Software to turn of music when leaving house

[olskar]

Hi,

I was thinking it would be cool with a software on android that for example turn the music on your computer of when leaving home, and starting it again when getting back home.

This could work by for example letting the bluetooth on the computer and phone know when they are near eachother and define actions based on that.

Is there such software out there? Thanks!

 

[coos lick]

Locale or Tasker both do this on the phone. They are both paid apps though and I've not used them so I don't know if you can set them up to send a signal to a home pc. Maybe someone with these could check and see?

 

[UncleMike]

I've been using Tasker since before it was released, and I don't know of any way for it to specifically control a PC. If you have shortcuts on your PC that will do this, it may be possible to trigger them based on the proximity of your phone.

The easiest thing I can think of trying is to have a script running on your PC that pings the IP address of the phone (assuming you have Wifi, and the phone and PC are on the same LAN). If you get a reply to the ping, this would confirm that the phone is nearby, and no reply would indicate that it's not nearby. You could then have the script execute the shortcuts appropriately.