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What Tasker profiles is everyone using?? (This thread is NOT for requesting help with profiles)

I made a simple profile to read my text messages when I am in my car and connected to bluetooth. It works but only through the phone speaker, not the car's. However, if I am on a call it will read them very loudly through the car speaker, interrupting the call.

I can't find a way to force it to say the text message through the car speaker. I also can't find any action or variable that says "if on call" so I can disable the profile

Also, is there a way to disable notifications completely? Or only silence them?

Any help would be great.
 
I'm a little confused with how Tasker aquirer CELLID from GSM towers comparied to other programs like fx. OpenSignal. Fx. I can't find the tower ID that Tasker seems to find, showed in OpenSignal. Is it me that reads something wrong, or is it because OpenSignal is incomplete? Otherwise, could someone tell me a better alternative to finding GSM towers near You via a map?
 
can you lot help me plz:

ok,
i use tasker to tell me when my phone is fully charged through a voice command,
but everytime when i have pico tts (original htc voice recogniser), when my phone is fully charged it wont say anything, but what happens is that it displays a txt saying - tts: unsupported locale.

ive downloaded another voice (ivona) when i go to settings and switch it to ivona tasker WILL say the voice command?

why wont it work for pico tts?
 
Yeah, I think the import profiles option disappeared in the latest update. It definitely used to be there.
 
Is it possible, like the GPS and Wifi, to make BT activate and make a seach for possible connections like every 2 min? And if no possible connections, then turn OFF, and if there is a possible connection, then connect, and stay ON until disconnected?
 
Well AFAIK the GPS issue doesn't work on versions of Android 2.3 and higher... no program can change the GPS state, unless maybe the program gets root access..

I know for a fact that Avast! AV can change GPS state. Tasker isn't a root app though I don't think, it's never asked me for Superuser status ever anyway.

On a different note. I'm having problems with setting the brightness. No matter what I choose I cannot get the brightness to change when opening a program to which I have set the brightness to go to max until it is closed again.

Is this because I am letting Juice Defender manage my brightness for me? Shouldn't Tasker still be able to change it even if JD changes it back? The point is that Tasker doesn't change it at all...

This program was very expensive, I want to find some more uses for it.
 
Leijonasisu said:
Well AFAIK the GPS issue doesn't work on versions of Android 2.3 and higher... no program can change the GPS state, unless maybe the program gets root access..

I know for a fact that Avast! AV can change GPS state. Tasker isn't a root app though I don't think, it's never asked me for Superuser status ever anyway.

On a different note. I'm having problems with setting the brightness. No matter what I choose I cannot get the brightness to change when opening a program to which I have set the brightness to go to max until it is closed again.

Is this because I am letting Juice Defender manage my brightness for me? Shouldn't Tasker still be able to change it even if JD changes it back? The point is that Tasker doesn't change it at all...

This program was very expensive, I want to find some more uses for it.
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I change brightness on my Moto Defy (Android 2.2) ok, I've disabled JD from managing brightness in case of any conflicts. I'd try stopping JD from doing it.
 
Leijonasisu said:
Well AFAIK the GPS issue doesn't work on versions of Android 2.3 and higher... no program can change the GPS state, unless maybe the program gets root access..

I know for a fact that Avast! AV can change GPS state. Tasker isn't a root app though I don't think, it's never asked me for Superuser status ever anyway.

On a different note. I'm having problems with setting the brightness. No matter what I choose I cannot get the brightness to change when opening a program to which I have set the brightness to go to max until it is closed again.

Is this because I am letting Juice Defender manage my brightness for me? Shouldn't Tasker still be able to change it even if JD changes it back? The point is that Tasker doesn't change it at all...

This program was very expensive, I want to find some more uses for it.
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Tasker can use root, for example to kill an app.

If you use an AOSP ROM like CM7 Tasker can still properly change GPS settings.

I am not sure how Tasker and JD interact with each other, I only use Tasker. I think I do just about everything JD does using Tasker.
 
Sometimes you need an actual app. One that approximates your gestures, at least in spirit, is "Shake To Shuffle". It operates all the time, even when the screen has shut off. As long as music is playing, it works.

So perhaps someone has written an app to do your playlist gestures.

Mikey Avoc said:
The tilt gestures only work when the headset is plugged in, so that I don't inadvertently skip tracks forward and backward while using my phone all day.

One minor problem is that the gestures don't appear to be sensed unless the screen is turned on. Is there any way to get around that?

I'm looking forward to digging further into Tasker!
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is there a profile to disable all notifications while listening to music? i HATE being in the middle of a song and then the text or email notification sound pops up
 
rcrott1 said:
is there a profile to disable all notifications while listening to music? i HATE being in the middle of a song and then the text or email notification sound pops up
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I tried doing something like that, but it didn't work. I'd be curious as to any solutions on this front.
 
Actually, I don't mind the notification sound, but I'd like for it to be able to pause the song, make the notification, and then resume. What it does now is just play right over the song.
 
