Tasker or Locale?

[UncleMike]

Tasker only checks your GPS location if the other conditions in the task are met. So it you have a task that runs between 0800-1200 and depends on your location, Tasker will only check your GPS location between those hours. After 1200, it won't check your GPS location because the time constraint is not met. It's not going to drain your battery any faster than GPS already is.

Tasker is very efficient in terms of power usage. It will check the least power hungry contexts first, and only check increasingly power hungry contexts if the less hungry contexts have been satisfied. Here's a guide to how Tasker ranks power hungriness:

Tasker: Power

 

[jamesdean]

I am trying to use Bluetooth Connected under select state or Bluetooth
under select net action and receive not available on this device
error. Am I doing something wrong? EVO 2.2 market edition.

 

[shafeeqrahaman]

hey there's y5 battery saver app over the android market can i get the tasker app to play the role of it too?? because they say we could virtually get anything done through it!!! so can we??:confused

 

[shafeeqrahaman]

can i have a group of contacts in my phone have to listen to a particular ringtone when they call me or even listen to my recorded voice using tasker app?

 

[lukebr]

Hey guys

im a long time Locale user with pretty much every plugin and have it doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things like CriticalCritic did but based on what i read here he has made the move across to Tasker and seems to be really loving it.

SO

Ive decided to give it a go but everyone is saying that it only costs $4 whereas locale costs $10 but Tasker is 4 pounds which is $10 anyway so it seems to be the same cost? (im in australia by the way).

Is there any way i can try it out before needing to shell out $11AUD

Cheers guys

 

[seeker613]

Yup, go to gasket.dinglisch.net n get a trialverdion there.

 

[UncleMike]

Yup, go to gasket.dinglisch.net n get a trialverdion there.

I think you mean: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/download.html

 

[bwsmith]

I have always used Locale and just bought the 4G/WiMax plug in to use with my EVO. I am considering trying Tasker but want to make sure that I can disable 4G as a setting. Also is there a default profile like in Locale. I like the priority profiles in Locale so that my default has 4G on and WiFi off, at work both turn off, and at home 4G turns off and wifi kicks in. I just want to make sure that it can do what I need since I am having some issues with the reliability of Locale.

 

[CriticalCritic]

I have always used Locale and just bought the 4G/WiMax plug in to use with my EVO. I am considering trying Tasker but want to make sure that I can disable 4G as a setting. Also is there a default profile like in Locale. I like the priority profiles in Locale so that my default has 4G on and WiFi off, at work both turn off, and at home 4G turns off and wifi kicks in. I just want to make sure that it can do what I need since I am having some issues with the reliability of Locale.

No, there isn't really a "default profile." But I can tell you now, after a couple months of Tasker, I am actually regretful that I didn't dump Locale sooner. It's more effective, more versatile, has more options, and is less expensive.

Sadly, I cannot find a 4G on/off setting in Tasker (The one thing I cannot find). Good news though... that Locale plugin you just bought should work with Tasker.

 

[yvolk]

I have always used Locale and just bought the 4G/WiMax plug in to use with my EVO. I am considering trying Tasker but want to make sure that I can disable 4G as a setting. Also is there a default profile like in Locale. I like the priority profiles in Locale so that my default has 4G on and WiFi off, at work both turn off, and at home 4G turns off and wifi kicks in. I just want to make sure that it can do what I need since I am having some issues with the reliability of Locale.

1. When I moved from Locale to Tasker I missed the "Defaults" situation of Locale...
But then I created new Task in the Tasker that I called "SetDefaults" and I put to this "SetDefaults" everything to set my Phone in my preferred "Default" state (set Wallpaper, Sound On, WiFi off, ...)
Next, I set this "SetDefaults" as Exit Task of _one_ of my profiles: "AtHome". So now I'm sure my phone is being set to the Default state at least once a day: every time I'm leaving my home.
This is MUCH more convenient than in Locale, where Defaults situation may be activated in different times of the day causing undesirable effects...

2. I'm using Tasker for a month already and CAN'T confirm that it's more reliable than Locale... I don't think it's less reliable also

 

[cosmicharade]

Well I'm sold, I just read the two pages on this thread and I have purchased a copy for my wife and I'll get a copy too, forget the trial, I'm ditching Locale. I can't wait to get stuck in to this.

My basic requirements

1) Everything up, loud and proud and fun when at home
2) Everything down, quiet, boring ring tone when at work
3) Turn everything down at night, block calls (some idiots like to call me at odd hours for some reason)
4) Turn everything up in the morning, sync NewsRob, change Google Talk status, etc
5) SMS my wife when I leave work and when I'm approaching her. This has not worked reliably in Locale even if I set a large radius.
6) Button activated situations like at an event at night and not at home, turn on vibrate and change Google Talk status, send return SMS to say I'm not available
7) Changing HTC Sense scenes would be nice if that's ever possible
8) Send return location SMS based on incoming SMS, so I can uninstall Wave Secure and Lookout (unless there is a good reason to have them)
9) Maybe silent or quiet at work except for certain calls
10) Turn on airplane mode after 11pm every night'
11) And and or type conditions would be nice too as discussed e.g. at event but NOT at home - turn off ringer, night time AND at home, turn down ringer, night time but NOT at home, don't turn down ringer, that sort of thing?

I'm also wondering why I was stubbornly sticking to Locale because of my $10 'investment' but I suppose if I purchase both I can switch back in the future if something amazing happens there (unlikely by the sounds of it).

