[APP] Tasker Profiles

[dubluv17]

Question: I currently have my Tasker open my Music app when I plug in my headphones but I would rather have it open my "music" folder so that I can then choose what music app I wanna use. Does anyone know how to have tasker just open a folder on the homescreen rather than an app? Did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Thanks.

 

[SR3TLAW]

Having this same problem. Any fix

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[chip.hughes]

Question: I currently have my Tasker open my Music app when I plug in my headphones but I would rather have it open my "music" folder so that I can then choose what music app I wanna use. Does anyone know how to have tasker just open a folder on the homescreen rather than an app? Did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Thanks.

If you are asking for what I think you are, you need to install "file magic". Here is my profile. (first time I've added an attachment, hope I did it right) I use mine for the radio, but you can change it to anything.

 

[chip.hughes]

If you are asking for what I think you are, you need to install "file magic". Here is my profile. (first time I've added an attachment, hope I did it right) I use mine for the radio, but you can change it to anything.

One more time.

 

[REYES702]

Question: I currently have my Tasker open my Music app when I plug in my headphones but I would rather have it open my "music" folder so that I can then choose what music app I wanna use. Does anyone know how to have tasker just open a folder on the homescreen rather than an app? Did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Thanks.

Make a profile with the state headset plugged. Then make a task that will pop up an alert, it can say chose our whatever you want it to say. Then choose the X that is made from a wrench and change it from execute to menu. Next have it open up whayever apps you want. It then should have a menu popup asking which app. IE:

 

[neotericpiguy]

I've been trying to get a profile setup so that it will turn off mobile data for 9 minutes and turn it on for 4 minutes. Essentially I want tweetdeck, email, facebook to only poll every 15 minutes to try and save battery when the screen is off. Right now I have one profile:

Poller
1. Mobile Data off
2. Wait 9 minutes
3. Mobile Data on
4. Wait 4 minutes
5. Goto 1

Whenever the display is off I enable the Poller profile and when ever the display is on I disable the poller and immediately set Mobile Data on. I feel like I get better battery life, but I'm not sure. I hope there is a more elegant way of getting better battery life with tasker.

 

[Hextall]

Just got tasked, loving it.

Im trying to set up a navigation profile to enable gps when launched (this works well with a widget) and then turn off gps when I close navigation. Only problem is that when I go to sideload another app my gps turns off because I'm no longer focusing on the navigation app. This causes the annoying "check gps settings" box to come up when I return and its hard to get rid of.

Is there any way to fix this? Perhaps tell it to kill gps when I EXIT navigation completely? I dont know!

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On the exit task, I put a "wait 5 minutes" task before turning off the gps.

I still get "check gps settings" sometimes when opening navigation apps (apps open faster than the turn on gps function). But you can create widgets to get around this too (turn on gps, wait 5-ish seconds, start app).

 

[SR3TLAW]

The five minutes idea is genius. What are GTE parameters to make this happen.

Thanks

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[ccrape]

I'm pretty sure this is nothing new but I just wanted to share some of the things that I've configured tasker to do. I was a locale user for some time, but found tasker to be a bit more user friendly and so far so good.

1. Car
Context - State - Car Dock

Task(s):
Road
Bluetooth On
GPS On
Display Stay On
Display Brightness Max
Ringer Volume Level 7
GTalk Updater - status - busy "not available on the road"
SwiftReply - Auto Respond to sms while on the road (can be done without swiftreply, but this is how I did it)

OffRoad (exit task)
GPS Off
Bluetooth Off
Auto Brightness On
SwiftReply Off
GTalk Updater - status - available

2. Car Audio

Context - State - Bluetooth Connected

Sony Xplod Bluetooth Car Stereo (deck and handset previously paired)

Task(s)
App Menu
Load Navigation
Load Music
Load People
Load Torque (in the event i have my bt odbii dongle connected)

Home Mode (exit task - originally created by another user i just tweaked it for my personal use)
Kill App Navigation
Kill App Music
Kill App People
Kill App Torque
Go Home - go to currently configured home screen

3. OnCall

Context - Event - Phone Offhook
Context - State - Not Docked

Task(s)
OnCall
SwiftReply - reply to sms with courtesy message

OffCall
SwiftReply Off

 

[MMBosstones86]

