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I am in no way attempting to take credit for this program or any profiles created unless my name is annotated next to a published link. Support these guys buy buying their app(s) as this is a tremendous backend for amazing automation for today and the future.
In an effort to help everyone new to Tasker (and its associated apps like AutoRemote) and its capabilities, I'm starting this thread to list profiles that people are actively using on their gear.
What is Tasker?
Tasker is an application for Android which performs tasks (sets of actions) based on contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined profiles or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.
What are some of the things I can use these apps for?
While the number of uses for Tasker is limitless and only supressed by your imagination, here is a list of published tasker profiles that people have created for common yet out of the box thinking type usage: Tasker Profiles
Here are only some of the things you could do with Tasker, it's real power is the flexibility to combine contexts and tasks however you wish.
passcode-lock sensitive applications (e.g. for child safety)
change phone settings by
*application: long screen timeout in a book reader
*time: screen brightness lower in the evening
*location: ringer volume high at the office, turn off ke yguard at home
wake up with a random song from your music collection
Text-to-speech; read out loud: incoming SMS/ phone number, WiFi/Bluetooth status, when it's time for an appointment, when the battery is low etc etc (Android OS 1.6+ only)
launch a music application when your music SD card is inserted, otherwise a file browser
start the day with a particular application showing
change all your home icons and wallpaper every day, or in particular locations
turn the phone upside down to return to the home screen, tilt 90 degrees to the left and back to toggle speakerphone during a call
create a Home widget to
*toggle bluetooth/wifi on/off
*launch wireless settings dialog
*show a menu of tasks to choose
*send an emergency SMS with your GPS location
remap camera etc buttons to other applications, or show a menu of applications and/or actions
zip/unzip application data on the fly when an application is launched/exits
pause music playback while in a particular application, restart on exit
change the Home icon for any application
take a time-lapse photo series (possibly 'secretly')
make a regular backup of a file on the SD card
track your phone location via SMS in case of theft
extend the use of the media button on your headset: take a picture from a distance or go to the previous media track with a long press
record call times and destinations to the SD card
show a popup when an SMS arrives from a particular phone number
setup a birthday SMS to be sent months before it happens so you don't forget
record battery levels over time to a file on SD card
make automatic recordings of what you say during phone calls to SD card
during the night, turn on airplane mode to conserve battery/reduce radiation, but turn it off every 15 minutes to check for SMS/voicemail.
setup a vacation SMS message, with different messages for different callers
launch a music application when headphones are connected
Guides and Tutorials
OG Development Site for Tasker for Android
Massive amounts of reading material/guides
Tasker 101 Help Videos - by hollywoodfrodo
Tasker Profiles
Auto Bluetooth/Internet Tether - App Trigger Method - Props to Brendo.
Auto Bluetooth/Internet Tether - Screen On/Off Trigger Method - Props to st-tps
Please drop a note in the thread or PM me with your Profiles and/or Instructions. This is thread is to bring the power of Tasker on the gear to a single place. Thread links/files/guides all welcome.
Cool
Here's one that I've been using:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542050
Recommended companion app: AutoRemote
What we really need is an update to Tasker to allow exporting...
I would love if this thread develops and thank you for starting it...i am trying to learn how to use tasker to get weather widgets to read weather from stock weather widget.....F0mey said you needed SQlite which i have and tasker...but im lost from there
It has taken me the better part of 4 days to get mine set up for voice automation. I know I've barely gotten started but I can now give a voice command to the gear and have it open Pandora and adjust the volumes on the phone. Then pause Pandora and readjust the volumes with another command. Think entering and exiting your car. Having this core structure in place, I think as I move to a full home automation plan, I will be able to integrate it with no problems.
Tasker, Autovoice, and Autoremote are all required. When I get a little more time, I'll try to decompress all that I learned over these 4 days to create a tutorial.
In the meantime, if you search autovoice and autoremote on Youtube, you can find some great assistance. Armando Ferreira has some great tutorials that really helped me get to where I am (and pushing me to where I want to be).
I was hoping someone can help me with what I am trying to do. First I'll explain what I want and then show screen shots of what I tried. So basically I want my weather info to be set for UCCW widgets and it seems u need tasked and sqlite to do so. And no null has sqlite support so I'll show u what I've done.
I know I'm probably totally off but can anyone tell me if I'm close or help
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Great Job with the OP #WellDone
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Bump. Added new Bluetooth Tether method by st-tps. Please give them props and if you have any profiles you have created please share!
