. That's great news though! This phone is amazing, I hope you have a great time with it.
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Technically yes, but the intention was to be able to skip tracks while listening without having to unlock the phone, and without voice commands. Which button I would press to achieve the skipping was not important and yes, i'm very happy now.
Hi,
i've found the solution.
i had the same problem. I used frinky music controller for that feature.
It always stopped workng after 5 seconds.
go to settings -> Apps & Notification -> Apps -> Frinky Music Controller (or what App you are using for this) -> Battery -> App launch -> turn off "Manage automatically". that will stop killing the process. And turn on "Auto launch" and "run in Background" I keeped "secondary launch " too but i guess its unnecessary, because i don't know any usage for this. but maybe someone need it..
That way worked on my p20. should be the same on the pro.
greetings
As a user of Huawei phone must say that Frinky app works. But when you increase volume, to continue skipping tracks forward you must press volume down one time. And vice versa: after decreasing volume it is necessary to press increase volume button one time to be able to go to previous track