I've been trying to get a profile setup so that it will turn off mobile data for 9 minutes and turn it on for 4 minutes. Essentially I want tweetdeck, email, facebook to only poll every 15 minutes to try and save battery when the screen is off. Right now I have one profile:

Poller
1. Mobile Data off
2. Wait 9 minutes
3. Mobile Data on
4. Wait 4 minutes
5. Goto 1

Whenever the display is off I enable the Poller profile and when ever the display is on I disable the poller and immediately set Mobile Data on. I feel like I get better battery life, but I'm not sure. I hope there is a more elegant way of getting better battery life with tasker.

honestly i would say you're probably using more data this way. Just have each app sync at specified length of time. Have facebook sync every hour or whatever...or just refresh when you open the app.

no real reason to have everything sync like that. my gmail is pushed right to the phone more or less the same time as my windows client.

Hope it helps

 

[shahulvm]

Settings pls

Hi All,

Hope the experts can help...[[In view of saving battery]]

In tasker, I have created two profiles

i. 'Display On' turn-on 'Mobile Data'
ii. 'Display-off' turn-off 'Mobile Data'
iii. 'HeadSet-plugged' in turn-on 'Mobile Data' - to help in stream music.

Is there anyway I can put in a check to see if skype application is active and display is off then the mobile data to be on, as I dont want the skype call to be disconnected.

Finally, whats the difference is disabling the data using 'Mobile Data off' vs 'Mobile Data APN' using APNDROID. I am in GSM and mobile data off works fine.

Thanks.

 

[ccrape]

Hi All,

Hope the experts can help...[[In view of saving battery]]

In tasker, I have created two profiles

i. 'Display On' turn-on 'Mobile Data'
ii. 'Display-off' turn-off 'Mobile Data'
iii. 'HeadSet-plugged' in turn-on 'Mobile Data' - to help in stream music.

Is there anyway I can put in a check to see if skype application is active and display is off then the mobile data to be on, as I dont want the skype call to be disconnected.

Finally, whats the difference is disabling the data using 'Mobile Data off' vs 'Mobile Data APN' using APNDROID. I am in GSM and mobile data off works fine.

Thanks.

You may be able to use the condition or variables plugin(s) to accomplish what you're trying to do.

 

[sheepforwheat]

Tasker is my *****

I posted this on the nexus one forum initially, but i figured i would post this here too since I have a droid incedible... This is what I make tasker do for me:

WIGITS:
1. Find Car / Park Car widget. This launches a task that either saves the GPS coordinates of where I parked my car, or gives me directions to find my car. The icon and label are switched depending on the state.
2. Wifi Toggle
3. GPS toggle
4. Airplane mode toggle
5. Directions list. Pops up a menu of my frequently visited locations (home, work, in-laws, jimmy john's, etc)
6. Flashlight toggle. This will trigger the LED lights on or off to use as a flashlight.
7. turn on GPS automatically when i click on nav, maps, places. toggle GPS widget
8. when i click on camera icon, popup a menu to take photo, video or open gallery

HOME profile:
1. When i get near my home (cell near), turn on my wifi
2. When i get home (wifi SSID name), turn off GPS, toggle GPS and Car Park/Find widgets

CAR profile:
1. If i'm in my car and charging, turn on GPS, turn off keyguard, keep screen on, display rotation off, media volume all the way, speakerphone on.
2. When i leave my car, kill maps & navigation. save GPS coordinates and toggle Car Park/Find widget. reset display timeout, turn off GPS, keyguard back on, speakerphone off

WORK profile:
Note: At my job, i can get in any time between 6am and 9:30am, and i must work 8.5 hours a day. So my daily schedule shifts around depending when i get in.

1. When i am near my work (cell near) and not in my car (INCAR variable) set the ATWORK variable to true.
2. if ATWORK variable is set to true, it's not a federal holiday, and is mon-fri, between 6am-6pm: set FIRSTARRIVE to 1 if it's not set, enter silent mode, media & alarm vol to 0, wifi off, wifi widget toggle
3. When ATWORK is set to true, wait 5 seconds (to let step 2 finish), if FIRSTARRIVE==1, set SIGNIN to %TIME. Perform a task that rounds the time to the nearest interval of 5 (6:00, 6:05, 6:10, 6:15 etc.) and then formats the time to look like "6:00am", call this variable INTIME. Call a task that calculates the time i should leave based on when i came in, call this variable OUTTIME. then put a notification up called "Work Arrival" that displays these times. increment FIRSTARRIVE.
4. When i click on the Work Arrival notification, it takes me to the alarm clock app that i use to set an alarm for when to leave for the day. (i will automate this step when Tasker provides alarm setting functionality)
5. At lunchtime, I have a task go an check the weather at accuweather, figure out if it's raining, and then pop up an alarm telling me that it's time for lunch, the temperature outside and whether i should take an umbrella or not. (i don't have windows at my desk).

