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Gear S2 send voice text from watch to phone and run tasker tasks

Send voice commands that you speak into the Gear S2 and have them transmit to your phone to run tasker tasks!
I made a youtube video of how it works : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXLeuY4sIc
I recently switched from a Pebble Time Round to a Gear S2. Pebble was very easy to run tasker apps from the watch including voice commands. Now with the Gear S2 it's a different story with the Tizen OS - not much support for this. I've seen some requests made to joaomgcd as he's done some amazing stuff for Tasker but the Tizen watches are too expensive for him to develop on.
I was trying to find a way to send voice commands that I spoke into the Gear S2 and have them transmit to my phone to run tasker tasks. I searched high and low and see that there are may others trying to so the same thing. There is the TaskS2 that lets you press the screen on the phone to run tasker apps which is good but doesn't capture text. So I came up with a work-around to be able to speak into the watch and have it run tasker tasks on the phone using the text that I spoke into the watch
**How it works once you have everything setup:**
1) The Gear S2 with the command "text" will send text info to a contact. So to get our text we will create a dummy contact.
2) Define a wake up command on the Gear S2 such as "OK Google". With your screen ready say to the watch "OK Google"
3) When the prompt comes up, say to the watch something like "Text Samsung task to deposit cheque at bank"
What this does is it recognizes the 'Text' command as sending a SMS text message to a contact called "Samsung" (which is a dummy contact). When the confirmation then it shows you the text on the watch, say "OK"
4) It then will send your phone an outgoing text message to the contact "Samsung" with the text as "task to deposit cheque at bank". The word "text" gets dropped as it's the command and "Samsung" gets dropped as it's the dummy contact it sends the message to
5) Now the contact on your phone "Samsung" has one text message with the message "Text Samsung task to deposit cheque at bank" - Yay! we now have useable text that we spoke into our Gear S2 and through the magic of bluetooth is now on our phone and we can use as a cliboard variable in tasker!
6) Macro Droid is then triggered by the fact that an outgoing sms event occurred that you told it to monitor the specific contact "Samsung". From here an action in MacroDroid is used to call a tasker task (Macro driod can use LOCALE/Tasker plugins - I used Secure settings - tasker shortcut). The tasker task then extracts the text from the Samsung contact, copies it to clipboard, deletes the outgoing text message so it's fresh for another new message, and can then other tasker steps with the text now in the clipboard.
The hardest thing I found was trying to capture the outgoing sms event as a trigger as tasker only deals with it's own "SMS sent successful" - it doesn't capture any broadcast receiver intent or ContentObserver from the SMS application on the phone and therefore no trigger once the text has been sent out. That's where after trial and error with some apps, I stumbled upon MacroDroid. This is what closed the loop on the solution - where it monitors that text being sent out by the dummy contact and it works very well for this.
**Requirements:**
-Tasker
-AutoInput tasker plugin - to simulate screen clicks and type in info)
-Macro Droid - to capture the event of sms sent when a dummy contact is used and trigger the tasker tasks
Optional
-Secure settings tasker plugin - for 'clear password' to turn screen on if you want, also for Macro Droid to run a tasker shortcut
**Steps:**
1) Create a dummy contact. I used "Samsung" as my contact name. Give it a dummy 10 digit phone number with a valid area code. I used (416)000-0000
2) Create your tasker tasks
Task 1: using Autoinput: launch contacts, lookup contact samsung, press the sms icon, long click on the message that the Gear S2 sent, copy to clipboard, delete the message - task done - you now have the text in a variable called %CLIP. At the end of this task call the next task
