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Car Installs - Triggering a Tasker Task from Keyboard

Hi,
I am having difficulty getting something I would think easy to work on my Nexus for my car install.
I was wondering how people are getting tasker tasks to be triggered off keyboard hotkeys when using either their Joycon or a standard external keyboard.
It seems from research the way to do this used to be quick launch shortcuts (assigning search key + a letter) to an app or shortcut but it seems these do not work for me in android 4.4?
External keyboard helper lets you launch applications from hotkeys, but seems to give no way of launching tasker tasks.
This is really doing my head in! From youtube it looks like others have no issues doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Well, the only thing I can think of right now is to use a Tasker Scene with a focused textbox to detect the keys. You will have to run this scene as a dialog, and deal with all the complications with that... (touch disabled outside of dialog, etc) but here's another idea.
You could use a mobile bluetooth keyboard (or any keyboard that has volume/brightness keys) and have a Tasker profile pick up a change in the ringer volume variable, this would give you 2 or 3 hotkeys (vol up, down, or mute). If you don't have a keyboard like that you could edit the Android keymappings under /system/usr/keylayout/General.kl to incorporate volume changes under some key.
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Good idea with detecting the variable changes! I'm using an Arduino Micro which emulates a keyboard so I will have no problem emulating them via buttons & changing the keyboard layout kl if nessesary. Thanks

I am currently working on the same topic: Here is my workaround for trigger a task with an external bluetooth keyboard.
create a task in Tasker
create an app of this task with Tasker App Factory
remap a key of the keyboard to the new app with External Keyboard Helper
Finish
Maybe this is helpful
Thomas

What are you trying to accomplish?

Lokifish Marz said:
What are you trying to accomplish?
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1. With a bluetooth remote (Satechi BT MediaRemote) i want to switch between the homescreen by pushing a key. (launcher nova and tasker secure settings are necessary)
2. a tasker scenes (dialog) with different options should open by pushing another key. Navigation in the scene should do also with the Bluetooth remote (not yet finish).
The goal is an intuitive handling of the tablet ui in the car with less touch-input on the screen. Something like Audi MMI or BMW idrive.
In my opinion to find icon on the homescreen while driving is difficult.

Here is my current set up.
Nexus 7 (In dash)
Center console mounted volume dial with push to mute (Tablet>dial>amp)
(Not shown in the screencap is that the media widget is also in the Navbar and accessed via a softkey in the navbar)
The console dial was initially a USB 5 button mouse with key remapping but required the amp gain be cranked up which caused issues.
Now for full control you need the following;
(Some of these things can be eliminated with voice controls)
Media Control (Previous, Play/Pause, Next, Playlist, etc.)
Directional controls (Up, Down, Left, Right)
Action Controls (Select, Home, Back, Recent, Menu)
Phone Control (Answer, Hangup, Dialpad)
SMS Control (Full KB or voice to text using a noise canceling mic)
If you skip voice control and you don't count the dialpad or KB, you need 15 buttons or adaptive input based on what app is running but still need at least 5-6 buttons. I am not sure how involved implementation of adaptive input would be as I gave up after days of trying to get it just right.
With the Satechi BT MediaRemote, you can cover most of this by key remapping but have to remember what keys are what. The advantage of proper key remapping is that it removes the need for additional apps to get it to work.
Seeing that I'm not sure how complete of a setup you are trying to get, it's hard to offer anymore advice.

Turn off capacitive buttons

There has to be a way to do this, but my google-fu has failed me. I just rooted my turbo and would love to download an xposed module or something that lets me toggle using the hardware capacitive buttons and using an on screen navbar. I know i can do it by editing the files, but ideally I want a toggle in the quick settings I can turn on when I am watching a long video or something and want to be able to grip the phone by its chin without exiting the app.
Anyone know an xposed module or root app that can make this possible?
Thanks!

Use lux auto brightness!

