Hi folks
Need some help creating an event that only fires once a day.
I am using Auto SMS to send a text when I enter an area to let my family know I am on my way home. However, as it connects and reconnects to the tower(s) in that area, it keeps firing SMS messages.
I received this advice when I asked Steve at KebabApps:
but I am having trouble understanding what is an action, what is an event, and how to string them together. I don't understand why setting a variable makes the event fire only once. I must be missing something.
There are a few things about Llama that you need to understand (and I agree that the naming is not very intuitive).
Profiles: You can create profiles to behave certain ways, like creating a "Silent" profile for when you're in church or a movie theater. From the top select Profiles and hit the "+" on the bottom to create a new profile or just edit an existing one. You don't have to create profiles but they can be very useful.
Areas: You can teach Llama different locations based on the cell towers that are "visible" to the phone. For example, you may want to teach Llama where your home, office, church, movie-theater are-- and assign them a name. Then later you can have Llama perform different actions when the phone enters, leaves, is inside, or outside that location. You have to be in that location to teach Llama to recognize it. To do so, select "Areas" from the top and "+" at the bottom. It will walk you through.
Events: These are really "If-Then" commands, where the "If's" are what Llama calls "Conditions" and the "Thens" are what Llama calls "Actions". Examples:
Church Quiet Event: (If) Condition is Area church, (then) Action is "Quiet" profile.
In Car Event: (If) Condition is Bluetooth connected to car stereo AND (if) Condition is charging, (then) Actions are, Brightness full, Volume full, screen-time-out off, launch Waze-GPS, & launch Pandora.
Typically you want to create these "Events" in oppositely-functioning pairs so that, for example, when you leave church you go back to a Normal profile and when you disconnect from your car's stereo, you undo the aforementioned settings and kill the apps. To create an "Event" tap on "Events" at the top. Then select the "Conditions" and then the "Actions".
Advanced: The "advanced" technique that Steve was trying to tell you about is that when editing an "Event" you'll see a menu option called "Advanced...". If you select that, you can control things like "Delay Event" to delay the action taken and "Repeat Event" where you can choose whether or not to repeat it at a user-defined interval.
I hope that helps.
