I want to record a macro to setup my GPS apps without hitting multiple buttons. Anything out there to use?
Tasker in the marketplace can automate typical function (ie, power gps on/off when app launches) but it cannot record macros to manipulate the functions of a specific app. I've never heard of anything like that.
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Tasker in the marketplace can automate typical function (ie, power gps on/off when app launches) but it cannot record macros to manipulate the functions of a specific app. I've never heard of anything like that.
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I was ready to buy tasker but wanted to wait until I heard something one way or another on this thread. Thanks for the heads up.
If you're on the fence about tasker there is a 7 day trial apk from the dev's website
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
It's absolutely worth it in my opinion.
Check out this thread for instructions on how to lock the gtab when a case is closed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1155144
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I've been using Llama for a while and really like it. Have been thinking about using Tasker instead and would like to ask people with experience of both:
What about Tasker makes it worthwhile to spend the $5 instead of using the free Llama?
I'd like to be convinced Descriptions of cool uses of Tasker that Llama is incapable of welcome
I use them both but prefer Tasker because of SMS actions. However, SMS integration is on Llama's to-do list.
So far I have tried ALL auto profile apps -- Locale I only had for 15 minutes bc I have tasker and it uses the locale plugins.
Tasker was hard as hell to get the hang of. But once it "clicked" , I was downright ASTOUNDED by what it can do.
I just got Llama, and I like it a lot...much easier than tasker. Some thigns I like better -- enter vs leaving a location etc. However, Tasker is MUCH more powerful and the gui - while difficult to use - is much more clear to see and operate.
If I had to only pick one ---- TASKER. While Llama has its advantages, tasker can do alot more. This also means much more room to screw something up. LOL.
Tasker is worth the money ...even if you end up not using it, just to know that your phone will to anything the way YOU WANT when YOU WANT how YOU WANT.
**** TASKER TIP*****
A profile is a list of "if's" - conditions to kick of a task.
A task is a list of actions -- I thought each needed many tasks but no --- a task itself has the many actions in it.
Smart bc then you can add or swap tasks as need be without having to remake them.
Also, I value tasker's SMS functions and If, then, Goto, else if etc action statements allowing loops etc.
I've just started using Llama myself after using Tasker for about a year. Llama is definitely more user-friendly in terms of building events and profiles. Tasker's learning curve is very steep by comparison.
However one advantage that I've found Tasker to have over Llama is that Tasker is a lot more aggressive when it comes to implementing its actions. When a condition is satisfied for a Tasker event, the actions kick in immediately. Whereas for Llama it can take a few minutes for it to even realise that a condition has occurred.
I've also found that some of Llama's actions don't always work properly, such as setting screen timeouts or brightness. For example, setting screen timeout to "Never" while on the browser only changes it to 1 minute. Or when a sound profile kicks in, looking into the audio settings shows that the volume hasn't actually been changed.
Of course Llama is free and you can't beat that in value for money. However Tasker is definitely more powerful and robust. There are pros and cons to each but if I had to pick I'd go with Tasker.
tl;dr - Llama is free and easy to use but doesn't always work. Tasker costs money and is complicated to learn but powerful and always works.
What about Actions Lite (free, 'Actions Pro' with cost) vs. Llama or Tasker? Any comment will be welcomed.
I'm playing for several days now with Llama and it is really flexible and supports and/or operations, queued events and many abilities that can help solve complex cases like 'leaving my home - start polling BT - if connected: I'm driving - set Driving profile, if not connected: set outdoor profile' etc. On the other hand its division between 'profile' (only sound related settings) and 'action' (consequence of events) is a bit annoying...
One of the most used features (for me...) is the 'unlock screen' (for driving and at home) but none of the SW I have tested (such as 'profiling' ones or designated ones) works well on my HTC One X, ICS, stock ROM or Charmeleon ROM (PKMN). Any suggestions?
I guess it depends on what kind of use you are going to do, i think llama is basic, just enough to silent your phone at home... But if you want to do something more complicated you should try tasker...
I use Tasker.This is the best apps for customize all system.I tryed Llama to,but not the same.
How about footprint? Tasker uses 18Mb ram. What's Llama's footprint?
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How about footprint? Tasker uses 18Mb ram. What's Llama's footprint?
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Llama is currently using 3.38MB on my phone.
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Llama is currently using 3.38MB on my phone.
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My Llama is running at just under 10MB
My Llama runs under 10MB as well.
I use Tasker. Best app.
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I've been using Llama for a while and really like it. Have been thinking about using Tasker instead and would like to ask people with experience of both:
What about Tasker makes it worthwhile to spend the $5 instead of using the free Llama?
