Help Wallpaper

[jreink01]

Hello, I am trying to automate changing my wallpaper every two hours. There is a you tube video in how to do this. I followed it to the t but i can't get it to work. Tasker is saying can't find the path. I have all my wallpapers in a folder on my s card. All of the pictures are jpeg. The only difference from the video is his were in png format. When i first tried this in tasker it said it only accepts png and jpeg formats. I went into my es file explorer and found the file, copied the file path and pasted it exactly. I have attached a screenshot of the error. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Thom]

Maybe it was deleted? Did you do a refresh in ES3 to verify it was still there?

Try ...

Pictures/Wallpapers/w37.jpeg

... Thom

 

[jreink01]

Thanks for the reply. I changed it to what you suggested and did not work, same error. I also verified that the file does exist in es file explorer.

I got it to accept 1 picture from my wallpaper folder, but cannot get it to do more than 1 picture. In the you tube video, it said to insert w%Random.jpeg When i do that, it can't find it and gives me a error.

 

[jreink01]

This is the video where I was following along. Its the second task.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=223&v=V1fMVJgQIS0

 

[Thom]

I thought you were asking something different. For your original to work,
w1.jpeg
through
w80.jpej
must exist in the directory.

Take a look at ...

aaaa
A1: Variable Randomize [ Name:%random Min:1 Max:80 ]
A2: Flash [ Text:Pictures/Wallpaers/w%random. jpeg Long:Off ]

... Thom

 

[jreink01]

I created

I thought you were asking something different. For your original to work,
w1.jpeg
through
w80.jpej
must exist in the directory.

Take a look at ...

aaaa
A1: Variable Randomize [ Name:%random Min:1 Max:80 ]
A2: Flash [ Text:Pictures/Wallpaers/w%random. jpeg Long:Off ]

... Thom

I created another folder on my internal sd and imported 2 pictures, the changed the names to w1.jpeg and w2.jpeg.
I'm not sure about the other things you mention, kinda lost there. I looked in the variable randomize, under name it is %RANDOM Min 1 Max 80
Not sure where the A2 is your talking about. I tried again and got same error, cannot find the file. Found the A2 you were talking about and changed. When I'm into es file explorer, and I go to my folder that has the wallpapers, my path is /storage/sdcard0/testwallpapers so for the path in tasker, I am using /storage/sdcard0/testwallpapers/w%random.jpeg with this I continually get the error.

 

[Thom]

You need to change your random range in your new configuration to min 1 max 2.

My sample is a flash statement that lists the address. It changes each time it is run. It demonstrates how randomize is implemented.

All randomize is doing is a character substitution in the name within the min/max range that you specify.

All files must exit in your directory with names in that range.

... Thom

 

[jreink01]

You need to change your random range in your new configuration to min 1 max 2.

My sample is a flash statement that lists the address. It changes each time it is run. It demonstrates how randomize is implemented.

All randomize is doing is a character substitution in the name within the min/max range that you specify.

All files must exit in your directory with names in that range.

... Thom

I think I got it to work with your suggestions. I have 53 wallpapers in my folder. I changed them all to w1.jpeg, w2.jpeg, and so on. Changed the random range max to 53. When I click on the play button, I get the green circle instead of the error. Thanks for your help.

 

[jreink01]

I am having some issues with some of my wallpapers. It seems like some of my wallpapers are not cycling thru randomly. Those wallpapers appear to be the ones that are not fullscreen. I grabbed the wallpapers from my quickpic app, they have hundreds of wallpapers to choose from but I noticed that some are fullscreen and some are just the pic in the middle of the screen. Have any idea why those wallpapers are not cycling thru?

 

[Thom]

Well mine works like a champ.

Cycle through doesn't have any meaning in the task we were talking about. The random action is just randomly picking a number in the range that was described. It may select some more than others.

If you want to cycle through then you chance the radon action to an incremental action.

... Thom

 

[Thom]

Random​

Profile: aaaa
Time: Every 2m
Enter: aaaa
A1: Variable Randomize [ Name:%rand Min:1 Max:36 ]
A2: Set Wallpaper [ Image:tlanet/image/wallpaper/%rand.jpg Scale:Off Crop:Off ]

Sequential​

Profile: aaaa
Time: Every 2m
Enter: aaaa
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%Rand To:0 Do Maths:On Append:Off ] If [ %Rand ~ 36 | %Rand !Set ]
A2: Variable Add [ Name:%Rand Value:1 Wrap Around:0 ]
A 3: Set Wallpaper [ Image:tlanet/image/wallpaper/%Rand.jpg Scale:Off Crop:Off ]

... Thom