This may be an odd request, but that's the whole point of Tasker I suppose. I have two different profiles based on my connection to specific wifi networks. One silences my phone when I'm at class or work on my university campus. The other is my home profile. The problem came recently when I moved into a school-owned apartment. The main campus wifi reaches my apartment (though very weakly, so fairly useless) and interferes with my home profile. I don't want to delete the campus network from my phone and tablet as I use that network regularly as well. I just need a way to block it when I'm at home (Tasker seemed like the way to go) not only for the sake of my profiles but also so my devices don't randomly switch over if my home wifi stutters a little.
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Block specific Wifi networks
- Thread starter nickc122
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It sounds like you'll probably need to use a location-based profile instead.
I thought about that. That would solve my problems in Tasker, but it wouldn't fix the problem where every time my apartment wifi stutters (which seems to happen a lot, I'll be working on that, too) my phone and especially my tablet jump over to campus wifi and have to be manually changed back. Is there any way to either set my devices to not connect automatically to the campus network (I could set a shortcut to connect manually each day, but totally reestablishing the settings each day would take too long) or to just ignore that network under certain conditions? Plug-ins or non-Tasker solutions are welcome, too.
How weak is the campus wifi from your apartment? If it's weak enough, checking the "Avoid poor connections" option under Settings > Wifi > (menu) > Advanced might do it.
JemmyDucks
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Isn't there also a setting in the 'wifi near' profile that allows the user to set a signal strength threshold? Setting this high enough should have the effect of 'blocking' the school network.