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[Question] Change brightness when app is launced and revert back when closed

Basicly what i want is, when i launch an app;
- if brightness is manual(say 50) i want brightness to get max(100) and when i close the app , brightness goes back to 50.
-if brightness is auto, i want auto brightness disabled, set Brightness to 100,and when I close the app, i want brightness back to auto.
I am only able to: disable auto brightness >set it 100>set back to auto when i close. But if it is manual to be start with, i end up having auto brightness when I close the app.
I hope i explained the problem clear enough. Thanks in advance

Profile: Brightness (220)
Application: Chrome
Enter: Anon (227)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Bright To:%BRIGHT Do Mathsff Appendff ]
A2: Display Brightness [ Level:255 Disable Safeguardff Ignore Current Levelff Immediate Effectff ]
Exit: Anon (228)
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:%Bright Disable Safeguardff Ignore Current Levelff Immediate Effectff ]
A2: Variable Clear [ Name:%Bright Pattern Matchingff ]
Hope this helps.
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What does the numbers mean in the parenthesis(as in "Brightness (220)). Sorry but the noob question

Lorrid13 said:
What does the numbers mean in the parenthesis(as in "Brightness (220)). Sorry but the noob question
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I have the same question. Would somebody please clarify?

Lorrid13 said:
What does the numbers mean in the parenthesis(as in "Brightness (220)). Sorry but the noob question
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You can ignore that. It's just the format of the XML file they copy/pasted.

MishaalRahman said:
You can ignore that. It's just the format of the XML file they copy/pasted.
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Thanks a bunch, mate!

ashfaaa said:
Profile: Brightness (220)
Application: Chrome
Enter: Anon (227)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Bright To:%BRIGHT Do Mathsff Appendff ]
A2: Display Brightness [ Level:255 Disable Safeguardff Ignore Current Levelff Immediate Effectff ]
Exit: Anon (228)
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:%Bright Disable Safeguardff Ignore Current Levelff Immediate Effectff ]
A2: Variable Clear [ Name:%Bright Pattern Matchingff ]
Hope this helps.
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It works as it should when auto brightness is off. When auto brightness is on, it sets brightness to 100, but only a visual change in notification shade, brightness doesn't change on screen. I think the problem is, it doesn't disable auto brightness before it changes brightness value if auto brightness is on.

I just fixed it by adding "auto brightness: off" action in first task, between "variable set" and "display brightness: 255".working perfectly now. Thank you very much.

background learning of cell towers areas

Hi,
It doesn't seems to practical to have the phone on an inside the task to learn a new cell tower are. I found this post
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tasker/UXVXY3gYwqw
in which there is a profile and a task that record recent Cells ID to a predefined variable.
The profile and task are:
Profile: Record Cells (181)
Event: Variable Set [ Variable:%CELLID Value:* ]
Enter: RecordCells (182)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%CELL_List To:%CELLID
Do Mathsff Appendn ] If [ %CELL_List !~ *%CELLID* ]
This is launched from a button with the following actions:
Action 1: Perform Task : Record Cells (this is to capture the current cell as the above only kicks in when the cell changes):
RecordCells (182)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%CELL_List To:%CELLID
Do Mathsff Appendn ] If [ %CELL_List !~ *%CELLID* ]
Action 2: Set Profile Status (Record Cells) On
Its necessary to create a button on a scene. (I've attached the files)
It works but i would like to know the following:
1.- To stop the cell tower recording, for when i leave the area. There its been said that clearing the %CELLgatherswitch variable should work, but when i see the variable values, it is always empty, so nothing to clear...
2.- To learn different areas: copying the task and change the variable name do the trick i think, but for now i have no way to stop it.
3.- Is really a difference between executing the RecordCell task manually and trough an scene?
Any help will be appreciated!

Why is Tasker storing the outcome of a calculation in scientific notation?