I'd like an app that auto turned off the button back lighting when an app is in immersive mode(such as full screen video) and there is no screen input or button presses for 10 seconds or so. Basically it should behave the same way it would on a phone with onscreen buttons and how they hide after a specified amount of time and video goes to full screen. This is really something Motorola should have added by default.

ankurcshah said:
Use lux auto brightness!
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I do! but all the does is turn off the backlight, I want the keys to actually not work so I can rest my thumb over them, like on the OnePlus One.

That is not possible mate.

Open Google Slide presentation directly in presentation mode on a device

I have made a presentation in Google Slides which I show to people on my mobile phone every day using the Google Slides App. I have made a shortcut to the presentation on my home screen. When I press the shortcut it opens the Googe Slides App in edit mode. I then have to press the play button. Then I get a menu where I need to press Present on this device. The it will run my presentation in the presentation mode.
I'm a looking for a way to skip all this and make some shortcut to open my presentation directly in presentation mode. I can't find a way in the app to do this. Is this possible somehow? Maybe with tasker?

JW24 said:
I have made a presentation in Google Slides which I show to people on my mobile phone every day using the Google Slides App. I have made a shortcut to the presentation on my home screen. When I press the shortcut it opens the Googe Slides App in edit mode. I then have to press the play button. Then I get a menu where I need to press Present on this device. The it will run my presentation in the presentation mode.
I'm a looking for a way to skip all this and make some shortcut to open my presentation directly in presentation mode. I can't find a way in the app to do this. Is this possible somehow? Maybe with tasker?
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The only thing Tasker will do for you is automate the touches required to go from edit to presentation. I'm not sure that really gets you anything.
I think the only way to skip edit mode is to publish the presentation to the web.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

In a task, add the Launch App action. In the app icon browser, long-click on Slides. There will be a lot of options. I don't use the program, but I know with maps you can go straight to the Navigate screen doing this. See if you can find the screen that starts in Present mode, or at least not Edit mode.

How to toggle navigation keys via Bixby Button

So i have been using my phone in Immersive mode, love having the extra space and no black borders.
But i find swiping up to activate the navigation keys abit touchy sometimes, More so when browsing the web or reddit and i end up scrolling back to the top just to activate the nav keys.
Does anyone know a way to Re-Map the Bixby button to toggle the display of the Nav keys?

You could try BXActions from the play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.bxactions . This may allow it or you can assign the button to a Tasker task.

dave7802 said:
So i have been using my phone in Immersive mode, love having the extra space and no black borders.
But i find swiping up to activate the navigation keys abit touchy sometimes, More so when browsing the web or reddit and i end up scrolling back to the top just to activate the nav keys.
Does anyone know a way to Re-Map the Bixby button to toggle the display of the Nav keys?
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Yes,
i agree with rob_h (above post) re bxActions.
See screenshots.
Unfortunately you must have the premium version (paid) of bxActions.
I use it and works fine. No issues.
You can either set it to toggle per app or otherwise.
No root required, only a simple ADB command on a pc.
Good luck

Camera shortcut

Hi,
I'd like to implement a camera shortcut other than the stock one with the volume rocker, as that is really awkward when trying to adjust volume.
On LineageOS and stock Samsung S7 software, you can set double press home to launch the camera. On most android phones you can use a double press of the power button.
Can either of these things be activated on the P20 Pro through and app or module?
I really miss that feature.

A workaround would be using for example "Edge Gesture" . You can configure different gestures on the edges to open up the Camera App or any other App. For example whenever I hold the right display edge for 1s, it will open up the camera.
I would also be interested in a solution involving physical buttons. But at least you won't miss the shot so easily anymore.

Hi,
I'd like to have a shortcut on my homescreen to e.g. pro-mode and monochrome. Alas, when long-pressing the camera app symbol, it only gives me choices I don't want. Is there any way to get other camera modes as shortcuts apart from those?
greetings