What have YOU done with Tasker?

[wfochis]

beepsilver: very awesome!

 

[bkendrick]

Just wanted to share some things I've done. Some profiles I have running are: car dock, random tones, random notify sounds, auto reboot, auto clear cache.

Some cool things I've done on my home screen:

Volume profile menu with widget icon changer.....
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Then home icon changes based on selection
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Then I have status Widgets. When the tasks are ran auto or manually they change the widget name to the date and time they were ran:
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This app is amazing!

DX. CFU. LIB 2.0.1

 

[beepsilver]

I pulled this profile setup from the Wiki and I can't figure out exactly how to setup the MPH conversion--can anyone pls provide some detail on that particular portion of the profile? Here it is:

Auto Respond While Driving
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This profile will automatically respond to any received SMS when you are driving (or moving).

How it works.
Upon receiving a text the phone will check if it is near WiFi, this prevents the phone from grabbing GPS Locations if you are sitting at home/office, the task checks to see if your GPS is enabled (if not, it will enable it) then grabs your current location. It will only respond to the text if your speed is faster than 5 mph. There is an additional task to convert the %LOCSPD from m/s to MPH and sets variable %LOCSPDMPH.

Need to create an additional task.
This profile calls another task called "Convert_LOCSPD_MPH." You will need to create that. The task is simply a "Variable Set" of variable %LOCSPDMPH, set that to %LOCSPD * 2.23693629. Select the "Do Maths" option. This makes it easier to know how fast you are going. This is the portion I cannot figure out--Can someone please provide step-by-step instructions? Thank you!


Near WiFi
One of the conditions for the profile is to see if you are close to your home/office WiFi. This prevents unnecessary GPS Location lookups if you are sitting at home. THIS IS SET TO MY HOME'S SSID You should modify (for your home/office) or remove the condition.

SMS to Send
This is currently set to: "(Auto) Texting and driving is dangerous. I'm currently driving (at %LOCSPDMPH MPH). Will respond to you when I can safely."

You can modify if you like. Watch out if you are a speeder!

Figured it out:

After you import this profile from the Tasker Wiki, all you have to do is this:

Open Tasker and press the Tasks button at the bottom of the screen.
Select New Task at the top of the popup.
Name the new task "Convert_LOCSPD_MPH" (without quotations)
Select the "+" to enter an action
Select Variable
Select Variable Set
Name the Variable Set: %LOCSPDMPH
In the "To" field enter: %LOCSPD*2.23693629 (there should be no spaces)
Put a check mark in the "Do Maths" box
Select "Done" to save your action
You should be done. Now to test:

Send yourself an SMS Message so the following test applies to you and not the last person who texted you.
Open your imported Tasker profile and edit the Auto Respond (If Driving) task.
Select action number 5, the Send SMS action.
Uncheck the "If" condition at the bottom of the action and select Done to close the window.
On the next screen, select Test, wait for the Kill All button to disappear, then hit cancel (so you don't have to go back and check the if condition--it'll already be checked because you cancelled instead of saved).
Wait for your message to appear--your message should state you're traveling at 0 MPH.

Hope this works well for everyone!
I don't have a Tasker Wiki acct, so if the readers here want to update the Tasker Wiki with this info, be my guest.

 

[pentium10]

Question 1:

Home screen and rotate left gesture to open Camera

I have HTC Legend and I am using the default home screen.
I've tried to find a Home application in the list but I couldn't find
it. There is one HTC Sense, and I've configured that as application
context.
Next I have configured a gesture for the rotate stuff.
Gesture works ok, as when I do it, the Camera app starts up.
But it seams the application context is not working, because whenever
I do the gesture in other apps it loads the Camera app. What I am
doing wrong? How can I setup the correct Home screen detection?

Question 2:

Detect phone pick-up and/or movement/location change when in AirplaneMode

I have setup Tasker to start AirplaneMode after 30 minutes of No
Service detection.
Now I want to do with Tasker a reminder that will remind me to turn
off AirplaneMode at 30 minutes interval (as I might forget it activate it back).
I am thinking something like:
- phone pick-up has been detected (screen was not turned on)
- phone is in movement (probably in my pocket, no screen on)
- phone location changed (at all this is possible to be detected while
in AirplaneMode? )
What is the best way to setup this reminder?

