What have YOU done with Tasker?

[County Mike]

The wifi/cell task shouldn't use your gps at all. It should work much better for you if you are trying to enable wifi.

If you aren't then anywhere you see %loc in a profile, replace it with %locn and it will use your cell tower as the location instead of stale gps coordinates.

I was talking about the lost phone task that sends an SMS with your location in google maps. Using $LOCN doesn't work for me on that one. I get a message from google maps asking if I meant "Lane".

Does anyone have a "lost phone" task that returns the most accurate location, even if indoors? I'm guessing the GPS location is most accurate if your phone is outdoors but cell phone towers to narrow it down if indoors.

If you are using $LOCN that is wrong its %LOCN.

Other than that I will have to test it this evening after soccer and I will get back to you.

Sorry, I did use %. Just messed up in this thread. %LOCN doesn't seem to work for me but I'll keep working on it. Thanks.

 

[NebulaOcton]

I was talking about the lost phone task that sends an SMS with your location in google maps. Using $LOCN doesn't work for me on that one. I get a message from google maps asking if I meant "Lane".

Does anyone have a "lost phone" task that returns the most accurate location, even if indoors? I'm guessing the GPS location is most accurate if your phone is outdoors but cell phone towers to narrow it down if indoors.

If you are using $LOCN that is wrong its %LOCN.

Other than that I will have to test it this evening after soccer and I will get back to you.

Sorry, I did use %. Just messed up in this thread. %LOCN doesn't seem to work for me but I'll keep working on it. Thanks.

If you could, can you post your profile so that I can look through it or point ot where you found it if you didn't make it yourself.

 

[County Mike]

Locatephone - Tasker Wiki

Changing %LOC to %LOCN does not seem to work for me.

I did add a step to turn wifi on as well before checking location.

 

[NebulaOcton]

Locatephone - Tasker Wiki

Changing %LOC to %LOCN does not seem to work for me.

I did add a step to turn wifi on as well before checking location.

Try this.
How to Roll Your Own "Find My iPhone" for Android

I know the location grabbing part works for getting a gps location when outdoors.

add a variable %GPSAGE = %LOCTMS-%TIMES - do Maths
add an if to the send sms part to say If %GPSAGE < 60
Then add a stop if %GPSAGE < 60
then another sms part just like the one before but use %LOCN and remove the if statement.

You can also do things like remove the sound it makes and the flashing of the message if you want.

Let me know how that works for you.

 

[mikespe]

I remember seeing somewhere that when I plug the headphones in I can have a list of all music apps be shown to choose from but I can't seem to find the directions. I can figure how to have Tasker open one app...but I just want a list of apps to open....

Thanks

 

[mikespe]

I remember seeing somewhere that when I plug the headphones in I can have a list of all music apps be shown to choose from but I can't seem to find the directions. I can figure how to have Tasker open one app...but I just want a list of apps to open....

Thanks

Found it on the Wiki....sorry!

 

[phydeaux98038]

I know this should be trivial

But I cannot seem to get it to work reliably. So I'm looking for suggestions on what I may try.

I would like the GPS to only come on when I put the phone into the car dock. When using the State > Docked > Car Dock, this does not seem to happen. I've also tried to only turn the GPS on when the Car Home application comes up, but I get a dialog box asking if I want to complete the task with either Car Home or Tasker.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to approach this from another angle, maybe?

 

[NebulaOcton]

But I cannot seem to get it to work reliably. So I'm looking for suggestions on what I may try.

I would like the GPS to only come on when I put the phone into the car dock. When using the State > Docked > Car Dock, this does not seem to happen. I've also tried to only turn the GPS on when the Car Home application comes up, but I get a dialog box asking if I want to complete the task with either Car Home or Tasker.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to approach this from another angle, maybe?

You have to choose Tasker when that comes up if you want the Tasker profiles related to the dock to work. If you just add Open App - Car Dock to the tasker profile then you will have the same functionality you normally have plus everything you told Tasker to do.

 

[MarkDF]

I'm attempting to use the tasker profile as listed on
http://tasker.wikidot.com/auto-respond-to-phone-call.

How do I get the camera button to be recognized by Tasker when the the
phone is ringing?

I wrote this so hopefully I can fix your issue. I couldn't test it because I don't have an sms plan but I can test the camera button part. I'll let you know what I find and if I can fix it.

Thanks, that would be awesome if you can get this to work, the functionality would be very useful.

 

[phydeaux98038]

You have to choose Tasker when that comes up if you want the Tasker profiles related to the dock to work. If you just add Open App - Car Dock to the tasker profile then you will have the same functionality you normally have plus everything you told Tasker to do.

Tried it that way, and got a 50% success rate. First time I put the phone on the car dock, the dialog came up, as always, followed by Car Home coming up, but no GPS. Removed the phone, put it back on, and this time, GPS came on.

Here's the configuration I'm using:

Profile: Car
Context: State > Docked > Car Dock
Task: GPS On
+ Wait 10 seconds
+ Load App > Car Home
Exit Task: GPS Off
+ Kill App > Car Home

 

[NebulaOcton]

You have to choose Tasker when that comes up if you want the Tasker profiles related to the dock to work. If you just add Open App - Car Dock to the tasker profile then you will have the same functionality you normally have plus everything you told Tasker to do.

Tried it that way, and got a 50% success rate. First time I put the phone on the car dock, the dialog came up, as always, followed by Car Home coming up, but no GPS. Removed the phone, put it back on, and this time, GPS came on.

Here's the configuration I'm using:

Profile: Car
Context: State > Docked > Car Dock
Task: GPS On
+ Wait 10 seconds
+ Load App > Car Home
Exit Task: GPS Off
+ Kill App > Car Home

I don't what the issue is but since the last update I have been experiencing some issues with my dock profile not completing everything that it is supposed to. I don't think there is anything wrong with your profiles.

 

[jamesdean]

I just purchased tasker and already have a bunch of helpful profiles. I sure do wish i could get it to communicate with the Wifi Tether app instead of just launching it

I wrote this article after spending a long time trying to figure it out myself: Wifi Tether - Tasker Wiki

Hope it's what you're looking for!

Thanks for these instructons. I followed them exactly but when task executes I see the popup dialog box with !/data/data/android.tether/tether start 1 but no action on the wireless tether app.

Any suggestions?

 

[bodean]

Any suggestions on setting profile up that puts phone in silent (alarms on) from 1030pm-300am?

 

[NebulaOcton]

I'm attempting to use the tasker profile as listed on
http://tasker.wikidot.com/auto-respond-to-phone-call.

How do I get the camera button to be recognized by Tasker when the the
phone is ringing?

I wrote this so hopefully I can fix your issue. I couldn't test it because I don't have an sms plan but I can test the camera button part. I'll let you know what I find and if I can fix it.

Thanks, that would be awesome if you can get this to work, the functionality would be very useful.

Ok the camera button did not work for me either, but I was able to get it to work with a long press of search. If you need help setting that small change up let me know and I will write it up.

 

[NebulaOcton]

Any suggestions on setting profile up that puts phone in silent (alarms on) from 1030pm-300am?

you need 2 profiles, one from 2230-2359 and another from 000 to 300
both tasks enable slient mode and the exit task on the 000-300 should be to disable slient. Need more help? just ask