SLEEPING:
1. from 10-11pm put the phone on vibrate. from 11-12am, put the phone on silent, from 12-5:30am put the phone in airplane mode. Every 30 minutes from 12-5:30 toggle airplane mode.
2. if someone important calls me from 10-12, i have the phone automatically turn up the volume in case i am asleep.
3. from 12-5:30 if someone important calls me, the 30 minute check will pick it up and notify me that i missed an emergency call.
4. if i am not at work in the morning 5:30-9:30 it puts the phone on vibrate, unless i get a phone call, at which it will turn the ringer on, and turn it back off after the call

EVENTS:
1. I volunteer at my church and other organizations and i don't want my phone to make noises during those events, so i have it check my calendar for those events, and put the phone in silent mode vibrate

MUSIC:
1. when i plug in headphones, it loads my music player of choice (playerpro). if i'm in the car media volume all the way up (i use an aux input in my car to play music) if i'm at home or at work, i'm probably using headphones, so set the media volume to halfway. Automatically play a song
2. when i unplug the headphones, stop music playback, kill playerpro (doesn't seem to work), media volume to 0 if i'm at work, clear my scrobbling notification because sometimes it gets stuck and i can't clear it.

BATTERY:
1. when the phone is charging turn off the keyguard, and keep the screen on
2. when the battery is fully charged, notify me

AUTO-SPEAKERPHONE:
1. When i am on a phone call, if i set the phone down face up, it goes into speakerphone mode if i'm not at work

VOICE INPUT:
1. when i am entering voice input, it turns the media volume down and then back up when done entering.

 

[jackattack]

Hi All,

Hope the experts can help...[[In view of saving battery]]

In tasker, I have created two profiles

i. 'Display On' turn-on 'Mobile Data'
ii. 'Display-off' turn-off 'Mobile Data'
iii. 'HeadSet-plugged' in turn-on 'Mobile Data' - to help in stream music.

Is there anyway I can put in a check to see if skype application is active and display is off then the mobile data to be on, as I dont want the skype call to be disconnected.

Finally, whats the difference is disabling the data using 'Mobile Data off' vs 'Mobile Data APN' using APNDROID. I am in GSM and mobile data off works fine.

Thanks.

I would add a VariableSet in any profile that you want to override the screen off/data off profile. Something like "%DATAHOLD". Set up a profile that sets %DATAHOLD to 1 when Skype opens with an exit task to clear that variable. In the Display-off profile, where you set data off, check "if" and require %DATAHOLD to "not match" 1.

That way when you open Skype, it sets the variable to 1, which will cause your display-off profile not to turn off data.

 

[endipott]

WORK profile:
Note: At my job, i can get in any time between 6am and 9:30am, and i must work 8.5 hours a day. So my daily schedule shifts around depending when i get in.

1. When i am near my work (cell near) and not in my car (INCAR variable) set the ATWORK variable to true.
2. if ATWORK variable is set to true, it's not a federal holiday, and is mon-fri, between 6am-6pm: set FIRSTARRIVE to 1 if it's not set, enter silent mode, media & alarm vol to 0, wifi off, wifi widget toggle
3. When ATWORK is set to true, wait 5 seconds (to let step 2 finish), if FIRSTARRIVE==1, set SIGNIN to %TIME. Perform a task that rounds the time to the nearest interval of 5 (6:00, 6:05, 6:10, 6:15 etc.) and then formats the time to look like "6:00am", call this variable INTIME. Call a task that calculates the time i should leave based on when i came in, call this variable OUTTIME. then put a notification up called "Work Arrival" that displays these times. increment FIRSTARRIVE.
4. When i click on the Work Arrival notification, it takes me to the alarm clock app that i use to set an alarm for when to leave for the day. (i will automate this step when Tasker provides alarm setting functionality)

i find this implementation to be really inventive and useful. nice work.

