What have YOU done with Tasker?

[Ty07allstar]

I finished my profile for Wifi on. It seems to work well

Profile one:
Context: Cell Near and Airplane mode off
Task: Set %Home to 1
Exit: Set %Home to 0

Profile two:
Context: Variable %Home set to 1 and Wifi Near with toggle wifi checked.
Task: Turn Wifi On

Profile two
Context: Wifi Disconnected and %Home=0

Please go into a little more detail how to set this up. I'm having trouble finding some of these options.


Thanks.

I put it on the wiki
Low Battery usage Wifi Enabling profile using Wifi Near - Tasker Wiki

If I don't autofill my router info in will it connect to any remembered router or will it mess it all up? I ask because I have a couple different router that I connect to.

 

[MadDingo]

I put it on the wiki
Low Battery usage Wifi Enabling profile using Wifi Near - Tasker Wiki

Great!
If I want to add a time/day profile, does it matter where i place it?


Thanks.

I think the easiest way is in the Home profile
Press "+" - Tasker - Stop - If %TIM < (start time in the format 18.45) - Done
"+" - Tasker - Stop - If %TIM > (end time in the same format) - Done - Done
Then long click on the Variable Set %home line and drag it to the bottom of the list.

If the time is going to go past midnight you will need to do something else. Let me know if you need more help.

Thanks for the help. I will try this out.

 

[anonydroid]

Hi guys,

My idea for a profile:
1. Check for the first calendar event at 4am. (to determine the first calendar event of the day)
2. Read when the first calendar event is going to start
3. Set a alarm 1 hour before the first event of the day is going to start.

That way when you make sure your calendar is up to date, you won't have to set your alarm anymore. Can someone with programming skills help me out?

 

[takeshi]

That way when you make sure your calendar is up to date, you won't have to set your alarm anymore.

You put your work hours on your calendar?

 

[mks1001]

Hey, when I got my eyes up for this program, I had no other option than to actually buy it. Which I have done.

I have made a number of profiles that makes my life easier, but now I'm trying to make one designed to help me locate my cell phone (Desire), if it used with different SIM card than what I usually use. (Aka stolen)

I already have a program detecting this, TheftAlarm (found only on XDA developers). When booting the phone, it checks whether the SIM card in your phone is the same as it has previously registered, or not. If it is not, the program sends a message to a predefined phone number with the "IMSI" number and IMEI.

The message looks like this, and is sent to pre-defined number +47xxxxxxxx (this is the Norwegian phone format)
"
Phone is turned on.
Unknown SIM inserted.
IMSI: this is 20 digits
IMEI: this is 15 digits
"
After the Imsi and Imei, are actual numbers ofcourse.

What I then want, is that when booting the phone, it should check whether this message has been sent to the given number, possibly after some time, and if it happened, it should activate a profile that sends coordinates (the locate phone profile), etc.

I've tried to achieve this on my own, but struggled a bit, to say the least.

Could someone help me create such a profile?

 

[jtennis]

this stuff is pretty far over my head, but i'm having fun trying! i have been using app alarm lite to open pandora in the morning to wake me. and i've tried a few times to get tasker to do this for me. the best i have done so far is get it to launch pandora after the alarm goes off and i hit the dismiss button on the alarm. but i would really like to get it to kill the alarm on its own and to launch pandora. can anyone help? thanks!

 

[Davidd31415]

Hi,

Just starting out with Tasker. I've read about people having Tasker read the number of SMS unread when one is received. Is the same possible with # calls and # unread emails?

 

[NebulaOcton]

this stuff is pretty far over my head, but i'm having fun trying! i have been using app alarm lite to open pandora in the morning to wake me. and i've tried a few times to get tasker to do this for me. the best i have done so far is get it to launch pandora after the alarm goes off and i hit the dismiss button on the alarm. but i would really like to get it to kill the alarm on its own and to launch pandora. can anyone help? thanks!

I've been developing this myself and am almost completely happy with it and it will come with a snooze option. I should have it done later this week and will post instructions for it then. One caveat though, I don't know how to make it open a certain channel in pandora, it just plays the last one you used.

(I bought the full version of appalarm but have been unhappy with it since I switched to froyo and it can't close Pandora anymore.)

 

[Comprox]

That way when you make sure your calendar is up to date, you won't have to set your alarm anymore.

You put your work hours on your calendar?

