Help with tasker please

[Jez006]

Hi everyone,

(Samsung Galaxy S, Android 2.3.4)

I've had tasker for a while now and I have a few profiles running very well. Two that I am struggling with though:

1. Wifi connected ---> Keyguard off.

This NEVER seems to work. Has anyone been successful with this?


2. I live in a private road, which is accessed through a gate. The gate is on a landline phone number, and is opened by phoning the number, waiting for the "beep" and then pressing the # key. I'm trying to create a widget to do this for me. ie.

1. Phone xxxx-xxx-xxxx
2. Wait 10 seconds for call to connect and hear "beep"
3. Press # key
4. Hang up

I've basically got it all working apart from number 3. When I tell tasker to bring up the dialpad to enter the # key, it "minimises" the current call and brings up the dialpad for a new call! Then it enters #, which will not do anything since the other call has been minimised..

Any ideas?

Much appreciated,

Jez

 

[UncleMike]

I think this would be easier without Tasker. Just create a contact with the number xxx-xxx-xxxx,,,,,# and then create a direct dial shortcut on the home screen. This assumes that commas represent a 2-second pause. If you want to do it within Tasker, the same dial string should work.

 

[Jez006]

Thanks Mike,

Doing it without tasker, how do i create a delay between the phone "direct dial" and then entering the # key?

Thanks,

Jez

 

[UncleMike]

In the stock dialer, when entering the phone number for the contact, just tap the "*#(" key (lower left), and you should see options for Pause and Wait.

 

[Jez006]

Mike you legend. Think it's a bit different for me on a samsung but i worked it out.

Dialer --> enter number --> Menu key --> Add pause !!!!

Think I'll integrate it into a tasker widget so it hangs up for me

 

[6StringDave]

On the first question listed, I got the Keyguard-Off to work on my phone, but my phone is rooted. As I did not get a "superuser permissions" request, I'm not sure that this matters, so maybe your problem has a different cause.

What I did notice when I tried this is that Tasker has a first-use warning that "the keyguard option should probably not be used unless the screen is *on* and *unlocked*, so try this at your own risk". Hmmm... not sure that you can have either condition satisfied when you use it for this purpose! Still, there are scads of Market apps which do just this, so it's hardly experimental to do this.

What would make me happy is if I could shut my screen off by pushing the camera button (maybe a long-press to avoid anything unattended). Until I see a way, I'll have to use my accelerometer, tweaked with a Tasker context to shut it off (although not instantly) when I turn it face-down.