I'd like to be convinced Descriptions of cool uses of Tasker that Llama is incapable of welcome
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probably cant turn off your keyguard on a certain wifi network if you dont use tasker
Having used both Tasker and Llama extensively (I would say 50 to 100 hours in each programming stuff) and having had both running my stuff at different time for over a year, I'd summarise them as follows:
Llama:
+ free
+ easy to learn
- functions a little limited although sufficient for most
Tasker
+ extremely powerful, far more functions
+ can export to make stand-alone apps
- steep learning curve
Summary/Advise:
If you're looking into Android automation, start with Llama to see can you do what you want. If you can't do it with Llama, then and only then move onto Tasker.
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probably cant turn off your keyguard on a certain wifi network if you dont use tasker
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You can do this with Llama, too.
oh you can? sorry i dont use llama so i didnt know for sure
Any one knows how to copy llama cell locations and use it in Tasker.. ?
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Any one knows how to copy llama cell locations and use it in Tasker.. ?
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I'd love to know how to do this too.
Alternatively, has anyone been able to send Android intents between the two and have them work together? This would be quite useful in my opinion.
is it possible to add conditions with Tasker?
I have been using Llama for months now and I love it. But it is true, sometimes, the actions don't run immediately after a condition is met.
I wanted to try Tasker, what I did. It is far more difficult to use!
Also, I don't know how to/if it is possible to set several condition to fire an action, what is easy to do with Llama.
For example, I want my phone to ring instead of vibrate when I am home between 9am and 11pm. So there are actually 2 conditions : time and location.
How do you do that with Tasker?
Also, is there a way to create a condition when you leave a location (which can also be done with Llama)
Thanks for your answers
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For example, I want my phone to ring instead of vibrate when I am home between 9am and 11pm. So there are actually 2 conditions : time and location.
How do you do that with Tasker?
Also, is there a way to create a condition when you leave a location (which can also be done with Llama)
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Both are doable in Tasker. A context in Tasker can have more than one condition. One condition for a given context can be a time-based condition (say, between 9am and 11pm), and the other can be based on location. Just add more than one condition to a given context.
As for entering and leaving a location, you can do that with an enter and exit condition for a given Tasker context.
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Didn't want to post this in the dev section but this app seems extremely useful and I was curious if there was any way of extracting it for use on other android devices?
That would be very darn useful for everyone.
I'm using tasker . . . you can do alot of creative stuff with it, but it is kinda complicated and costs ~$6
mel493 said:
I'm using tasker . . . you can do alot of creative stuff with it, but it is kinda complicated and costs ~$6
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I have tasker as well but in general I dont find it super user friendly. From the looks of it Smart Action could replace tasker as well as juice defender which I also use.
I've already made one for home, work and when I go to bed. It seems pretty user friendly to me. Excellent app.
Heh, even if someone extracts it, it needs Blur libraries and frameworks, too.
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Heh, even if someone extracts it, it needs Blur libraries and frameworks, too.
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I've seen harder things get ported on xda just needs willing developers
I haven't really had a look at this Smart Action App yet as I still haven't received my microsim. I was wondering how sophisticated it is?
Is it possible to have it read sms when connected to bluetooth, for example? I attempted this with Tasker on my Defy with no success - I don't think Tasker liked MIUI very much
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I haven't really had a look at this Smart Action App yet as I still haven't received my microsim. I was wondering how sophisticated it is?
Is it possible to have it read sms when connected to bluetooth, for example? I attempted this with Tasker on my Defy with no success - I don't think Tasker liked MIUI very much
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Tasker does many things but in terms of doing things you need to know the proper terms for the various variables etc for what you want to do which isnt too simple
Here are some premade ones you can download or make but none for what you wanted
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index
As an example of how complicated it can get with tasker is the following. How to make a battery full notification.As you can see the app lets you do allot but is not super user friendly. Smart Action may not be able to do all that tasker is able to but may be able to do most and may be more user friendly
click New and select Event
select event category Power and event Battery Full
click Done
click + in the bottom left to add an action
select category Alert and action Notify (Sound)
type Battery Full! in the Title field
click Done
To avoid getting a repeat notification within 30 minutes, we add a cooldown:
Click on the profile and select Profile Properties
Slide the Cooldown Time slider to the far right
Click Done
Alternative solution to avoid repeat notifications (added by b00ky)
Set a variable such as "%BFN" to 0 anytime you plug in your phone
Edit the "Notify Sound" task to only run "If %BFN < 0"
Add a new task "Tasker » Variable Set » %BFN to 1"
This has worked for me and makes sure you only get notified ONCE while it is plugged in as opposed to after 30 minutes of cooldown.
