I already use a number of home-based triggers through Tasker, but I would love to be able to automatically tell my motion sensor it is ME walking up to the door. RING has a setting for pausing the motion sensor built into the app. It allows for various increments of silence up to 2 hours. I would love it if an event was tied into my HOME and set it to pause notifications for 15 minutes.
Look forward to some help if anyone has a suggestion.
Curt Z
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Hi I am new to Tasker and I found it is really really a helpful app and indeed is only limited by your imagination. I did setup some basic profiles like controlling brightness, rotation and volumes. I am really getting some creative ideas to speed up my tasks. However I'm stuck in setting up a profile correctly so I'm requesting for a help.
Requirement- launching of an app (like YouTube, gallery, mx player ) should change the brightness. But at day the brightness should be higher and at night it should be lower. I'm able to change the brightness when app is launched, but can't figure out how to deal with day night time thing. Please help.
Thanks.
Twilight Plugin from Google Play
I use tasker to turn bluetooth on when i am not at home or at work. I set up a profile to turn the brightness up when bluetooth is on and the twilight plugin says it is daylight.
I also have another profile which turns the brightness down when i am connected to the car bluetooth and the twilight plugin says it is dark outside.
I would like to use my fire tablet as an alarm panel. Found a few apps that display full screen web pages, that works good. In the development options I turned on "stay awake" so the panel could always be on. After like 30 seconds of no using the screen just barley dims. I would like to dim the screen as much as possible after no use. Anyway to override this amount? I found several apps that can set the dim amount, but just by a schedule, not by inactivity. Or even a web browser app that can control the dimming when not in use?
Thanks a bunch!
Coods said:
I would like to use my fire tablet as an alarm panel. Found a few apps that display full screen web pages, that works good. In the development options I turned on "stay awake" so the panel could always be on. After like 30 seconds of no using the screen just barley dims. I would like to dim the screen as much as possible after no use. Anyway to override this amount? I found several apps that can set the dim amount, but just by a schedule, not by inactivity. Or even a web browser app that can control the dimming when not in use?
Thanks a bunch!
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Unfortunately, not possible on this device. Minimum brightness level set in kernel (possibly a panel/controller limitation) with no known workarounds (via Xposed). To date this is the only device I own that exhibits this behavior.
Thanks for that info Davey. Maybe I'll see if I can create my own app with a webview that will dim when not touched for a period of time. Since it seems an app can control the dim level. Thanks again.
Coods said:
Thanks for that info Davey. Maybe I'll see if I can create my own app with a webview that will dim when not touched for a period of time. Since it seems an app can control the dim level. Thanks again.
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Ah - so you are not experiencing any dimming vs dissatisfied with the minimum level. Couple thoughts:
- might be able to use an automation tool like Macrodroid or Edge (w/Xposed) to dim the screen on a particular action like last user action or time of day; Tasker (a fan favorite) can do this as well but is overkill for your needs IMO
- blue light filters can emulate deeper dimming levels but you won't realize the associated battery saving as backlight level remains untouched; the again you device is likely plugged in when used as an alarm clock
Unfortunately Macrodroid and Tasker can not listen for inactivity/idle events. Sounds like an Android limitation: http://macrodroid.freeforums.org/inactivity-period-as-trigger-t86.html
Not sure what Edge (w/Xposed) is, not finding that?
Thanks Davey!
Coods said:
Unfortunately Macrodroid and Tasker can not listen for inactivity/idle events. Sounds like an Android limitation: http://macrodroid.freeforums.org/inactivity-period-as-trigger-t86.html
Not sure what Edge (w/Xposed) is, not finding that?
Thanks Davey!
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Edge is a module for Xposed Framework. You might also consider a different trigger sequence than inactivity/idle, eg: touch, activity atart or time of day. Might need to get a little creative with the thinking
I have a samsung galaxy tab 2 p3100. It is running android 4.4 (jelly bean). It is rooted, and, I have tasker installed on it.
I am also using this tab as a web cam. So I have IP Webcam software installed (free version). While this web cam is streaming (through the front-facing cam) I can put the app in the background, and, bring up another app in the foreground. Therefore I have opened the browser, and, displayed a web page that shows a clock.
Additionally there is a mqtt client (with tasker integration) also running.
IP Webcam while its running doesn't allow the device to lock itself, and, keeps the display always-on. Even though I have disabled auto-brightness, the screen dims a bit; the display is still on, but, I cannot read the clock from far off.
Now while the phone is in this dimmed-state, I have setup a tasker mqtt event. It listens to a specific topic. On receiving a mqtt message of that topic, it runs a task that sets brightness to a value (a number between 0 - 255), which I specify via the mqtt message payload. So if I specify a high brightness value (like 200), the screen brightens up; but for a short duration. I am guessing the duration that it remains bright has something to do with the display timeout setting.
So what do we do to keep the display from dimming?
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I have a samsung galaxy tab 2 p3100. It is running android 4.4 (jelly bean). It is rooted, and, I have tasker installed on it.
I am also using this tab as a web cam. So I have IP Webcam software installed (free version). While this web cam is streaming (through the front-facing cam) I can put the app in the background, and, bring up another app in the foreground. Therefore I have opened the browser, and, displayed a web page that shows a clock.
Additionally there is a mqtt client (with tasker integration) also running.
IP Webcam while its running doesn't allow the device to lock itself, and, keeps the display always-on. Even though I have disabled auto-brightness, the screen dims a bit; the display is still on, but, I cannot read the clock from far off.