Task 2: now that you have the text the %CLIP variable, you can set a new variable and copy to say %CLIP1 and search and replace and remove any text you don't need. For example: "task to deposit cheque at bank" can be massaged using variable search and replace to something like "to deposit cheque at bank". In this task you can create if, else, then statements. For example:
a) "Text Samsung task to deposit cheque at bank" - if %CLIP matches reggex keyword .*task*. then run a task such as a reminder application like DGT
b) "Text Samsung drive to work" if %CLIP = keyword "drive to work" then run a task such as launching a shortcut for google maps or waze
Task 3: if needed, you can then run some clean up tasks like to close the contact & message app so it's not open in the back ground. I use 1) Go Home 2) Run Shell input keyevent 187 3) wait 1 second 4) AutoInput Action: Close all Action
3) Create a Macro in Macro droid 1) Trigger "SMS Sent to Contact" - specify contact as "Samsung" and SMS text "Any" . 2) action Locale/ Tasker plugin - Secure Settings - Execute Shortcut - choose the tasker task that you want to then run from step 2
**Here are the 2 tasker tasks:**
**1st) to deal with the capturing text on dummy contact:**
A1: Secure Settings [ Configuration:Clear Password Timeout (Seconds):0 ]
A2: Launch App [ App:Contacts Data: Exclude From Recent Appsff Always Start New Copyff ]
A3: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Search
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A4: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Search
Text to Write : samsung
Action : Write
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A5: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Id
Value: com.android.contacts:id/cliv_name_textview
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A6: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:2 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A7: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Send message
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A8: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:2 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A9: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Point
Value: 1292,582
Action : Long Click
Is Tasker Action: true
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A10: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Copy text
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A11: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: More
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A12: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Delete
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A13: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: All
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A14: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Delete
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A15: AutoInput Action [ Configuration:Type: Text
Value: Delete
Action : Click
Is Tasker Action: false
Check Screen State: false Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A16: Variable Set [ Name:%CLIP1 To:%CLIP Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsff Appendff ]
A17: Perform Task [ Name:GR If Cond Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
**2nd) task to run IF statements based on keyword**
A1: Flash [ Text:%CLIP Longff ]
A2: If [ %CLIP ~R .*tomorrow.*Task.*|.*Task.*tomorrow.* ]
A3: Perform Task [ Name:TV GTD remindr tomor Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
A4: Else If [ %CLIP ~R .*Task.* ]
A5: Perform Task [ Name:TV GTD remindr Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
A6: Else If [ %CLIP eq Drive to work ]
A7: Perform Task [ Name:Wazewk Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
A8: Else If [ %CLIP eq Drive to home ]
A9: Perform Task [ Name:Wazehm Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
A10: Else If [ %CLIP ~R .*Text.* ]
A11: Perform Task [ Name:TV Type Priority:%priority Parameter 1 (%par1): Parameter 2 (%par2): Return Value Variable: Stopff ]
A12: End If