been using tasker for two weeks now, and aside from the popular usage scenarios, the best i can contribute right now is:

on headset plugged-in, i do the usual (music-app menu, volume adjust), but i also invoke event contexts (received.txt and phone.ringing) with "say" tasks to read sms contents and announce incoming callers. i find this really useful, especially for when i'm on the bike.

i'm trying now to work out an elegant, battery-sensitive method to activate a repeating missed-call notification ONLY when i'm actually not there (i.e.: NOT when i've ignored the call). the only way i can think of thus far is to continuously monitor orientation changes and assume that if it's daytime and orientation has not shifted for, say, 20+ minutes and the device is not face-down, i probably accidentally left it in the other room and could therefore use a repeating notification of any missed calls.

i'm not sure if this will work as i'm envisioning it. but seriously, how great is this app? i'm fully all-aboard the tasker-train. choo, choo.

oh also: anyone know which devices support which of the starred (disabled) actions? there are circumstances under which i'd be interested in altering my lock-screen code, but my HEROC CM6.1 apparently does not support this. are these tasks accessible on any of your devices?

 

[schollianmj]

here is the simple profile that I use to get it to auto launce the car home app oonce im in my car, it is synced with my cars BT and i plug in my charging cord...

Just unzip the rar and do what ever it is you have to do to play with it....

 

[ejkeebler]

I posted this on the nexus one forum initially, but i figured i would post this here too since I have a droid incedible... This is what I make tasker do for me:

WIGITS:
1. Find Car / Park Car widget. This launches a task that either saves the GPS coordinates of where I parked my car, or gives me directions to find my car. The icon and label are switched depending on the state.

I tried this and failed miserably....first it wouldn't get the GPS location, then when I finally got that working I setup some if/then's and somehow I keep turning the gps on/off when I shouldn't and sometimes it still doesn't get the GPS coordinates

5. Directions list. Pops up a menu of my frequently visited locations (home, work, in-laws, jimmy john's, etc)

This would be AWESOME if it could grab the list from google.com/bookmarks

HOME profile:
1. When i get near my home (cell near), turn on my wifi

Not sure this is working either, I tried it last night, but it seemed to be rather inaccurate, I onlyfound 2 towers in my area, but the profiles kept activating and deactivating.

SLEEPING:
1. from 10-11pm put the phone on vibrate. from 11-12am, put the phone on silent, from 12-5:30am put the phone in airplane mode. Every 30 minutes from 12-5:30 toggle airplane mode.
2. if someone important calls me from 10-12, i have the phone automatically turn up the volume in case i am asleep.
3. from 12-5:30 if someone important calls me, the 30 minute check will pick it up and notify me that i missed an emergency call.

MUSIC:
1. when i plug in headphones, it loads my music player of choice (playerpro). if i'm in the car media volume all the way up (i use an aux input in my car to play music) if i'm at home or at work, i'm probably using headphones, so set the media volume to halfway. Automatically play a song
2. when i unplug the headphones, stop music playback, kill playerpro (doesn't seem to work), media volume to 0 if i'm at work, clear my scrobbling notification because sometimes it gets stuck and i can't clear it.

I'm going to be trying a few of these steps, thanks for the idea!


VOICE INPUT:
1. when i am entering voice input, it turns the media volume down and then back up when done entering.

Is the for a time when you might be listening to music or playing a game and decide to do a voice search? And it happens automatically?

Thanks for some great idea, hopefully I can get some of them working!

 

[pickthecrowdup]

Sorry if this has been discussed, I didn't find it with search...

Can anyone figure out how to set tasker to stop charging when @ 99% and start again at, like, 95% or something.. Kind of like a bump charge solution. I've read that HTC phones stop charging after reaching 100% and that is why you drop drastically after the first half an hour in the morning. Or stop at 99% and start again 30 minutes before i leave for work?

 

[sheepforwheat]

I don't think there is a way. best solution would be to buy a power plug that works on a timer. like you might use for christmas lights

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[rmoney]

Thats not exactly how HTC phones charge, and its better for your phone to just let it do its thing when charging.



Has anyone got a random wallpaper profile to work? Mine only works when I test it and not at the time context that I set for it. I have it set so that between 5:30am and 6am, it'll set a random variable and pick a wallpaper based on that random number. The random and selection part works, just it never does it on its between those times. Each time I have to go into Tasker and hit the test button for it to run.