Now while the phone is in this dimmed-state, I have setup a tasker mqtt event. It listens to a specific topic. On receiving a mqtt message of that topic, it runs a task that sets brightness to a value (a number between 0 - 255), which I specify via the mqtt message payload. So if I specify a high brightness value (like 200), the screen brightens up; but for a short duration. I am guessing the duration that it remains bright has something to do with the display timeout setting.
So what do we do to keep the display from dimming?
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Change screen timeout through Tasker, or use Auto input add-on to virtually click the screen every X seconds to keep the screen on full brightness? Grtz, Eric
Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-N960F met Tapatalk
Hello,
Everytime I open android auto it mutes my ringtones and notifications. This did not happen on my previous phone (s7 edge); does anybody know how to disable this? It does not even show me my onscreen notifications when driving
I had the same problem, just using Android Auto on the phone, not a car screen. I'm afraid it's due to how Xiaomi have made Do Not Disturb, in that it isn't the same as standard Android. There used to be a toggle in the settings of Android Auto, but they removed that and you can't add exceptions in DND on Xiaomi. So, the only work around I have found is to download an app called Macrodroid. (Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arlosoft.macrodroid
And create a macro that detects when Android Auto is launched then disable DND, with a 5 second delay to allow Android Auto to start and switch DND mode.
If you want I can share screens of the macro.
If anyone has a better way let me know!
BUYER BEWARE: I don't know how Samsung handles burn-in. I created an overlay for WatchMaker that effectively turns off every pixel for a minute or two each hour (similar to what pixel shift does).
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I lucked into exploiting a bug/glitch that somehow tricks or circumvents the 15% OPR limitation in dim mode. What I end-up with is considerably brighter, and much more useable/readable.
Using WatchMaker and Tasker, create a task to run every 5 minutes throughout the day. Every 5 minutes (or 10 or whatever you choose, just needs to be higher than watch's screen off time), re-send the currently selected WatchMaker face to your Watch. It might take a cycle or two to sync, but you'll end-up with the default WatchMaker brightness (which doesn't appear to be adjustable) in dim mode.
My blue/orange/red watchfaces (some with @ 45% OPR) are now readable in dim mode. Uses maybe 1-1.5% extra battery per hour (I have brightness set to 4 out of 10). App "I'm Alive" works great to keep your watch always on (and active), but is a huge battery drain in the 8-10% per hour range in my tests. The Tasker trick above actually allows your watch to go into inactive/dim mode.
NOT A GUARANTEE AGAINST BURN-IN!!!
Here are the overlays I use in WatchMaker. It would be the top/last two layers in your design. The first I set the X coordinate to {dm}, which shifts the image 1 pixel right each minute. The second I set the Y coordinate to {dm}, which shifts the image 1 pixel down each minute.
I really can't see these pixels, although they may show on large white parts of your watch.
The images are a 630x630 square at 364 DPI (for the 1.4" 45mm Galaxy Watch 3). Each row has 1 pure black pixel every 60 pixels, and I alternated so to maximize the space between pixels to not be noticeable. The second image is rotated 180 degrees so you can use both in order to "turn-off" each pixel for 2 minutes each hour.
One more layer of protection would be to lengthen your minute hand all the way to the edge and it will then, presumably, change the color of every pixel for a few minutes each hour as it rotates around.
The images are below (they're just mostly transparent!). Hover around with the cursor to find GWBurnIn1.png and GWBurnIn2.png
More tips:
Rotate watch faces at least every 12 hours to reduce chance of burn-in (GW3 WatchMaker max is 3 hours, FYI, but you need to control this from Tasker, anyway, to select different watches at different times on different days)
Alternate between light/colored faces and dark/black faces. Even better, use paint.net (free download for PC) to create the inverted color version of the watch face. But in most cases the inverted face will probably be ugly as sin.
A couple battery drain tips: Don't use WatchMaker default rotation commands for the minute-hand, use {dm}*6. In dim mode, the hand only moves every minute, anyway, but the default rotation is adjusted for seconds which could cause it to constantly engage cpu to calculate. Similarly, you might not want to use the continuous second-hand {drss} rotation.
Note: The second-hand does not disappear in dim mode even if set to bright only. Use the below code for the Opacity of the second-hand. This makes the second hand invisible after the watch has been active for 15 seconds. It will come back, for 15 seconds (or whatever you choose) when you interact with your watch again.
{c_elapsed} >=15 and 0 or 100
How do you write the Tasker task to change the watch face in watchmaker? Thanks for help
Would like to know this as well...
mib1800 said:
How do you write the Tasker task to change the watch face in watchmaker? Thanks for help
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There are two steps. First, a "sub-task" to set a Tasker variable. In the below scenario, I'm rotating 25 watchfaces for the week. It's iterating the variable +1 every 8 hours, until 25 then back to 0.
with trigger/event set from 12AM every 8 hours
1) Variable set.....Name "%WMwatch" and To 0 and "If %WMwatch" eq 25
2) Variable add....Name "%WMwatch" and Value 1 and Wrap Around 0
Second step. Set the watchface. You need to use the Tasker Watchmaker plugin. The action is "WM Change Watch". The trigger event you want to set to every 5 minutes (or 2, or 10 minutes or whatever). I use 5 minutes and the battery drain is completely negligible.
1) Configuration: choose your watchface...and use the IF function %WMwatch EQ 1 (and then a different watchface for 2, and 3, and so on).
That's it. Kind of hard to explain, but if you guys are familiar with Tasker you should be able to figure it out. This hack is still working for me, and I love it.