[Tutorial] Send Scheduled Group SMS (with Second Sim)

If you only have one SIM then you can use
Task-> Phone -> Send SMS
For sending message from second SIM read below
.Make a new profile with Event time.
Click new Task.
#1
Select System -> Send Intent
In the Send intent do the following settings.
Action -> android.intent.action.VIEW
Data -> sms: xxxxxx,xxxxxx,... (Separate numbers by comma)
Extra -> sms_body: your_text
Target -> Activity
# 2
Select -> Plugins -> AutoInput -> Action
In the AutoInput do the following settings
Click on the pencil button to do the configuration
Here you can select the easy setup option and follow screen instructions or do the following
Action -> Click
Field Type -> text
Field Text -> Send via Card 2
#3
Select -> App -> Go Home
Keep default settings.
That's it.
You can also add event Day along with Time so that the schedule stuff goes on specific day and time

Need to ask about tasker

Hi, I want to do something with tasker and I can't how to do
I want to disable call vibration + disable pin lock security when I go out from my wifi range
And enable it when I am in range
Please help

Please help

This approach requires your device to be rooted to work around the Android limitations for secure lock screens.
Start with a profile that is triggered by the presence of your wifi network.
Create a new profile:
State -> Net -> WiFi Connected
Configure to your specific WiFi network. If you do this while actually connected to the network it will be easier.
Now create an enter task to enable vibration and secure lock screen (sets the secure lock screen to engage 1 minute after screen off = 3600 seconds).
Audio -> Vibrate Mode [
Mode:Vibrate
]
Code -> Run Shell [
Command:Settings put secure lock_screen_lock_after_timeout 3600
Timeout (Seconds):0
Use Root: on
Store Output In:
Store Errors In:%LockScreenError
Store Result In:
Continue Task After Error: on
]
Create an exit task to disable vibration and secure lock screen (sets the secure lock screen to engage 1 day after screen off = 86400 seconds).
Audio -> Vibrate Mode [
Mode: off
]
Code -> Run Shell [
Command:settings put secure lock_screen_lock_after_timeout 86400
Timeout (Seconds):30
Use Root: on
Store Output In:
Store Errors In:%UnLockScreenError
Store Result In:
Continue Task After Error: on
]
To better understand using root shells to modify secure settings see Replace Secure Settings with Shell Commands

Just can't get some simple tasks to work

Ok. I've re-installed Tasker after a year or so and set up a few simple profiles, but I can't get a couple of very simple tasks to work.
1. Keep screen on for specific apps:
Profile > Launch App > iPlayer, Youtube or Ghostery Browser
Task > Display Timeout > 23 Hrs
Exit Task > Display Timeout > 30 secs.
Launch the apps, but screen off after 30 secs. (I've tried deleting the Exit Task, makes no difference).
2. GPS on
Profile > Launch App > Maps
Task > Location > GPS > On
Exit Task > Location > GPS > Off
GPS stays off.
Other tasks seem ok (Auto rotate for certain apps, Silent at night, etc).
I've got an LG G3 (D855), running 5.0 and rooted. I've given Tasker admin privileges and installed Autotools.
Any ideas?

Better if you post the DESCRIPTION of the profile instead of describing it.
Long press on the profile name -> 3-dot menu -> export -> export "DESCRIPTION" to clipboard (not XML). Then paste here.
Beginner mode must be off and the profile must be named. If you didn't name it, there will be a default name created from the first context. You need to actually name the profile by long pressing and tapping the "A" at the top.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Thanks ktmom,
Ok here it is:
Profile: Screen On (20)
Application: BBC iPlayer or Ghostery
Enter: Screen On (21)
A1: Display Timeout [ Secs:0 Mins:0 Hours:23 ]

You edited the context and added "or Ghostery", right? If, not, how did you create the OR between two apps?
Add a flash alert action at the *end* of the Screen On task. Set the text to "Screen on %DTOUT". The flash alert should return "Screen on 82800" for a 23 hour timeout.
What device, ROM?
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Thanks ktmom,
No, that's just from export. Just did it again to check, it says 'Application: BBC iPlayer or Ghostery'
I'll try that. Not sure how to add a flash alert action. Is it a Variable?
From my OP: "I've got an LG G3 (D855), running 5.0 and rooted. I've given Tasker admin privileges and installed Autotools. "
Thanks for your help.