I'm new to this so I apologize if this is not a good way to do this, but it works for me.
An alternative to the alternative to avoid repeat notifications. If you tend to leave plugged in for long durations, 30 minute cool down may not do it for you. The below gives you a one time notification that your battery is full, and wont repeat until you unplug/replug back in. phonedude
Profile - Battery 100%
Event - Battery Full
Enter task -
1. Play your sound
2. Set Profile Status {Battery 100%} to Off
Exit task-
n.a.
Profile - Plugged In
State - Power (Source = Any)
Enter task -
1. Profile Status {Battery 100%} to On
Exit task-
1. Profile Status {Battery 100%} to Off
Thanks for that fidorulz! Much appreciated. I notice on that site that the guy tried to get the read SMS to work and failed, tried again and got it working but doesn't know how!
http://tasker.wikidot.com/readsmswhileincardock
I found a walk through on here that would not work either and I assumed it was because of MIUI, as Tasker didn't register any SMS being received. It seems that the %SMSRF and %SMSRB variables only get initialised when an SMS is received.
I will patiently wait for tmobile and the royal mail to get their fingers out and deliver my microsim and I will give it another go
I use "Setting Profiles" pretty simple and powerful, a lot easier to use than tasker (although not quite as powerful in the nitty-gritty) but definitely hits the 80/20 rule. It costs, but I believe there is a free version to try out the functionality and see how you like it.
I got my nfc tags in today to play with. Have no problem writing to them, and NFC Task Switcher works great. My example use case is having the volume go down at my bedside.
I use Tasker extensively, so maybe I'm spoiled:
My first question is, is there any way to trigger an 'exit' or 'undo' task when your phone leaves the vicinity of the tag? Really hate to require two tags to achieve that level of automation. By reading a bit on the Play Store reviews area, I'm guessing this isn't possible, and I'll need to change the way I think about these.
2nd question: Is there any way nfc tags can be read and trigger an event while the phone is locked? Also seems kinda pointless to have to unlock before touching the tag.
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I got my nfc tags in today to play with. Have no problem writing to them, and NFC Task Switcher works great. My example use case is having the volume go down at my bedside.
I use Tasker extensively, so maybe I'm spoiled:
My first question is, is there any way to trigger an 'exit' or 'undo' task when your phone leaves the vicinity of the tag? Really hate to require two tags to achieve that level of automation. By reading a bit on the Play Store reviews area, I'm guessing this isn't possible, and I'll need to change the way I think about these.
2nd question: Is there any way nfc tags can be read and trigger an event while the phone is locked? Also seems kinda pointless to have to unlock before touching the tag.
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1: You can just create a switch. Tap once, do (tasks). Tap again, undo (tasks).
2: Not that I know of right now but I'm sure our wonderful developers will figure something out!
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Ok everybody look at this video and I think we should all decipher this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjTj0ymhbBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This guy of course WILL NOT explain step by step to get it to work the way he did.
Maybe we all can give each other pointers?
We know he's using tasker and auto voice perhaps we all can help figure this out step by step ?
That's a nice impressive setup....
Lets figure out how to do this.
Wow no one is interested eh? Lol
You first need a decent familiarity with Tasker, and then:
- a Z-wave/Zigbee controller, such as the Vera Lite
- a few Z-wave switches
- AutoVoice plugin for Tasker to parse your input and connect them to tasks/shortcuts that toggle the switches.
That's the easy part. He has XMBC on his home theater system and uses Yatse to access that. Read more about how he got this working from the Reddit he posted it on as well as at Pocketables http://goo.gl/AdmEG.
I'm waiting on the Almond+ router before I jump into this since most home automation controllers are $$$.
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You first need a decent familiarity with Tasker, and then:
- a Z-wave/Zigbee controller, such as the Vera Lite
- a few Z-wave switches
- AutoVoice plugin for Tasker to parse your input and connect them to tasks/shortcuts that toggle the switches.
That's the easy part. He has XMBC on his home theater system and uses Yatse to access that. Read more about how he got this working from the Reddit he posted it on as well as at Pocketables http://goo.gl/AdmEG.
I'm waiting on the Almond+ router before I jump into this since most home automation controllers are $$$.
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I was playing with tasker yesterday can u confirm tasker work with HTC one?
Somehow the app kept saying it doesn't have the profile when it does?
