What have YOU done with Tasker?

[NebulaOcton]

I have read through this thread, and if there is a tasker context for this, I've missed it.

I want to silence the phone ringer by either tapping the phone or hitting screen lock button. Can I do that?

When it has already started ringing or all the time? I have created a pair of widgets that allow me to mute all sounds from the phone and then return them to their previous levels. I can post that if thats what you are looking for.

If you want to do it when the phone is already ringing, then it will have to be with the camera button or a long press of search. (aside from the obvious drag to mute on the screen)

 

[NebulaOcton]

Ok I think it's working correctly. When I'm home my connected, home, a wifi on profiles are on. When I'm away from my cell near sites I have no active profiles, and when I'm near my cell sites but not connected to my Wifi I have the home profile on and it looks like it scans but shuts off if it's not in range of my router (haven't really tesed this too much yet). This seems right, correct me If something isn't.

Now it just seems that my Wifi off profile is never active, please let me know if this is how it should be.

It should only activate when you lose your connection to your router for 30 seconds and then should disable itself again.

 

[Tallica]

Ok I think it's working correctly. When I'm home my connected, home, a wifi on profiles are on. When I'm away from my cell near sites I have no active profiles, and when I'm near my cell sites but not connected to my Wifi I have the home profile on and it looks like it scans but shuts off if it's not in range of my router (haven't really tesed this too much yet). This seems right, correct me If something isn't.

Now it just seems that my Wifi off profile is never active, please let me know if this is how it should be.

It should only activate when you lose your connection to your router for 30 seconds and then should disable itself again.

Ohhh ok, so it is right when not connected to my router and not in my "home" area I should have no active profiles (in regard to the wifi obviously)?

 

[b0red]

Try modifying this: Auto respond to phone call - Tasker Wiki
If you still need help I will rewrite it tomorrow for your needs

Hmm, interesting. But how do I combine them? It has to function under the condition that the phone is (auto)silenced by a meeting entry in google.

2 changes
Change this line:"+" - Alert - Popup Task Names - Task (Long Click) - Autotext - Task (Long Click) - Stop - Done - Done

To:"+" - Tasker - Run Task - Autotext - Done


Change this line: Add another context - Event - Hardware - Button: Long Search - Priority: Highest

to:
Add another context - State - Calendar Event - Fill out the information for your meeting (keeping it generic like at title *meeting*) - Priority Highest.

Seems 2 be working, not testet too much yet, but thanx for your work.

 

[NebulaOcton]

Hi, does anybody know how to create a profile to, say, pop up a notification every two weeks? Or the first Monday of every month? Can't for the life of me figure out how to repeat a time period outside of twelve hours.

Thanks in advance!

When setting up a profile select day as the context then on the drop down menu (that says Month Day) select Week Day then select monday.

Then in you profile start with
variable set - %WEEkNUM to %WEEKNUM+1
Notify if %WEEKNUM is odd (odd if it starts this today even if it starts next week)

 

[NebulaOcton]

Ok I think it's working correctly. When I'm home my connected, home, a wifi on profiles are on. When I'm away from my cell near sites I have no active profiles, and when I'm near my cell sites but not connected to my Wifi I have the home profile on and it looks like it scans but shuts off if it's not in range of my router (haven't really tesed this too much yet). This seems right, correct me If something isn't.

Now it just seems that my Wifi off profile is never active, please let me know if this is how it should be.

It should only activate when you lose your connection to your router for 30 seconds and then should disable itself again.

Ohhh ok, so it is right when not connected to my router and not in my "home" area I should have no active profiles (in regard to the wifi obviously)?

Yes that is correct.

 

[Tallica]

Thanks Nebula!

 

[NebulaOcton]

Hi, does anybody know how to create a profile to, say, pop up a notification every two weeks? Or the first Monday of every month? Can't for the life of me figure out how to repeat a time period outside of twelve hours.

Thanks in advance!

When setting up a profile select day as the context then on the drop down menu (that says Month Day) select Week Day then select monday.

Then in you profile start with
variable set - %WEEkNUM to %WEEKNUM+1
Notify if %WEEKNUM is odd (odd if it starts this today even if it starts next week)

You could also set up a calendar event for this and have Tasker trigger off that.

 

[justlookin]

Nebula, you are very clever, thank you so much!

Any guess why %LOC isn't working for me? Even with a simple notification popup %LOC returns literally "%LOC", whereas %LOCN returns actual coordinates (albeit not the ones I want). Thanks again in advance!

Hi, does anybody know how to create a profile to, say, pop up a notification every two weeks? Or the first Monday of every month? Can't for the life of me figure out how to repeat a time period outside of twelve hours.

Thanks in advance!

When setting up a profile select day as the context then on the drop down menu (that says Month Day) select Week Day then select monday.

