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[GUIDE][Difficulty: intermediate] alternative way to set alarm based on calendar

The task is triggered by a time based profile, every day at 11:59 pm.
Set alarm (94)
A1: For [ Variable:%count Items:2:12 ] If [ %tit1 !~ shift ]
#a for-loop with up to 11 cycles, if condition to stop the loop, once an entry with the proper title is found. Since the "Test App" action checks at a certain point in time for an entry, we have to check every hour seperatly. 1st cycle will check for an calendar event starting at 2am, 2nd cycle will check at 3am and so forth. Last cycle will check for events starting at 2pm, because i expect myself to be woken up till then without an alarm clock.
A2: Variable Set [ Name:%times To:3600*%count+%TIMES Do Mathsn Appendff ]
#the "Test App" action requires the time of when to check for an entry so we prepare a variable by adding one hour in seconds, multiplied by the cycle item (2-12), to the device time. If ur calendar event duration (start to end) is less than one hour u have to double the amount of cycle items (2-24) and multiply it by 1800 in order to check for an entry every 30min.
A3: Test App [ Type:Calendar Start (Seconds) Data:%times Store Result In:%res Continue Task After Errorn ]
#if an calendar event is found at %times, it will write its starting time into the array %res
A4: Test App [ Type:Calendar Title Data:%times Store Result In:%tit ]
#this will write the events title into %tit.
A5: End For
#self expaining
A6: Stop [ With Errorff Task: ] If [ %tit1 !~ shift ]
#the task stops, if all cycles are executed and no calendar entry is found.
A7: Variable Convert [ Name:%res1 Function:Seconds to Medium Date Time Store Result In:%dat ]
#if u dont have overlapping calendar events, %res (still an array!) will have only one entry. So we convert it into a human readable format and save it inside %dat
A8: Variable Split [ Name:%dat Splitter: Delete Baseff ]
#we want only the time and not the whole date so we split at every whitespace
A9: Variable Split [ Name:%dat4 Splitter:: Delete Baseff ]
#now we have %dat4 in the format hh:mm but the "Set Alarm" action requires the providing of hours and minutes seperatly. So we split once again, this time ofc at the ":"
A10: Variable Subtract [ Name:%dat41 Value:2 Wrap Around:0 ]
#reducing the hours by 2 to have the alarm ring 2 hours before the event starts.
A11: Set Alarm [ Hours:%dat41 Minutes:%dat42 Message: Confirmff ]
#self explaining
Iam going make this guide more fancy (screen shots and more explaination) later.
Best regards, Chillmann

Screen-shot would have been useful. Thanks anyway.

this is actually UNBELIEVABLE!
I have the mostly same thing and was thinking of writing a similar guide like this the other day.
My version has some minor difference, of course, but the concept is mostly the same.
Again, unbelievable!

Don't forget to share the task/project xml.

I finaly found what I was looking for.
I am a starter with Tasker.
I entered the task but I get a error
Variable convert: %res1: no value.
What did I do wrong?

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

tasker - profile based on time - new user

Hi all,
I'm using phone profile plus on Android, and it's work very well, but it's quite limited... So I want to test Tasker
BUT I don't know why my profile didn't start automatically...
I want to have, for example very easy, one task for the day and on exit another one for one profile.
Profile: Day (16)
Restore: no Enforce: no
Time: From 07:30 Till 22:20
Enter: Journée (17)
Abort Existing Task
A1: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:5 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A3: Bluetooth [ Setn ]
Exit: Nuit (6)
A1: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:5 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A2: Do Not Disturb [ Mode:None Continue Task After Errorn ]
A3: [X] Auto Brightness [ Setff ]
Task: Background Image: Layoutopup Task Buttons Timeout (Seconds):10 Show Over Keyguardn ]
Ok i dont understand maybe how it is work but it didn't start on time..
I tried to change manually the time to see what happen, but even if i apply the changing, nothing happen, and sometimes it's work... But most of the time nothing!!
I have allowed all permission for Tasker, same for power save etc...
What's wrong?
Please help me!
Edit : hum I have understand why it didn't work...
But please what can I do to have profile
1) profile 7 to 22 : task A
2) profile 22 to 7 : task B
When I tried that, I have two profile activated...
Thanks

For example now... Profile not activated, why??...

In preferences, monitor tab, make sure "use reliable alarms" is set to always.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

ktmom said:
In preferences, monitor tab, make sure "use reliable alarms" is set to always.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
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Thanks I will try !

Tasker Mute call if unknown Contact

Is there a way to use Tasker to mute calls from numbers not in my contacts?

Yes, I end the call if not in my contacts which effectively just seems them to voice mail. The end call action is not guaranteed to work on all devices, but you could exchange it for a action to lower the audio -> ringer volume.
In the following profile, I use a variable %CallBusy, to prevent disconnecting if I'm actively in a call. This variable is set in a separate profile that just looks if the phone is off hook.
Profile: Unknown Caller Disconnect
Event: Phone Ringing [ Caller:!C:ANY ]
State: Variable Value [ %CallBusy !~ true ]
Enter: End Call
A1: End Call
A2: Variable Set [
Name:%CallerEnded
To:%CNUM
Recurse Variables: Off
Do Maths: Off
Append: Off
Max Rounding Digits:0 ]
A3: Flash [
Text:Just blocked caller %CallerEnded
Long: On ]

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.
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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
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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.