This gentleman that posted this is probably not new to the AV scene and programming aspects either. I'm sure there's "more than meets the eye" than what is being shown; he probably spent a lot of time researching before getting the Eureka moment of tying it all together. Kudos to this and other DIY'ers.
I'm sure if we make effort we can figure it out.. AV guys unite!
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What I don't get from what I've read is for Z-Wave you need a controller (e.g. Vera Lite) and then you can tie all the devices together, but I don't see anything similar for ZigBee, hows do you get ZigBee devices to talk to each other? I know some stuff will be achievable through tasker but with Vera Lite (or other Z-Wave controllers) you can do everything through the Controller interface.
Is Tasker able to do this?
I'm just delving into Tasker from Llama (not as many features as I'd like), so I'm not yet at the point where I know how to set these up in Tasker to see if it has the ability to do so.
Thanks in advance for a clue...........
Yes.
You will want to create widgets to trigger the profiles, or use something like nfc task launcher and tags, or both.
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Yes.
You will want to create widgets to trigger the profiles, or use something like nfc task launcher and tags, or both.
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I was going to have it launch via Location and time constraints. If I ever figure out how to get that far. Tasker is a bit daunting.
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I was going to have it launch via Location and time constraints. If I ever figure out how to get that far. Tasker is a bit daunting.
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Hang in there. Tasker gets easier the more you use it. It can be daunting to start. The Google Groups Tasker forum is the best place to get specific answers/how to's.
You can definitely have tasker automate changing volume profiles (and many other things) based on location, but you probably don't want to use GPS (it would have to continually check your gps which is a batter drainer). When it comes to location without GPS (ie Cell Signals), llama is actually a little better than tasker at that one specific thing. Since you can trigger a tasker task with llama, I'd suggest using llama to trigger based on location and then build the time constraints and things into Tasker into the Task.
To get your started, your first several task will have time IF states.
Task 1: Go to #4 IF between certain times
Task 2: Go to #8 If between certain times
etc.
With tasker there are usually several different ways to accomplish the same thing - that's where the Google Group comes in handy.
If you're not happy with the way location triggers profiles, then maybe give NFC Tags a try.
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Hang in there. Tasker gets easier the more you use it. It can be daunting to start. The Google Groups Tasker forum is the best place to get specific answers/how to's.
You can definitely have tasker automate changing volume profiles (and many other things) based on location, but you probably don't want to use GPS (it would have to continually check your gps which is a batter drainer). When it comes to location without GPS (ie Cell Signals), llama is actually a little better than tasker at that one specific thing. Since you can trigger a tasker task with llama, I'd suggest using llama to trigger based on location and then build the time constraints and things into Tasker into the Task.
To get your started, your first several task will have time IF states.
Task 1: Go to #4 IF between certain times
Task 2: Go to #8 If between certain times
etc.
With tasker there are usually several different ways to accomplish the same thing - that's where the Google Group comes in handy.
If you're not happy with the way location triggers profiles, then maybe give NFC Tags a try.
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I have gotten some profiles and tasks accomplished and do agree that Llama handles locations MUCH better than Tasker does. I did not know that Llama would read Tasker tasks, so I may give that a go. I really didn't want both apps, tho, because then both will have to run.
hollywoodfrodo said:
Hang in there. Tasker gets easier the more you use it. It can be daunting to start. The Google Groups Tasker forum is the best place to get specific answers/how to's.
You can definitely have tasker automate changing volume profiles (and many other things) based on location, but you probably don't want to use GPS (it would have to continually check your gps which is a batter drainer). When it comes to location without GPS (ie Cell Signals), llama is actually a little better than tasker at that one specific thing. Since you can trigger a tasker task with llama, I'd suggest using llama to trigger based on location and then build the time constraints and things into Tasker into the Task.
To get your started, your first several task will have time IF states.
Task 1: Go to #4 IF between certain times
Task 2: Go to #8 If between certain times
etc.
With tasker there are usually several different ways to accomplish the same thing - that's where the Google Group comes in handy.
If you're not happy with the way location triggers profiles, then maybe give NFC Tags a try.
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I see that you can create apps from Tasker, and I'm assuming that's how you can get it to interface with Llama.
I've done this with a task for home which changes some volume settings, turns off pattern lock, turns off keyguard and turns off GPS, which come from the Secure Settings plugin.
Llama does not execute these tasks even though the app that I made from this task clearly contains them.
Is Llama not able of doing these because they are governed by Secure Settings?
Even though I joined the Tasker Google Group, it seems I cannot post a new topic to ask this question there. *sigh*