Tasker and Zooper Widget for unread badge notifications

[chris bondy]

I'm using tasker and zooper to try to display unread badge notifications for kik messenger. I've set up a profile to detect when kik messenger sends a notification to my phone. I'm using event-UI-notification in Tasker.....but Tasker is not recognizing my kik notifications. When I go into the "tasks" section of tasker and hit the "play" button for this particular task, it works fine....I can see the unread badge on my zooper widget.....but when I receive an actual message from someone in kik messenger, there is no unread badge on the zooper widget.

 

[chris bondy]

Update....I was able to download a plugin for tasker that recognized the notifications for kik. There is still one outstanding problem: every time I get a new kik message the unread badge counter goes up by 2 instead of 1. When I run the test in tasker, each push of the triangle button there adds one to the unread badge counter so there's an issue with how kik is sending notifications. Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[electricpete]

I also had problems with the Tasker in-built notification sensing... it didn't see notificaitons from certain apps (like gtasks). I downloaded the plugin notification listener which seems more reliable and sees notifications from my app of interest. It also is free and has very few permissions, which I like.

I understand your problem is maybe you are getting notifications both when a kik message is received and also when you do something within the kik app to view the notificcation? (and your Tasker logic is counting them both). If that's the case, then you need to be able to discriminate from the various notifications received from the kik app. With notification listener (and probably other solutions), you can see both the title and body text of the notification. See what type of title and body text you receive...maybe you can use that to distinguish between the two types of kik notifications and only count the incoming message notifications.