Do you have to have an internet connection on you Gear for the initial Autoremote setup? I really just need the bluetooth connection to my phone to send intents to trigger tasks from there. I've googled the crap out of it but keep coming to the same posts. Thanks!
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Do you have to have an internet connection on you Gear for the initial Autoremote setup? I really just need the bluetooth connection to my phone to send intents to trigger tasks from there. I've googled the crap out of it but keep coming to the same posts. Thanks!
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I'm having the same issue. I can get autoremote to send through BT occasionally but not consistently.
I also have trouble with autovoice offline. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
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Bump. Added new Bluetooth Tether method by st-tps. Please give them props and if you have any profiles you have created please share!
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Nice thread, everyone can take use of the Tasker Power!
And thanks for the prop
When I double tap Nova, I use AutoVoice recognised Profile on Gear to send an autoremote message to the phone.
When the phone receives the message, it opens my Spotify playlist, and starts playing,
It also uses intents within Spotify to open the now playing window
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Has anyone found way to activate/deactivate motions with tasker at a given time?
I use to turn it of when i go to bed to save battery
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Has anyone found way to activate/deactivate motions with tasker at a given time?
I use to turn it of when i go to bed to save battery
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just what motions are you doing in bed exactly???
do you "sleep" with your watch on?
Wahaha! Nothing like that mate, but do you lay completely still when you are trying to sleep? Yes i sleep with the watch on because i am using the alarm feature and it works really good
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vibrate & ring
Any of you tasker experts know how trigger an event on an incoming call on the Gear? I've tried Event --> phone ringing, and it doesn't seem to trigger anything when I get a call. I was thinking maybe there's a way to do it with Intent Received, but I don't know which intent...
I wanted the gear to play a ringtone once when I receive a call (while the gear is set to 'vibrate')
I can achieve this using Autoremote. The phone ringing event works on the phone itself, so I had Autoremote send a message "RING" to the gear, and the gear received this and played the ringtone... it wasn't really a good way to do it, and wasted battery because I had to keep the Autoremote bluetooth listener on.
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Any of you tasker experts know how trigger an event on an incoming call on the Gear? I've tried Event --> phone ringing, and it doesn't seem to trigger anything when I get a call. I was thinking maybe there's a way to do it with Intent Received, but I don't know which intent...
I wanted the gear to play a ringtone once when I receive a call (while the gear is set to 'vibrate')
I can achieve this using Autoremote. The phone ringing event works on the phone itself, so I had Autoremote send a message "RING" to the gear, and the gear received this and played the ringtone... it wasn't really a good way to do it, and wasted battery because I had to keep the Autoremote bluetooth listener on.
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I think you may need to find out what 'app' opens. Perhaps dialer? And trigger on app start as it doesn't seem to use the actually phone capabilities of android
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Brendo said:
I think you may need to find out what 'app' opens. Perhaps dialer? And trigger on app start as it doesn't seem to use the actually phone capabilities of android
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I just tried dailer ... didn't work Doesn't see like there are any other apps on the tasker app list that would apply to incoming calls. That's why i was thinking there was an intent or something else that could be monitored.
I have a simple one for alerting of Whatsapp messages (got sick of watch constantly alerting on group messages). Essentially it triggers a notification, then hides it
Make sure Tasker is set to send notificiations in Gear Manager
Make sure Tasker is turned on in Accessibility services
Profile: Notification Whatsapp
Cooldown: 5mins
Event: Notification
Owner Application: WhatsApp
Task: WhatsApp Message
1. Notify
Title: Whatsapp
Text: Message Received
Icon: [Can be anything, as doesn't show up anywhere]
2. Wait
Seconds: 5
3. Notify Cancel
Title: whatsApp
Further ideas:
- Display content (requires sqlite3)
- Only display for group chats
- Repeat alerts
UPDATE:
I use WhatsTasker for more detail. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.zhdev.whatstasker
Edited original post as now getting. a collection of tasker tasks i have going on and easier to keep them in the first post but Will help below if anybody wants to copy them, also if anyone else wants to post there's that will be good.
1st) have tasker to toggle settings like wifi brightness etc when i get to work. Reverts settings back when i get home. Produces notifications on watch.
2nd) sends a message to my wife when i say launch task 1 that tells her im on my way home.
3) launches a autowear location menu on the watch. In the menu i can select wether i want high accuracy or low and wether i want location services on or off atall.
