[INFO][UPDATED 11/3] What do your NFC tags/tectiles do?

[Necro990]

Ahh fair enough.

I must say that NFC Task Launcher + Tasker make an awesome combination.

Recently programmed a NFC sticker to do the following:

I created a tag that does the following:

->Turns WiFi on
->Waits until I'm connected to my home WiFi connection.
->Sends a WOL packet to my desktop at home
->Wait 20 seconds
->Turn Wifi Off

So when I get home from work I can put my phone down on the tag and my PC will automagically begin booting.

The waiting for the WiFi to connect step needs a little tweaking but otherwise it's working wonderfully well

 

[zen0s]

Ahh fair enough.

I must say that NFC Task Launcher + Tasker make an awesome combination.

Recently programmed a NFC sticker to do the following:

I created a tag that does the following:

->Turns WiFi on
->Waits until I'm connected to my home WiFi connection.
->Sends a WOL packet to my desktop at home
->Wait 20 seconds
->Turn Wifi Off

So when I get home from work I can put my phone down on the tag and my PC will automagically begin booting.

The waiting for the WiFi to connect step needs a little tweaking but otherwise it's working wonderfully well

How do you put delays on nfc?

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[jiggytom]

Ahh fair enough.

I must say that NFC Task Launcher + Tasker make an awesome combination.

Recently programmed a NFC sticker to do the following:

I created a tag that does the following:

->Turns WiFi on
->Waits until I'm connected to my home WiFi connection.
->Sends a WOL packet to my desktop at home
->Wait 20 seconds
->Turn Wifi Off

So when I get home from work I can put my phone down on the tag and my PC will automagically begin booting.

The waiting for the WiFi to connect step needs a little tweaking but otherwise it's working wonderfully well

Why are you turning wifi on/off? You can do this without even being on Wifi..over the data connection. Just need to setup a dyndns account and forward ports on your router (might need a static ARP table setup as well).

 

[Necro990]

How do you put delays on nfc?

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The delays were done using Tasker.

 

[winwiz]

I made a mistake of ordering the Xperia tags. They only hold 4096k of data.

Need the larger tags! I cant even open an app with these xperia tags

 

[alias_neo]

I made a mistake of ordering the Xperia tags. They only hold 4096k of data.

Need the larger tags! I cant even open an app with these xperia tags

Only 4M of data?? Impossible

Also, if you read my earlier post, 4k is the largest size you can get, 1k is the usual large size with standard ones usually only being hundreds of bytes

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[SiNJiN76]

Ahh fair enough.

I must say that NFC Task Launcher + Tasker make an awesome combination.

Recently programmed a NFC sticker to do the following:

I created a tag that does the following:

->Turns WiFi on
->Waits until I'm connected to my home WiFi connection.
->Sends a WOL packet to my desktop at home
->Wait 20 seconds
->Turn Wifi Off

So when I get home from work I can put my phone down on the tag and my PC will automagically begin booting.

The waiting for the WiFi to connect step needs a little tweaking but otherwise it's working wonderfully well

Is there a tutorial on how to use Tasker somewhere here? I've looked at it...but seemed a bit complicated...and nothing I made worked.

 

[EnemyOfGlaDOS]

Is there a tutorial on how to use Tasker somewhere here? I've looked at it...but seemed a bit complicated...and nothing I made worked.

YouTube has a couple

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[Necro990]

Is there a tutorial on how to use Tasker somewhere here? I've looked at it...but seemed a bit complicated...and nothing I made worked.

Have a look here: http://tasker.wikidot.com/step-throughs

 

[winwiz]

Only 4M of data?? Impossible

Also, if you read my earlier post, 4k is the largest size you can get, 1k is the usual large size with standard ones usually only being hundreds of bytes

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oops I mean 4k, lol
I wanted to set a tag to do the following

switch on GPS, switch on auto rotate and then open copilot

but this is too large for the tag and also to set through tasker.

how can I achieve this?

 

[alias_neo]

oops I mean 4k, lol
I wanted to set a tag to do the following

switch on GPS, switch on auto rotate and then open copilot

but this is too large for the tag and also to set through tasker.

how can I achieve this?

That isn't right, cause 4k is huge by nfc standards, and it should take about 6 to 10k tops do perform those few functions with NFC Task Launcher. I'm not sure if Tasker does some really inefficient tag writing cause iv never used it but trust me, you could write an essay in a 4k tag. (~4096 characters). I wrote short essays lol.

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[Necro990]

oops I mean 4k, lol
I wanted to set a tag to do the following

switch on GPS, switch on auto rotate and then open copilot

but this is too large for the tag and also to set through tasker.

how can I achieve this?

You can use NFC Task Launcher to call a Tasker task - that's what I've done with most of the tags that I've played around with.