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, sorry if it isn't.
I'm trying to calculate a time in the future, by adding some value to %TIMES. I'm adding 24 hours max. For some reason, the variable I'm storing the result in, ends up like this: 1.515....E9. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue, but for some reason, not a single application in Tasker seems to be able to handle this scientific notation, so I'm stuck with a useless number. Is there a way I can prevent Tasker from writing this number in this notation, or is there a way to convert it to a regular number?
Tim

The %TIMES variable is the current time in seconds since January 1, 1970. A very big number.
Typically time values are manipulated by doing a "variable convert" action.
Could you post your task DESCRIPTION here? Long press the task to select it -> 3-dot menu -> export -> description to clipboard.
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

I'm currently doing this through Variable Set. It's been a long time since I used tasker (set once and forget, right), so it's probably something dumb I'm doing wrong.
Here's the description (and thank you for providing instructions on how to do it):
Update Times (25)
A1: AutoAlarm [ Configuration:No configuration needed Timeout (Seconds):5 ]
A2: Variable Set [ Name:%minsBefore To:20 Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsff Appendff ]
A3: Variable Set [ Name:%preAlarmTime To:%TIMES+%seconds-(%minsBefore*60) Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsn Appendff ]
A4: Variable Set [ Name:%dismissNotification_preAlarmTime To:%TIMES+%seconds-(120*60) Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsn Appendff ]
A5: Variable Convert [ Name:%preAlarmTime Function:Seconds to Date Time Store Result In:%readable_preAlarmTime ]
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Some notes:
I know A2 is weird and useless currently, it's a placeholder for something I'm gonna add later.
Action A4 is also irrelevant at the moment, again a placeholder for later.
Action A5 throws an error, due to %minsBefore being stored in scientific notation (I'm assuming, see error below)
15.17.29/Variables doreplresult: |%preAlarmTime| -> |1.51539179987E9|
15.17.29/E Variable Convert: %preAlarmTime -> %preAlarmTime
15.17.29/E Variable Convert: %readable_preAlarmTime -> %readable_preAlarmTime
15.17.29/E Variable Convert: %preAlarmTime: failed.
15.17.29/E result: stop task (error)
15.17.29/Variables doreplresult: |%preAlarmTime| -> |1.51539179987E9|
15.17.29/Variables doreplresult: |%readable_preAlarmTime| -> |08:15|
15.17.29/E Error: 1
15.17.29/MacroEdit action finished exeID 1 action no 4 code 596 status: Err next 4
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In A3, try using the round function on the seconds variable;
%TIMES+round(%seconds)-(%minsBefore*60)
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

ktmom said:
In A3, try using the round function on the seconds variable;
%TIMES+round(%seconds)-(%minsBefore*60)
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
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I'm almost beyond belief.. That fixed it instantly, brilliant catch, thank you!
A tiny addition, for anyone else who might face this later:
Using round on just %seconds gave me an incorrect time later on, in conversions (one minute too early). I fixed this by using round on (%seconds-(%minsBefore*60)), which fixed it.

The other, probably better, solution would be to go into the AutoAlarm settings and set the decimal point setting to 0. The round() was my quick way to get to that [emoji56]
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

ktmom said:
The other, probably better, solution would be to go into the AutoAlarm settings and set the decimal point setting to 0. The round() was my quick way to get to that [emoji56]
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
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That indeed also fixes it. I did notice the extra numbers, making for milliseconds, I should've realized that such a setting would be available in this kind of app, lol. Thanks again!

With Tasker brightness not adjustable

Hi,
I have an issue with Tasker on my Oreo car stereo.
With Tasker I am not able to adjust the screen brightness:
Code:
Profile: Night (7)
State: Twilight [ Configuration:From CIVIL DUSK to CIVIL DAWN at Device location. ]
Enter: Dimmer ON (5)
Stay Awake
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:0 Disable Safeguard:eek:n Ignore Current Level:eek:ff Immediate Effect:eek:ff ]
A2: Set Tasker Icon [ Icon:mw_action_bookmark_border ]
Exit: Dimmer OFF (6)
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:255 Disable Safeguard:eek:n Ignore Current Level:eek:ff Immediate Effect:eek:ff ]
A2: Set Tasker Icon [ Icon:mw_action_bookmark ]
Even the manual executing of the task it doesn´t change the brightness.
Any hints how to get this working?
I used exactly this task on earlier radio with Android 7 and it is still working fine on my Phone with Android 7.
I think the behavior is related to Andoid 8, could that be possible?