I'm actually wanting to do something similar. I work 2 jobs, and even within those 2 jobs, I start at different hours so I put all my work hours in my calendar. As you can imagine, this has led to me setting the alarm wrong once or twice. Is there any way to get tasker to look at the calendar for some specific text (I label my work like "Job - 8am") and set the alarm for the day accordingly?

 

[NebulaOcton]

Hi,

Just starting out with Tasker. I've read about people having Tasker read the number of SMS unread when one is received. Is the same possible with # calls and # unread emails?

Are you trying to read the phone number of the person calling outloud? Or the number of calls that you missed?

You can have tasker read to you the name and number of the person calling if you wish.

 

[NebulaOcton]

That way when you make sure your calendar is up to date, you won't have to set your alarm anymore.

You put your work hours on your calendar?

I'm actually wanting to do something similar. I work 2 jobs, and even within those 2 jobs, I start at different hours so I put all my work hours in my calendar. As you can imagine, this has led to me setting the alarm wrong once or twice. Is there any way to get tasker to look at the calendar for some specific text (I label my work like "Job - 8am") and set the alarm for the day accordingly?

One thing you can do is set calendar notifications. I don't know if there is a way to do this with Tasker or not but am researching it.

 

[NebulaOcton]

Please go into a little more detail how to set this up. I'm having trouble finding some of these options.


Thanks.

I put it on the wiki
Low Battery usage Wifi Enabling profile using Wifi Near - Tasker Wiki

If I don't autofill my router info in will it connect to any remembered router or will it mess it all up? I ask because I have a couple different router that I connect to.

Send me an email I think I have an idea for this but I don't have multiple routers to test it on. peterobri at gmail dot com

 

[NebulaOcton]

You put your work hours on your calendar?

I'm actually wanting to do something similar. I work 2 jobs, and even within those 2 jobs, I start at different hours so I put all my work hours in my calendar. As you can imagine, this has led to me setting the alarm wrong once or twice. Is there any way to get tasker to look at the calendar for some specific text (I label my work like "Job - 8am") and set the alarm for the day accordingly?

One thing you can do is set calendar notifications. I don't know if there is a way to do this with Tasker or not but am researching it.

As of right now there is no way to do this if the calendar entry is not set for an hour before the actual real life event starts. Calendar variables are on the to do list for Pent (the guy who wrote Tasker). Once they are made it will be much easier to accomplish this. For now I would suggest setting calendar reminders for an hour before the event occurs or putting the event an hour early into google calendar and then setting up a Tasker profile. If you choose that latter, let me know and I can help.

 

[drwits]

I feel your pain. I came from the Blackberry Storm to the Droid. I like the Storm when it worked. In eighteen months I had to replace the phone three times for hardware issues. The fourth time was when I switched over to Android. I also miss the mute button. I came up with two remedies.

Context: State: Incoming Call (leave number blank by hitting Done)
Task: Display: Keyguard: Off.
Display: Display Timeout: 1 hour (or more depending on your calls)

Now the mute button will always be displayed on the screen since the display won't time out and the keyguard will not come on.

Here's another one....

Context: State: Orientation: Face Down.
Task: Audio: Mic Mute.

Now when you are talking on the phone, all you have to do is place the phone face down and it will mute the microphone. Bring it face up again and it will unmute.

I recommend testing both of these out before relying on them for an important call.

i've done something similar to your second scenario... but i have a profile dedicated to all silences...

profile: silence
context: orientation face down
tasks: audio - silent mode on, audio - mic mute on
exit task: just switch those back

so whenever i turn my phone face down it silences all ringers, notifications, vibrating plus mutes the mic when in call (in or out)

I LOVE TASKER

 

[droid.user]

Awesome

This is a very useful utility and has once again allowed Android to consume my time haha.
So far i have

Read text message aloud when in car dock

When headphones inserted, start slacker, read aloud my battery power and remind me to plug in

Alarm set to play some loud wake up music along with a nice greeting that im awesome

The popular find my phone received text, which i edited to include date, time, battery, location, and memory

Automate a birthday greeting to a few of my family members at 8am on their birthday

Text for if i misplace my phone to crank the media volume and start playing music

Gesture when flipped will load Work email

Reads battery power when initially plugged in

Turn off volume when camera is launched

Few other widgits with stats for phone

One thing i am tryng to currently figure out is if i can remotly via text change my lockscreen to a PIN or password. Any help would be appreciated