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Ah, I see, the only thing I'd set Tasker up so far was to turn on/off volume when I plug in earphones or a BT headset.But I see what you're talking about now. I didn't realize there was a car dock mode either, what does it do? I love these forums.
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I've got a car dock (just using basic holder, no charger or anything) NFC up and running, and when i put phone into holder, it launches Car Home Ultra, Turns up Volume and switches off wifi.
But how do i revert to my "non car dock interface" when i remove my phone from the dock?
Has anyone on a stock gsm rom got around the issue that neither Tasker or nfc-Tasker can launch the GPS?
Does anyone know how to set it up so that one tag can launch tasks (tasker tasks, for instance) on two separate phones? it seems NFC task launcher stores the actual instructions on the phone instead of the NFC tag. I'm not sure if it's because of tag storage limitations but I'm sure they can figure out a way to make it fit.
Even reinstalling NFC task launcher on the phone that created the tag makes the tag useless. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong?
I'm using Tasker quite a bit with NFC Launcher. As a matter of fact, I now really only use the launcher to launch my Tasker task, and it works VERY well like that. I can't recommend Tasker enough, when used in conjunction with NFC Launcher! Together, they really are powerful.
No, you don't have to set up a context - only the Tasker events.
For example, I have a tag I put on my car dock. That tag does only one thing - it runs a Tasker task (event) that I named "car dock." (surprise!) Below is a partial listing of the tasker events that run, when I put my phone on the dock. Not shown, but Tasker also opens Car Home Ultra (my car dock app) as well as my navigation app. Note that Tasker also sets my phone to car dock mode (didn't even realize the Nexus had a car dock mode...lol) and it sets the time out to 'never' as long as it's plugged in - neither of these can be done in NFC Launcher at this time, as far as I know.
Good luck!
You're doing something wrong
By default all tag information is encoded onto the tag itself. The exception to this rule is Profile tags (EDIT: This is changed for the next release. Profile tags will be on the tag now as well).
Profile tags leverage saved tags (mainly due to space constraints). Saved tags are stored locally, read by ID from the local database and executed. As a result they only work on your local device and will not function as expected if the app is removed or data cleared.
Tasker commands as part of a standard Task tag write directly to the tag itself in the form of : Tasker Command:Task Name
Now, EACH phone will need to have a Tasker Task with that exact name. That's really outside of my control though.
The easiest thing to separate out the NFC launching of the task from Tasker failing to perform the action is to create your task, then add a Tasker widget to the desktop. When you place the widget, it'll ask you to choose a task. So choose your "kill pandora" task. Then launch pandora, start it playing, head back to your desktop and hit the widget.
If Pandora goes quiet, you know the task itself works and it's a problem with how it's getting called. If Pandora doesn't go quiet, you'll know the task isn't set up right.
I had two tags in my car and today it won't read either of them. NFC is on. I rebooted the phone, uninstalled and reinstalled NFC Task launcher - still nothing.
I had added in the new Google Wallet app last night (I had the side loaded version before) and wondered if that had anything to do with this change, so I uninstalled it. Still won't read tags.
Any ideas??
Ordered my tags and messed up on the pre-formatting option. Thought I'd clicked it but apparently did not.
Now I gotta wait for the bug fix - boo, still haven't found anything to test my NFC functionality on.
Are they profile tags? Profile tags need to be recreated since the last release as the command text is now stored on the tag and not reliant on a local database lookup.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure that i understand. Since the last release of NFC Task Launcher? They are my original tags that I have been using for weeks. So I trash them and recreate more tags? If so, will I have to do this with each release of the program?
Ordered my tags and messed up on the pre-formatting option. Thought I'd clicked it but apparently did not.
Now I gotta wait for the bug fix - boo, still haven't found anything to test my NFC functionality on.
Krohnjw, are my old tags reuse able at all?
Ok, so I've been following this thread, yet to purchase any tags (plan on doing so soon). But in the meant time I got this crazy idea. I'm sure someone could probably take this, run with it and probably make some good money on it, alas I don't have the knowledge or resources... ANYWAYS...
How cool would it be to develop an NFC tag small enough and durable enough to line the inside of a ring? Think about it, the tag could be written to unlock your phone (though right now I don't believe that's possible due to android security permissions) so that each time you just hold your phone, it knows that it's you holding it and unlocks. SWEET! haha just sayin...![]()
This would be very difficult at best. The problem being that rings are metal. NFC Tags on metal need an isolation layer when in contact with a metal surface in order to function (making them significantly thicker). Unless your ring was way too large this would definitely make it not fit. This assumes you could design the IC in such a shape that it would fit inside of a ring.