 

[winwiz]

You can use NFC Task Launcher to call a Tasker task - that's what I've done with most of the tags that I've played around with.

thanks for the help guys

I have it working (partially)

if I get two tags, I can switch on GPS with one and launch CO-Pilot
and then with the other, I can switch off GPS and kill Co-Pilot

I cant however use one tag to do both using NFC Task Launcher and the new switch option

Here is what I am trying to do. Task 1 is showing as 12 bytes yet the total task size is 46 bytes

and this is what task 1 is

any tips please?

 

[eldorado89]

I have one on my desk, if i put my phone on it it will turn of the vibration. My galaxy S3 used to wake up everyone at work ;-).

 

[alias_neo]

thanks for the help guys

I have it working (partially)

if I get two tags, I can switch on GPS with one and launch CO-Pilot
and then with the other, I can switch off GPS and kill Co-Pilot

I cant however use one tag to do both using NFC Task Launcher and the new switch option

Here is what I am trying to do. Task 1 is showing as 12 bytes yet the total task size is 46 bytes

and this is what task 1 is

any tips please?

You don't need tasker for this, NFC Task Launcher already has features to launch an app and toggle gps, use that.

The reason the switcher task is larger is because it needs to wrote code to tell itself its a switch, other devices running NFC Task Launcher can also use these tags.

Get ve it a go, this is how iv done all my tags.

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[winwiz]

You don't need tasker for this, NFC Task Launcher already has features to launch an app and toggle gps, use that.

The reason the switcher task is larger is because it needs to wrote code to tell itself its a switch, other devices running NFC Task Launcher can also use these tags.

Get ve it a go, this is how iv done all my tags.

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I used NFC Task Launcher first buddy, but the reason I switched to tasker is because the task was too large and wouldn't write the tag using NFC TL

I'll try again and will post some screenies....really appreciate your help bud

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I used NFC Task Launcher first buddy, but the reason I switched to tasker is because the task was too large and wouldn't write the tag using NFC TL

I'll try again and will post some screenies....really appreciate your help bud

ok mate here you go.

Wrote a simple task, Switch on GPS and launch Co-pilot

 

[Three6ty]

Hi,
NFC tag launcher tells me I need to root my phone to be able to toggle GPS. Is there a way round this without rooting. Would using tasker sort this out or do I need to root my S3?
Cheers, Rich

 

[EnemyOfGlaDOS]

Hi,
NFC tag launcher tells me I need to root my phone to be able to toggle GPS. Is there a way round this without rooting. Would using tasker sort this out or do I need to root my S3?
Cheers, Rich

You can try straight tasker app. I personally root my phones almost immediately so I'm not restricted with any apps.

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[BrokenPixel]

Hi,
NFC tag launcher tells me I need to root my phone to be able to toggle GPS. Is there a way round this without rooting. Would using tasker sort this out or do I need to root my S3?
Cheers, Rich

Tasker will ask for "Secure settings" and secure settings will ask for root, IF you want to toggle the switch on the GPS.. I think that's how it went for me. I'm rooted so no worries.

And to add to the topic, I'm using about 4 tags, one for the office, home, and 2 for the car I have one for GPS.on, and open Waze and the other for BT.on and starts up my media player, my Bluetooth is a speakerphone and FM transmitter and audiogateway, its all win!!! the home and office tags do pretty much the same turns off bluetooth, gps and turns on wifi and sets the ringer to HI.

and recently I got my hands on an S2 i777 with NFC so I'm gonna stick a tag on the bathroom so my GF can read my messages in the morning, lol


EDITED: typo

 

[Jason71]

A friend at work has some items he is responsible for that people need to borrow. He was sick of not getting them back so he put nfc tags on them. Every time someone wants to borrow one he scans the tag on it which triggers the camera to take a photo of the person then stores the picture with the name of the item and the time it was borrowed. that way he always knows who borrowed what when without having to do anything dull like you know write it down.

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It seems to me that there are 2 ways to use these tags for "tasking" You either
a)put all of the info about the task on the tag (this is what NFC task launcher does)
or
b) you just use the tag as a trigger and have an app ( tasker is best) do the complex stuff.

method a becomes a problem when you want to do complex tasks because it uses a lot of space on the tag. The only reason for doing this is if you want anyone to be able to scan your tag and perform the same actions. Even then they would need the same program that you used otherwise the info on the tag would be garbage. I don't think that this is what most people really want.

What I do is option b program the tag with a simple phrase like "Car Dock" then create a tasker task with as many wierd and wonderful actions as I like e.g. Turn up volume, turn on bluetooth, turn off wifi, launch car home app, increase screen brightness etc. Then, using the Tasker/locale plugin program the tag to trigger the task.

sure to anyone who doesn't have my tasker profile all the tag does is say " car dock" but then I'm not expecting anyone else to use my car dock except me so no problem.

I think method b would actually suit most of what you are trying to do better but it does rely on learning Tasker. Which is not the most user friendly app till you get to know it. Fortunately I have been using it to run my life for about 3 years I have an insane number of profiles to do every thing from change the settings at night, turn off the 3g and wifi when I play angry birds, through to sending low battery warnings to my bluetooth watch so all I needed to do was swap some of my existing triggers like time for NFC ones.