4) when i charge my phone between 2230hrs and 0625hrs the watch is switched to screen off, Bluetooth off and phone set to vibrate. When its unplugged or after 0625 the watch is switched to always on and phone is muted.
5) mobile data on and off options via autowear.
6) detects when i have lost connection to the watch and immediately turns on GPS to record the location. Then notifies me on my phone with a map view. I fix generators for a living so i need to take my watch of sometimes or when i have a shower in the gym etc. If for whatever reason i forget it which is unlikely i will know where i last had it.
7) every morning when i take my phone and watch off charge it selects a different watchface every morning at random from a predefined list. (needs watchmaker to be installed)
8) using autowear so that when i start My Tracks on the watch it automatically starts my gps task for me.
9) little on screen widget that i can control my Xbox/sky/tv changing channels, volume, play and pause, go to Fifa 15, record that, turn everything off. Accomplished using autowear, autoremote, autoinput, and a redundant tablet.
I have only just began with tasker so my methods won't be the most efficient but they work. If anyone has better ways as i mainly using auto input then please get in touch.
Could you describe which apps you used to pull this off? Thank you
Yeah sure, was a app called Tasker that i used on my phone to create it all and then a tasker plugin called tasker wear i think.
I have since been tinkering with it.
The updated version now has the following options;
1) text the wife I'm on my way home.
2) turns Wi-Fi of, auto brightness on, sync off
3) opposite of 2.
4) closes and returns back to watch face.
With option 2 and 3 i get a notification of what has beebeen switched on/ off.
With option 1 it also activates option 3 ready for when i get home.
Also if i forget to do the above especially switch evereverything on it detects when I'm nearly home and does it for me.
check AutoWear tasker plugin from joao, you can do anything with it in combination with the other Autoapps.
TheKaser said:
check AutoWear tasker plugin from joao, you can do anything with it in combination with the other Autoapps.
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I'll have a look at that thanks, currently going to create a task that switches between gps and battery saving location as you can't turn location of anymore. So will have it switch to gps when needed and back to battery saving when not.
Also going to see if i can switch to cinema mode when charging and lost connection to the phone together and to revert back to previous or new watch face when undocked and regains connection to phone.
Hi Phil, would love to hear how you get on with that.
Hi rusty,
Just finished putting something together.
I have tasker detect when it's on charge and if between 2230 and 0625, and if so it switches the watch screen to off, and Bluetooth of.
using a profile manger, that detects that the watch it's no longer connected so switches notifications on the phone back on.
The opposite is when it's unplugged it switches Bluetooth back on, turns the watch screen to always on and the profile manager then detects the watch so turns the phone to mute but watch still vibrates.
I can now sleep at night with no lights keeping me awake and the only thing i have to do is plug my phone in.
Just to note it was pretty simple to set up with tasker and autoinput.
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check AutoWear tasker plugin from joao, you can do anything with it in combination with the other Autoapps.
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Hi kaser, as you recommended autowear do you have any experience with it as i can't get my head round it and there isn't much on YouTube or Google to help out.
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Hi kaser, as you recommended autowear do you have any experience with it as i can't get my head round it and there isn't much on YouTube or Google to help out.
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Hi, sorry for the late reply, I was on holidays.
I do have some experience. You need to download AutoApps from Google Play and suscribe to the alpha testing. Then you can download AutoWear. For this you also need to joing the Google+ community where the developer is always nice and reactive when posting bugs, questions or guidelines. Posting at the community is the best thing you can do since AutoWear is still in Alpha and it improves every day and it is not too straight forward to understand, especially how it communicates with AutoVoice and how commands and parameters are passed to Tasker.
By the way, I have a similar profile telling my girlfriend when I get to work, when I leave work and when I have parked at home coming from work, which automatically trigger depending on my location and connection to my car's bluetooth or work's WiFi. You don't really need your watch for that
Cheers for replying.
I have already downloaded it and played around but can't get my head around the processes of the app.
I followed the guide for the voice screen but cant get new screens up or start tasks etc.
I'm usually pretty good at working things out but cant with autowear.
what is it you are trying to do? Do you have the latest version of tasker?
Yeah i have the updated tasker but just can't work out how to get from the voice screen too say a "4 menu screen" that has tasks i have set up. Not sure what i want to accomplish with tasker next but i know if i can understand autowear it would help.
Have you done anything with autowear.
I have done the above tasks in the first post with autoinput and taskerwear but that is just a series of notifications that you can select to start tasks.
my main use for autowear is to send whatsapp messages from scratch (whatsapp currently only allows to reply to messages).