Is adaptive brightness turned off?
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

ktmom said:
Is adaptive brightness turned off?
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Yes it is turned off in the Android settings, to not use the head lights.
Even if I switch off adaptive brightness in the task it doesn´t do anything.
The unit itself has no light sensor, so I need something which dims the screen brightness independant of the head lights.

rigattoni said:
Hi,
I have an issue with Tasker on my Oreo car stereo.
With Tasker I am not able to adjust the screen brightness:
Code:
Profile: Night (7)
State: Twilight [ Configuration:From CIVIL DUSK to CIVIL DAWN at Device location. ]
Enter: Dimmer ON (5)
Stay Awake
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:0 Disable Safeguard:eek:n Ignore Current Level:eek:ff Immediate Effect:eek:ff ]
A2: Set Tasker Icon [ Icon:mw_action_bookmark_border ]
Exit: Dimmer OFF (6)
A1: Display Brightness [ Level:255 Disable Safeguard:eek:n Ignore Current Level:eek:ff Immediate Effect:eek:ff ]
A2: Set Tasker Icon [ Icon:mw_action_bookmark ]
Even the manual executing of the task it doesn´t change the brightness.
Any hints how to get this working?
I used exactly this task on earlier radio with Android 7 and it is still working fine on my Phone with Android 7.
I think the behavior is related to Andoid 8, could that be possible?
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Hi Mate.
I have exactly the same problem. Did you get a solution?
I have a Xtrons Android 8 unit and brightness does not work , exactly like you explained.
Did you get a solution?

Hi,
there will be no solution until they use the Adroid_API as it should be.
Tasker uses the API, but the dev of our version seems to use different folder structures.
If I have a look at the traces I find the following entry:
Code:
05-07 13:45:54.415 292 292 E Lights Hal: write_int failed to open /sys/class/backlight/rk28_bl/brightness
/sys/class/backlight/rk28_bl/brightness would be the correct folder used by the API.
The reason for this issue is, that the folder rk28_bl does not exist. The file "brightness" is stored in folder:
/sys/class/backlight/backlight/brightness
I´m thinking about a method to get a workaround for this issue, but I don´t have the needed time to do it in the moment.

Hello,
I have the same issue. Did you find how to fix this?

alek_05 said:
Hello,
I have the same issue. Did you find how to fix this?
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I got a new firmware for my Pumpkin and use FCC car launcher, which is able to do it.

rigattoni said:
Hi,
there will be no solution until they use the Adroid_API as it should be.
Tasker uses the API, but the dev of our version seems to use different folder structures.
If I have a look at the traces I find the following entry:
/sys/class/backlight/rk28_bl/brightness would be the correct folder used by the API.
The reason for this issue is, that the folder rk28_bl does not exist. The file "brightness" is stored in folder:
/sys/class/backlight/backlight/brightness
I´m thinking about a method to get a workaround for this issue, but I don´t have the needed time to do it in the moment.
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Try this, run shell with tasker :
settings put system screen_brightness=216
value : 0 to 216

philippe734 said:
Try this, run shell with tasker :
settings put system screen_brightness=216
value : 0 to 216
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No that can not work... and it does not work with OREO head units... at least not with mine.

Tasker profile help for a newbie

Hi guys! I am new to tasker and trying to setup some profiles that needs some help finishing, plz help me with this:
1. I am creating to launch an app from clicking a widget and i achieved it, but the problem is when i click that widget it launches default application for that widget, hence both apps are launched. I want to replace the default action with my custom action.(I tried killing the default app without and with root permission, without root permission the problem was same, with root permission the app and its widget wasn't functioning further, plz suggest any help.
2. So i read many articles on web to locate phone but none of them use google maps live location feature, please suggest any way of using the live location feature or a valid replacement.
3. Next i am creating a profile to answer call when i take proximity sensor close to me, but the error in this is calls might be answered in pocket mode, plz suggest any way to detect pocket mode. Also i am trying to extend its functionality by activating loud speaker when i distance the phone and deactivate loud speaker when i bring the phone closer to my ear, plz help me with this.
Thanks for your patience in reading all these and thanks for your help.

Any Luck With Those Profiles? I'm Particularly Interested In The Proximity Answer, Facing The Problems Mentioned In Your Post

Proximity problem
Maybe add Display on as condition? Or phone unlocked? Would make a good pocket detection.
So, basically you need two profiles:
One would be this:
Profile: Proximity Status (70)
State: Proximity Sensor
Enter: Proximity on (71)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Proximity To:1 Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsff Appendff ]
Exit: Proximity off (72)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Proximity To:0 Recurse Variablesff Do Mathsff Appendff ]
And one would be with an Incoming call, a turned on display and an unlocked phone as condition. As task you would chose take call if %Proximity ~ 1. That should do the trick. You can obviously change the name of %Proximity in the tasks to whatever you like, I just quickly created an example to show you what I meant. What system version are you on? Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo, Pie? Taking the call might be tricky, though, if you're not on Oreo or above.