Has anyone had luck using Tasker app on their Gtablet?
For one, I know almost nothing about programming, and I can't seem to find any decent tutorials on how to program tasks in the app.
I'm trying to make it so that my Gtablet will automatically shutdown if the screen times out for more than, for example, 30 minutes. Does anyone have some guidance or at least a place to start to teach myself how to use this program? I've gone to their wiki and other sites that show profiles and defines what each thing is, but they aren't put together all that well and they skip a lot of beginning steps that are obviously what I need to grasp how to make the most of this program.
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johnsonjf said:
Has anyone had luck using Tasker app on their Gtablet?
For one, I know almost nothing about programming, and I can't seem to find any decent tutorials on how to program tasks in the app.
I'm trying to make it so that my Gtablet will automatically shutdown if the screen times out for more than, for example, 30 minutes. Does anyone have some guidance or at least a place to start to teach myself how to use this program? I've gone to their wiki and other sites that show profiles and defines what each thing is, but they aren't put together all that well and they skip a lot of beginning steps that are obviously what I need to grasp how to make the most of this program.
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I use Tasker extensively on my phone, not so much on my G-Tab, but that is due to my needs, not the app. Due to limitations in Android, Tasker cannot address all situations - you can't use it as universally as you can use similar programs in Windows, for example.
For help, in addition to the home page (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/) and the Wiki (http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index), there is the user guide (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide_summary.html) and the Google Groups link (http://groups.google.com/group/tasker?pli=1).
Simplest method for what you want to do: if you set your GTab WiFi to turn off when the screen is off and you have the QuickBoot app (which I have and like), you could set a Tasker Profile something like the following:
Context - WiFi disconnected
Tasker - wait 30 minutes
Plugin - quickboot Power off, if %WIFI ~ off
(As an alternative to step 3, if you have an app that powers off the tab, you could simply run that app as step 3).
This profile will run every time WiFi disconnects. It will wait 30 minutes and, if WiFi is still disconnected, it will power off the G-Tab.
Not perfect, of course - a better way to do it would be to do 30 1 minute waits, checking each time to see if WiFi is still off, and stopping the script if WiFi is on. This requires a variable to measure time and to turn off the GTab once 30 minutes has passed:
Context: WiFi disconnected
Tasker: Variable Set %WIFIOFF = 0
Tasker: wait 1 minute
Tasker: Stop if %WIFI ~ on
Tasker: Variable Add %WIFIOFF + 1
Tasker: Goto Action 8 if %WIFIOFF = 30
Tasker: Goto Action 3
Plugin: quickboot Power off
I could test this tonight, when I get home, if you want.
PM me if you need further help.
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.
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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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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
I'm new to Tasker and trying to set up a profile that will start my radar detector app when connected to my car's BT, and one that will exit the app when BT disconnects.
I've been successful in creating the profiles that are triggered by the BT connect and disconnect. I've also created the task to start my app on the BT connect. However, I am stuck on how to exit the app when BT disconnects.
The app in question, Esccort Live, can be exited by pressing BACK and clicking on the "OK" prompt. To accomplish this, I trying to use AutoInput to do the following:
1. Press BACK
2. Look for "OK"
3. Click on "OK"
Seems simple, but I can't figure out how to do these three steps.
Also, when using a profile that is triggered by a BT connect or disconnect, is there a way to clear this state once the profile's tasks have been executed?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Jack
Some thoughts for you. You may need to put a pause (e.g. wait 1 sec) since auto input can respond faster than the screen can update. Or flash an alert between the autoinput commands. If the Escort Live app isn't in the foreground when you are trying to make an action on it, try opening recent apps using AutoInput, then reselect the app.
BTW, I'm not sure what you are asking to reset on the BT connect/disconnect. Maybe what you want is to use a variable that is set/unset on connect/disconnect and then that variable triggers your task.
Morning all, somewhat novice to tasker but I enjoy playing around with it and learning more about the operation. I have a bit if an issue I have been trying to sort out for some weeks but haven't been able to get it done. perhaps someone can assist.
I am running on a Nexus 6, recently rooted and ROM'ed.
On my device I am running my standard carrier number and a GV number (Through the app). While ago, I made a task to read SMS its programmed something like this:
T- AutoNotification Intercept
event behavior: True
Notification type: only created notifications
persistency type: both
Notification apps: Messages, voice ....
T-edit: Say
Text: %anapp %antitle %antext
Respect audio focus: off
The task used to pause any podcast/music playing before reading the message. A recent update has caused the function to not work anymore.
Did some reading and tried to use the media control buttons to pause podcast/music, read message, resume podcast/music by setting CMD to pause, toggle pause, and stop, before and after the task.. That worked reasonably well but had issues when I was not playing anything and the task triggered.
Tried to use "If %pmusic is set then media control pause, else Say: text: %anapp %antitle %antext"
Obviously it did not work because I am still confused.
I know tasker can set variables but I am not fully sure how they work together to get things done.
Thanks in advance for anyone who can contribute,