To achieve this I open an AutoWear Voice Screen by shaking the watch, and say "write to XXXX and say YYYY". This triggers an AutoVoice profile configured to react to "write to (?<contact>.+) and say (?<message>.+) (using Regex)
Inside the task, I do an WhatsTasker plugin contact search of the variable %contact generated by the regex command. Once found, I text the %message to this contact using whatstasker.
The best thing to do is to read the variable descriptions in the task. For example, you create your profile of AutoVoice Recognized. Inside it, before clicking configuration, you can see all the local variables available and their description. These are usable within the task. Same thing goes for any autowear task, they are usable after calling the task.
For example, in my task, after finding the contact, I have an AutoWear confirmation screen with the picture of my contact, his name, and the message I dictated. And following that I have an if %awmessage (the output of this confirmation screen) is different to cancel, then send the message.
Hope this helps a bit!
Thanks buddy, i will try and emulate this tonight once the kids are in bed. Whatsapp was one of the things i have been thinking of doing, just wish there was a way of bringing up a previous conversation without waiting for a new message.
well maybe you can capture the messages as they come, along with the sender's name, and save them in a temp file. Then create an autowear screen that shows the content of this file when requested... but I guess it would be very difficult to make it work perfectly (especially with groups).
I have managed to create and implement a mobile data on and off switch into my interactive notification popup for system settings using tasker, taskerwear and autoinput.
I now have the ability to switch wifi, mobile data, gps on and off as well as high and low accuracy location services and change profiles from one notifaction popping up.
left watch behind
Currently trying to set up a tasker profile that when i get disconnected from my watch will activate gps, stores the location, notifies you where it is and shows you on the map.
Hopefully will never need it but you never know. I.e you leave it in the gym, at work etc
Is there already something that does something similar as struggling at the moment but will crack on if there isn't.
Any one let me know about how to get nearby cell tower ID in a single variable.
Otherwise, how to convert the context in profile as a task.
Ty
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I'm sorrlearning tasker but i think if you create a new profile that activates when you connect to that cell tower. Then create a task and set variable %whateveryouwantto to %CellID.
You should only have to do that profile once and the variable will be set and you can use it in your profiles and tasks.
On another note i got my lost watch profile working like a charm.
Great Job
TheKaser said:
my main use for autowear is to send whatsapp messages from scratch (whatsapp currently only allows to reply to messages).
To achieve this I open an AutoWear Voice Screen by shaking the watch, and say "write to XXXX and say YYYY". This triggers an AutoVoice profile configured to react to "write to (?<contact>.+) and say (?<message>.+) (using Regex)
Inside the task, I do an WhatsTasker plugin contact search of the variable %contact generated by the regex command. Once found, I text the %message to this contact using whatstasker.
The best thing to do is to read the variable descriptions in the task. For example, you create your profile of AutoVoice Recognized. Inside it, before clicking configuration, you can see all the local variables available and their description. These are usable within the task. Same thing goes for any autowear task, they are usable after calling the task.
For example, in my task, after finding the contact, I have an AutoWear confirmation screen with the picture of my contact, his name, and the message I dictated. And following that I have an if %awmessage (the output of this confirmation screen) is different to cancel, then send the message.
Hope this helps a bit!
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It sounds great :good:
May you please share your work with screenshots or something else so I can make it work for me?
Thanks in advance and best regards
Hi everone,
I am quite new to tasker and I am trying to manage the following:
1. If my phone connects to my car via bluetooth it should enable wifi tethering
2. Once I leave the car and it disconnects it should disable tethering and enable the ordinary wifi again
However, when I leave my car it automatically disables tethering but it does not additionally enable wifi.
I have one profile (bluetooth connection to car) and one task (enable tethering).
I tried adding a decond task enabling wifi, but that will then disable tehtering and stop the first task.
I tried adding a second profile that enables wifi when not connected to car. But that then aaaalways enables wifi even if i manually disabled it.
Tasker automatically disables tethering once the original profile condition no longer applies. But how do I also make it reinstate the wifi status?
Sorry if this sounds too nooby
Could you possibly export the profile and task as an XML file and share it?
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Of course
I think you've done a full backup of your Tasker. I can't import that without overwriting all my data
Instead, export the individual profiles. Tap and hold the profile to highlight, tap the menu button, export.
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Sorry about that
Here's the profile itself.