I'm trying to set up the Intermediate profile of "Set volume then Launch menu of music apps" from the Tasker wiki. Seems straightforward enough. However, I can't seem to change the task type to List. When I follow the instructions and click on the wrench I don't get an option of changing the task type, only options about collision handling and keeping the device awake. I'm running 1.2u2m. Thanks!

I found an updated profile for 1.2 on the Tasker wiki that solved the problem.
 
Does silencing the notifications not work? Can't you set up tasks that when head phones plug in, turns on silent mode but media volume turned on. Removal of headphones would then restore ringers/notifications etc
 
I don't know if this has been covered before, apologies if so.

I hate it when my phone is on silent, to avoid waking my daughter it often is, but my daughter has also hidden my phone.

So i have a profile so when i text "lost" to my phone, it whacks the media volume up to max, plays some Faith No More and pops a button up.

Once i find the phone i press the button which turns the music off and puts the media volume back down to something normal.
 
alackman said:
Does silencing the notifications not work? Can't you set up tasks that when head phones plug in, turns on silent mode but media volume turned on. Removal of headphones would then restore ringers/notifications etc
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Unfortunately, that doesn't work. What you get is a silent space where a notification sound would be. So silence interrupts the music instead of a notification sound.
 
aysiu said:
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. What you get is a silent space where a notification sound would be. So silence interrupts the music instead of a notification sound.
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This is odd, I've just tested this with phone call, text and email when alerts are on silence and the music doesn't get interupted at all. The visual pop up just appears but no affect to the music playing. Maybe it is specific to your phone? I'm using HTC sensation xe.
 
alackman said:
This is odd, I've just tested this with phone call, text and email when alerts are on silence and the music doesn't get interupted at all. The visual pop up just appears but no affect to the music playing. Maybe it is specific to your phone? I'm using HTC sensation xe.
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Could be. I'm using a Galaxy Nexus. I may also have flubbed up the implementation. I can try again.
 
Simba501 said:
Headphones plugged in - Vibrate mode, media volume changes to 5 (to protect ears), display turns on (so I can quickly proceed to the media I was going to), auto-brightness turns on (for when I'm going outside and my normally dim display makes it hard to change songs)
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Can u please post the tasks in detail?
 
Thankz CodeMonkey for Your input. I'm now trying a different approch insted for more precision. Now using Wifi Near. But I'm having problems with profiles firing off, when not to. I have a Wifi near and a No Wifi Near. But when I'm near a wifi which I have set a Not Wifi Near context for, I still se it firing off. What am I doing wrong? I can't figure out how to set Min. Activate Signal, when using Not Wifi Near. I get that, when using Wifi Near, it dictates at which signal stength, the profile should fire off. But shouldn't change to the opposite when chosing Not Wifi Near?

I've made my own profile that activates Wifi ones in a while. I couldn't make Taskers own bulit in Wifi On/Off/search work proberly. It seemed to live its own life, not respecting the timeframes set in Monitoring. Also it only seemed to work, when Wifi Near is set to Toggle. Am I missing something, is there something I don't understand?

Thankz
 
A lot of people seem to be interested in creating profiles to mimick Juice Defender. That's quite simple apart from switching off radios only when there is no network traffic going on. Tasker does not control network traffic by itself, so reading some files is needed.

So here's what I've done:

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Profile Screen (%SCREEN=on)
Task RadioToggle, Collision handling=abort existing task
- Net, Mobile Data On
- Task, Wait 30 seconds until %SCREEN=off
- Tasker, Perform Task Net_Threshold
- Net, Mobile Data off

Task Net_Threshold
- Variable Set %CHG=0, label=1
- Tasker, Perform Task Network
- Variable Set %OLD to %RXD, do math on
- Task, Wait 5 seconds
- tasker, Perform Task Network
- Variable Set %CHG to %RXD-%OLD, do math on
- Variable Set %CHG to 20000 if %CHG<0
- Goto label 1 if %CHG>3000

Task Network
- Variable Set %RXD=0
- Variable Clear %NG3
- File, Test File Parent Dir xxx in %NG3, continue task after error
- File, Read Line xxx to %RXD if %NG3 is set, continue task after error
- File, Read Line xxx to %RXD if %RXD=EOF, continue task after error
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xxx is the name of the file where received network traffic numbers are stored.
in Samsung Galaxy S there are 3 network interfaces and corresponding files:
/sys/class/net/dpd0/statistics/rx_bytes
/sys/class/net/svnet0/statistics/rx_bytes
/sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes
other devices may have different interfaces names, that's why I left xxx. Use NetSentry to find out the correct interfaces names.

I've set less than 3000bytes/5secs as threshold to turn radios off. You can play with those settings, Juice Defender has 10kb/15secs as default threshold.

if you want to use all 3 interfaces, you just have to change a bit the network task above, and add a variable sum at the end of the task. If you want to compute also outbound traffic, there are /tx_bytes file in the same folders.

Everybody is more than welcome to try, modify debug or give suggestions!
 
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