 

[MaxiP]

Hi all

I've been a Locale user for quite some time but like many, am becoming frustrated by having to use an increasing number of plug-ins to do what (IMHO) the app should do itself. I've been playing with Tasker for a few days and so far, very impressed with the flexibility, Couple of questions that hopefully can get answered;

- default settings / profile order. I do like the way that Locale shows the order in which profiles are applied as it helps determine what settings need to be changed if things aren't working as expected. Is there a way to see profile orders so that I can have a default profile (i.e. minimal use) if other conditions aren't met - I could create a default profile for 0000-2359 that has these settings but how do I ensure that another profile (e.g. Car mode) takes preference ?
- profile management. Can be a bit confusing - is there a desktop tool that could be used to create & 'test' profiles so you could see what the impact was (e.g. have a desktop app that has a power / status bar so you can see what would happen if a particular profile [or profiles] were active ?)
- assign multiple tasks to single profile. Is it possible to have multiple tasks assigned to a single profile (beyond entry / exit) as this would reduce the number of profiles that I would need to maintain ?

Those aside, very powerful tool and very likely that I will ditch Locale and move to Tasker at the end of the trial.

TIA

 

[takeshi]

default settings / profile order. I do like the way that Locale shows the order in which profiles are applied as it helps determine what settings need to be changed if things aren't working as expected. Is there a way to see profile orders so that I can have a default profile (i.e. minimal use) if other conditions aren't met - I could create a default profile for 0000-2359 that has these settings but how do I ensure that another profile (e.g. Car mode) takes preference ?

Priority of the profiles. Priority is set via the profile properties.

- profile management. Can be a bit confusing - is there a desktop tool that could be used to create & 'test' profiles so you could see what the impact was (e.g. have a desktop app that has a power / status bar so you can see what would happen if a particular profile [or profiles] were active ?)

Not that I'm aware of. I've never had problems testing profiles on my device and I'm not sure how testing on a desktop emulator would really make things any easier. It seems like it would complicate things IMO. How would you simulate real world conditions? I mean, I have profiles that rely on the cell near state. How do I simulate being near the cell towers defined in the profile, etc?

What exactly do you find difficult with testing on the device?

- assign multiple tasks to single profile. Is it possible to have multiple tasks assigned to a single profile (beyond entry / exit) as this would reduce the number of profiles that I would need to maintain ?

You can have multiple actions per task. For example, I have a profile that has an entry and exit task. The entry task has 7 actions and the exit task has 6 actions. I might be missing something but why do you think you need more tasks? What would trigger the additional tasks?

 

[MaxiP]

Priority of the profiles. Priority is set via the profile properties.


Not that I'm aware of. I've never had problems testing profiles on my device and I'm not sure how testing on a desktop emulator would really make things any easier. It seems like it would complicate things IMO. How would you simulate real world conditions? I mean, I have profiles that rely on the cell near state. How do I simulate being near the cell towers defined in the profile, etc?

What exactly do you find difficult with testing on the device?


You can have multiple actions per task. For example, I have a profile that has an entry and exit task. The entry task has 7 actions and the exit task has 6 actions. I might be missing something but why do you think you need more tasks? What would trigger the additional tasks?

Profile priority - is that 'Lanuched Task Priority' and if so, which is higher 1 or 10

Multiple tasks per profile - perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I have a task called GPS enable / disable that I would like to call when starting several profiles before other tasks start (i.e. I wouldn't have to add a start GPS action into several tasks but could call a separate task to start, do what ever the disable (as exit task).

Testing - perhaps it;s my lack of profile priority but I can't see which profiles take priority (i.e. if 2 are active and 1 says GPS on and the other GPS off, which one is obeyed).

TIA

 

[UncleMike]

Profile priority - is that 'Lanuched Task Priority' and if so, which is higher 1 or 10...

10 is higher. But launched task priority won't cause one profile to override another like rearranging the order of profiles in Locale would. Launched task priority only affects tasks that are running concurrently. Any profile, when it becomes active, will override any settings set by another profile.

For example, let's you have a profile that silences your ringer when you're at home, and another profile that sets the ringer volume to 7 when the phone is docked in the car dock. If, as you leave home, you put the phone in the car dock, the ringer volume will be set to 7, even though you're still at home. If you're out in the car with the phone in the dock, and arrive at home, the ringer will be silenced, even though the phone is still docked.

You can affect this behavior by adding other contexts to your profile, such as adding "Not Docked Car" to your home profile. This way, when you arrive at home with the phone docked, the home profile will not activate until you remove the phone from the dock.

On the other hand, if you have two profiles that become active simultaneously (i.e. you have a profile with a power context, and a profile with a docked context, and you place the phone into a powered dock), the enter tasks for the two profiles will be run concurrently IF they have the same priority. If one has a higher priority, it will be executed first, and will override any conflicting settings in the enter task for the other profile.

 

[AirCatHeavy]

How would you tell Tasker to "Kill" an app after it has downloaded "X" megabytes of data?

I see the %httpd and greater than and the box for a number but what's lacking is an explanation of the fields.

For example, is there a reference to all the keywords in Tasker and what they do? How do we know what measure of units the box is using?

 

[barqers]

How would you tell Tasker to "Kill" an app after it has downloaded "X" megabytes of data?

I see the %httpd and greater than and the box for a number but what's lacking is an explanation of the fields.

For example, is there a reference to all the keywords in Tasker and what they do? How do we know what measure of units the box is using?

Check this out:
Tasker: Variables