I tried adding a wifi on/off switch but that will not reinstate the wifi state it had before the profile jumped into action.
Of course I would like tasker to reinstate the wifi status my phone had before the car connected. So off if off and on if on.
Try this
I uploaded the XML file here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8uRFO5wFVFKNW42cnpNOHl0UlU/view?usp=drivesdk
Tasker will set a variable %WIFI_STATUS recording the current wifi status, then enable the hotspot. I then added an exit task which should trigger once your phone disconnects from the car's bluetooth, disconnecting the hotspot and re-enabling wifi if %WIFI_STATUS was set to "on".
Thank you
Would you mind uploading it here instead of google drive? I cannot access it there.
Sure thing. Attached.
Thank you very much!
I have not figured out how you created the second step (red arrow) yet, but I will soon, hopefully
It seems to be working except that sometimes the second step of turning off the tethering and re-enabling the wifi won't work. Maybe this was just a thing of how fast I turned the radio back off. I will try a real life test over the next few days
Most welcome!
Here's how to create an exit task (red arrow)
https://youtu.be/xbB3INzOz1M
You can find more details here.
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/05/beginners-guide-to-tasker-part-1-5-tasker-basics-new-ui.html
Pocketables' 8 part guide is excellent if you have the time you go through it.
As for wifi not always re-enabling, I would suggest increasing the wait time on the exit task from 3 seconds to 5 or even 10. Android automatically disables wifi when you activate tethering, so I figured you would need give the task enough time to be sure the tethering is fully deactivated before enabling wifi again.
I have found that the problem is in fact tether not disabling.
I am trying to write a If task. At the end of which I added a For loop checking whether or not the variables are identical and if not a Goto will jump back to the beginning... or so I hope ^^
OK, now that I have this running, the final remaining problem is the fact that tasker has to run in foreground. otherwise it will not work reliably. is there a way around this?
this issue seems to mainly concern the exit task. the starting task almosz always works but the exit task does not.
is it possible to enable tasker foreground on the starting task and then disable it in the exit task?
edit: i thought of a temporary workaround
since for some reason the starting tasks always work, I end those with opening tasker^^
since I'm driving I do not really care if it is open or not. and the exit task then closes it so it is gone by the time I use my phone again
but if you or anybody knows of a cleaner solution, I would be happy to give it a try
Why don't you want Tasker to run in the foreground? I've never had any noticeable battery drain from leaving that setting on (Preferences > Run in foreground). I've been using Tasker for years and never had to open the app in order to guarantee tasks would run.
If you're on marshmallow you may need to disable Doze for Tasker though, because that can occasionally interfere with the app too.
Are you sure the exit task isn't running at all? I'm assuming you've tested this by having Tasker do something menial at the start of the exit task such as display a notification.
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The problem with running in foreground is that you always have the two lines
"Tasker
1 profile active"
in the dropdown menu. Like a permanent norification. Unless one can disable this dropdown notification and basically just keep the icon, I do not really like it running in foreground.
P.S.: Yes, I made sure the exit task was not running.
Hey everybody and thanks for taking the time to read this.
I'll explain my problem as clearly as possible:
I created a task with the purpose of opening an app (vpn hosts) and clicking on a button (with autoinput) when I launch twitch or YouTube.
What I was trying to accomplish is that whenever I open said apps my vpn app opens up, activates and then I would like the phone to go back to the original app.
Here comes the problem: I get stuck in a loop cause whenever I go back from vpn hosts to twitch (using autoinput) tasker detects that a profile condition is met and runs again the task.
Is there a way I can force tasker to run those tasks one time and one only?
Hopefully I explained my problem clearly enough to be understood, thanks in advance
Set a cool down period in the profile settings. This will prevent the profile from running again for your specified period.
Less clean, you could also set a variable in the enter task and disable the profile if the variable is set.
Else, use a condition of "not" the vpn app as a trigger condition in the profile.
Hi
I would love a profile in tasker if possible
I have a vw car with inbuilt Bluetooth
I would like my profile if possible, let me explain
When turning off the ignition on my car tasker would know that the inbuilt Bluetooth is now not working, then tasker will turn off a app on my mobile device.
Hope you can help and understand my question
Alistair
Create a Profile to track the specific BT connection. When it disconnects, set a kill app Action in the End Task (more than likely, you'll need root to kill the app). If it is too stop some app activity, you could use AutoInput to create a macro Action in the End Task.
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I have a similar profile. Used autonotification to press the switch off button for Waze
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