Munky99 said:
Thanks ktmom,
No, that's just from export. Just did it again to check, it says 'Application: BBC iPlayer or Ghostery'
I'll try that. Not sure how to add a flash alert action. Is it a Variable?
From my OP: "I've got an LG G3 (D855), running 5.0 and rooted. I've given Tasker admin privileges and installed Autotools. "
Thanks for your help.
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Click to collapse
A flash action is contained under the alerts. Your can filter in the action list, just type in "flash".
Sorry, I overlooked the device in the OP. I think the LG phones have a problem setting the display time out. Try setting it to a standard number your device recognizes, such as 10 or 15 minutes.
If that works, but not the 23 hours your trying, then there may be a way to get around the problem using a script (requires root).
Edit:
Here is an example of using code -> Run Shell with root to shame the display timeout at a system level. This may or may not work on your OS.
Profile: Screen On
Application: <whatever app(s) should trigger profile>
Enter: Screen On
A1: Run Shell [
Command:settings get system screen_off_timeout
Timeout (Seconds): 0
Use Root: On
Store Output In:%DisplayTimeOut
Store Errors In:
Store Result In:
]
A2: Run Shell [
Command:settings put system screen_off_timeout 6000000
Timeout (Seconds): 0
Use Root: On
Store Output In:%DisplayTimeOut2
Store Errors In:
Store Result In:
]
A3: Flash [
Text:Screen on %DTOUT
DisplayTimeOut %DisplayTimeOut
Long: On
]
Exit: Screen Off
A1: Run Shell [
Command:settings put system screen_off_timeout %DisplayTimeOut
Timeout (Seconds): 0
Use Root: On
Store Output In:%DisplayTimeOut2
Store Errors In:
Store Result In:
]
A2: Flash [
Text:Screen on %DTOUT
DisplayTimeOut %DisplayTimeOut
Long: On
]
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Increments in Tasker volume control

I'm on a Galaxy S10 Plus and have over 15 increments in all my sound controls. Tasker only has 15 increments. I've got Tasker set to lower my notification volume at work but Tasker's "1" step isn't low enough. My phone sound has the ability to go many steps lower than Tasker's "1".
How can I address this in Tasker to get the volume lower than 1 or to increase the sound increments in Tasker? Thank you!

A couple of thoughts...
If you use a variable entry set to 0, does it go lower? If you're not yet aware, tap the double arrow button to get to an input field.
Or, see if a custom settings action will give you fine grained control.

I'm not sure how to use a variable entry to adjust the sound. Can you please elaborate?
Thank you!
ktmom said:
A couple of thoughts...
If you use a variable entry set to 0, does it go lower? If you're not yet aware, tap the double arrow button to get to an input field.
Or, see if a custom settings action will give you fine grained control.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

https://www.pocketables.com/2012/08/beginners-guide-to-tasker-part-2-variables.html

I'm sorry but I don't see how to use a variable to set sound increments. Can you help? Thank you!
ktmom said:
https://www.pocketables.com/2012/08/beginners-guide-to-tasker-part-2-variables.html
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

I don't know what more to tell you. Create a variable, set it to a value (see the link that was posted) and use that variable in the action you are using to control the notification volume (tapping the crossed arrows to get the input field as mentioned in my first reply)

Hi - I tried using a variable with settings of 0.5 and it just takes the volume down to zero. I also tried setting the media volume to the lowest setting and recording what value that was in a variable and it just came up as "1" despite a value of 1 not getting me the lowest volume level. Has anyone figured out how to do this?

I have not figured out how to do this through Tasker.

It's clanky, but what I've done for the moment is to use Tasker to set Media Volume to zero, then in a simple loop I mimic pressing the "Volume Up" hardware button as many times as requested.
Task: Adjust Volume
A1: Media Volume [
Level: 0 ]
A2: Variable Set [
Name: %max
To: 17
Max Rounding Digits: 3
Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]
A3: Variable Set [
Name: %num
To: 1
Max Rounding Digits: 3
Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]
<loop>
A4: If [ %num < %max | %num = %max ]
A5: Button [
Button: Volume Up ]
A6: Variable Set [
Name: %num
To: %num + 1
Do Maths: On
Max Rounding Digits: 3
Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]
A7: Goto [
Type: Action Label
Label: loop ]
A8: End If
A9: Flash [
Text: %VOLM
Continue Task Immediately: On
Dismiss On Click: On ]
I have the final Flash in there just to check out what Tasker is calling my required volume; I'll clearly be taking it out when I put the task into implementation, if I decide it works at least well enough for me.
For the record, I have a Samsung Galaxy S10e, on which I have used Sound Assistant to increase my volume rocker steps to 30.