Then in you profile start with
variable set - %WEEkNUM to %WEEKNUM+1
Notify if %WEEKNUM is odd (odd if it starts this today even if it starts next week)

 

[NebulaOcton]

Nebula, you are very clever, thank you so much!

Any guess why %LOC isn't working for me? Even with a simple notification popup %LOC returns literally "%LOC", whereas %LOCN returns actual coordinates (albeit not the ones I want). Thanks again in advance!

Hi, does anybody know how to create a profile to, say, pop up a notification every two weeks? Or the first Monday of every month? Can't for the life of me figure out how to repeat a time period outside of twelve hours.

Thanks in advance!

When setting up a profile select day as the context then on the drop down menu (that says Month Day) select Week Day then select monday.

Then in you profile start with
variable set - %WEEkNUM to %WEEKNUM+1
Notify if %WEEKNUM is odd (odd if it starts this today even if it starts next week)

My guess would be that you haven't gotten a GPS fix. if %LOCTMS is not set then you haven't gotten a fix. To get one I use this profile.
Press New
Name it Find my Phone
Location - Net and Gps should be green. Radius to 1km - Done
Name Context - Find my Phone
"+" - Tasker - Stop

Enable that profile while gps is on and then disable it after about 30 seconds and then check %LOC

 

[justlookin]

Nebula, it worked! Thanks again. You are a genius.

Nebula, you are very clever, thank you so much!

Any guess why %LOC isn't working for me? Even with a simple notification popup %LOC returns literally "%LOC", whereas %LOCN returns actual coordinates (albeit not the ones I want). Thanks again in advance!

When setting up a profile select day as the context then on the drop down menu (that says Month Day) select Week Day then select monday.

Then in you profile start with
variable set - %WEEkNUM to %WEEKNUM+1
Notify if %WEEKNUM is odd (odd if it starts this today even if it starts next week)

My guess would be that you haven't gotten a GPS fix. if %LOCTMS is not set then you haven't gotten a fix. To get one I use this profile.
Press New
Name it Find my Phone
Location - Net and Gps should be green. Radius to 1km - Done
Name Context - Find my Phone
"+" - Tasker - Stop

Enable that profile while gps is on and then disable it after about 30 seconds and then check %LOC

 

[Hondo1]

What Context to Use??

Have been working with Tasker for about a month but just discovered this forum today and have read all 50 pages of it Unfortunately, my question isn't answered, so maybe someone (nebula?) can help.

So I have been using Nebula's Low Battery Usage Wifi Enableing Profile Using Wifi Near and it works really well for me. In addition to the 4 items posted there, I also have a profile that turns Bluetooth on when I am no longer connected to my home wifi. It looks like this:
Name: Bluetooth Off
Context: Not wifi connected to my SSID
Context:Airplane Mode: Inverted
Task: Turn Bluetooth On
I don't have an exit task because BT is a setting and should revert back to its original state when the profile isn't active.

In addition, I wanted to try and find a way to also turn bluetooth off when I wasn't connected to BT in my car. If my car had a dock I know I could use that as a context but no such luck, as my car has built in BT so don't really need a dock. I tried setting it up by adding another context to the BLuetooth Off profile above (I added a 3rd Context that said if I wasn't connected via bluetooth to my car profile) When I did that it correctly turned BT off when I exited the car when I wasn't at home. But of course I forgot that when I got back into my car away from home, BT didn't turn on again....duh. I can't come up with any context (or profile/task) that will allow BT to turn on again. Anyone have an ideas?
Thanks for any help with this.

 

[NebulaOcton]

Would a widget work for you?

You could create a bluetooth scanning profile to run during certain hours...

Do you connect a charger when in the car?

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[Hondo1]

Don't really want to do a widget. For that I can just make a widget to turn BT on whenever I want. Was hoping to have Tasker do it seemlessly.
I don't usually connect it to a charger in the car, altho I do have one. I could use the "connected to charger" as a context and go from there. But then I would have to pull out my phone and connect it to the charger everytime I got into the car....:-(

Not sure what a bluetooth scanning profile would be??? Can you give me some details?

Thanks for such a quick reply!

 

[NebulaOcton]

Don't really want to do a widget. For that I can just make a widget to turn BT on whenever I want. Was hoping to have Tasker do it seemlessly.
I don't usually connect it to a charger in the car, altho I do have one. I could use the "connected to charger" as a context and go from there. But then I would have to pull out my phone and connect it to the charger everytime I got into the car....:-(

Not sure what a bluetooth scanning profile would be??? Can you give me some details?

Thanks for such a quick reply!

You could setup a repeating profile to turn bluetooth on for 30 seconds every 5 minutes. and turn it off if bluetooth doesn't connect
you would need a second profile scanning for bluetooth connected that sets a variable when connected and clears it when disconnected.