Question 3:

Has anyone success with HTC Sense alarms and the labels?
I can't get a trigger for Alarm Dismisses. I have HTC Legend and I using the default inbuilt HTC Sense Alarm Clock application.

 

[tommyb94]

I have tried to create simple profile where in the browser, the screen timeout would be about 10 minutes but it doesn't seem to work. I have set it so that when the default Brower is opened, display timeout is set to 10 but no luck. Any ideas?

 

[ArtieD]

tommyb94 - I'm not sure how to write your Tasker profile. But Dolphin HD browser has a setting where you can leave the screen on continuously while the browser is open. Other browsers may have a similar setting, although although the default browser does not have that setting.

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[hollywoodfrodo]

Problem with Alarm Dismiss Action

I am also having a problem getting Alarm dismiss to trigger an action. I am just trying to get Tasker to open an App when I dismiss my alarm, but it's not working. I am able to get it to open an app when the alarm goes off, but the problem with that is that stops the alarm.

I have a rooted HTC Incredible running Virtuous (so basically same as Stock Sense UI)

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[sandfreak]

hey tasker pro's

i just bought this app going on about 48 hours now and i still can't quite figure it out. i've been going through this thread but it will take me some time so i wanted to ask a couple questions about my profiles i made.

i made one that connects to my home wifi, and when my home wifi is out of range it turns off wifi on my phone. it seems to work fine as when i leave my house it turns off and when i come back it turns on. but after a while when i'm home the wifi will turn off by itself and tells me my home wifi is out of range, so then i have to turn tasker off and reboot phone to get it to connect again. weird. the profile for this is as follows

context: wifi near (and i inputted my ssid so it recognizes my home wifi)/ task: wifi on, end task: wifi off

the next profile i made was so with any wifi network (not just my home) when i disconnect from a network it will turn wifi off, i'm assuming the the issue with this one is similar to the one above, i think i'm missing something. the profile is as follows

context: wifi connected (i have the inverted box checked) which means when i'm looking at my profiles it actually says not wifi connected/ task: wifi off, end task: wifi on

so, i'm almost positive it's user error, as this app is a little over my head but i'm trying. i thought these would be easy profiles to start with but i guess i'm wrong. i also have a couple other profiles that i'm working on but i'd like to get these two worked out first.

any help would be greatly appreciated. now back to reading through this ginormous thread

 

[sandfreak]

nobody uses tasker anymore?

 

[foxdog]

I just had an idea, anyone know how to make a task wait like 5-7 seconds before enabling?

 

[bkendrick]

You could try the "wait" or "wait until" functions.

DX. CFU. LIB GB.7

 

[decalex]

Has anyone found a decent solution to getting Google Voice SMS (texts) trigger a popup, from a screen-off state?

--similar to how handcent or sms popup (both on market) work?

I've played around with a solution that pulls the text from the notification bar, but doesn't seem to be working anymore. fwiw, I only use the Google Voice app for sms-- have disabled all others. Any help super appreciated!

 

[sandfreak]

i'd like to see this thread get going again...cuz i'm new to tasker

 

[Lenster]

I have had one problem with tasker. It has happened 3x over the past week of setting up profiles. I have been entering and exiting profiles to modify and test them and all of a sudden my profiles screen is completely blank. No profiles (and I had a least 6 of them) showing. Reboot did not help. I did a restore and they came back.

A question also. After creating a new profile followed by a new context, I get a popup listing task selections. The first one is "New Task" the rest are tasks I have already created. How can I delete some of those listed tasks. I know they are not being used?

Len

 

[Lenster]

I have had one problem with tasker. It has happened 3x over the past week of setting up profiles. I have been entering and exiting profiles to modify and test them and all of a sudden my profiles screen is completely blank. No profiles (and I had a least 6 of them) showing. Reboot did not help. I did a restore and they came back.

A question also. After creating a new profile followed by a new context, I get a popup listing task selections. The first one is "New Task" the rest are tasks I have already created. How can I delete some of those listed tasks. I know they are not being used?

Len

Well. I figured out the question about deleting unused tasks. But the problem I mentioned above still persists. If I do nothing but enter a Profile, edit the tasks, change nothing, back out and go to another Profile to do the same, Eventually after backing out of a Profile instead of a screen listing my profiles, I get a blank screen with the popup to add a new Profile. Fortunately, I can restore my backups.

Running Droid Concepts 11 with a P3 Kernel. The phone runs great except for this issue.