Tasker Profiles

[xiaosong]

Hi everyone,

I've just started to use Tasker a bit more and I was hoping we could start a Tasker thread here in the Galaxy Nexus forum to share which Tasker profiles we have set up and help each other out. I am only scratching the surface of this powerful program and I want to learn more about it. If people want, we could probably upload our profiles here for each other to use.

So far, I have two profiles set up under Tasker and two tasks set up that are triggered by NFC task launcher.
1) Switch to airplane mode with no cell service
When my phone has no service, it waits 2 mins and if I still have no service, it will switch my phone to airplane mode. It will then wait 30 mins and if airplane mode is on, it will switch it off so my phone can recheck for service.

2) Turn off pattern lock when connected to home wifi
This requires you to be rooted, have busybox and secure settings installed (both apps are free). Basically, when I am connected to my home wifi and have unlocked my phone using pattern lock for the first time, it will switch off the pattern lock requirement so I can just swipe to unlock. As soon as I leave my wifi network, it reenables the pattern lock.

3) Night mode task - launched with NFC tag on bedside table using NFC task launcher
Turns up alarm volume, turns notification light off, turns down ringer, turns off vibrate, turns on auto brightness and turns off display rotation

4) Day mode task - launched with NFC tag on counter
Turns on notification light, turns up ringer, turns on vibrate, turns off auto brightness, turns on display rotation

What other taskers profiles are people using? Please share. Thanks!

[hillwoman]

I use the time settings to change my volume settings when I am at work and when I leave.

When my phone hooks up to my car bluetooth, I have it send an automatic SMS to anybody who texts me while I'm in the car telling them that I am driving and will respond when I am done.

I have two responses to two different text messages, one to find my phone (it will play a song at the loudest setting) and the other will send me a map to where it is in case I ever loose it.

I have it set my wallpaper to something bright when the phone is on silent (I sometimes don't notice the little silent indicator in the menu bar).

I have it set to go to silent mode when I am in a certain type of meeting. It gets that from the way I name my calendar events.

When I was sick, I had it send me a pop up message with a special ringtone every five hours reminding me to take my antibiotic.

Oh and before the nexus when you could separate ringtones from notifications, I used to have it send an SMS to anybody who sent me a text after 11pm that stated I was sleeping and if it was an emergency to call. (Since the ringer was loud and the notifications were silent after 11pm)

[xiaosong]

Originally Posted by hillwoman

I have it set to go to silent mode when I am in a certain type of meeting. It gets that from the way I name my calendar events.

Oh and before the nexus when you could separate ringtones from notifications, I used to have it send an SMS to anybody who sent me a text after 11pm that stated I was sleeping and if it was an emergency to call. (Since the ringer was loud and the notifications were silent after 11pm)

I like your ideas, especially these two.

How did you set it for the calendar events? Did you have to name your calendar events a certain way or can you set it by a specific google calendar?

I hope google decides to separate the notifications from the ringtones in the future. However, in the meantime, what my friend does is change his notifications to silent at night and then back to the regular ringtone in the morning. That is a decent workaround in the meantime.

[hillwoman]

For the silent calendar event. I have tasker look on my calendar (you can specify which calendar) for any event titled "SILENT_TITLE" and I always name the meetings I want to be silent to "SILENT_TITLE" I haven't tried, but I'm guessing that you could make any event on a certain calendar trigger a silent action. So in theory you could set up a separate calendar for just silent events.

It looks like you can pick certain variables as well such as location, description and availability. So those three items can trigger a silent event as well.

[joncat84]

I recently started using tasker and love it so far. I have a few simple profiles.

Wifi on, turns wifi on when i am at my house by using the cell towers around my house to know where i am.

Wifi off, opposite as above for when i leave my house.

Upside down vibrate, when i put my phone down flat with the screen down it puts my phone into vibrate mode and does a quick vibrate to let me know its enabled. This is great for meetings cause i can do it so quickly.

Silence sms, due to work i constantly get automatic texts from a specific number that gives me info that i dont need right away. This profile just silences that number when i recieve texts from it.

What i am trying to create but dont know if it can be done is have a profile take a front facing picture when someone guesses my pattern lock wrong. Does anybody know if its possible?

[mca312]

I'm using Tasker to simulate a car dock. When it reads the NFC tag, and has power it will launch either navigation or pandora (depending on orientation)

One to keep the screen on when plugged in at home (NFC tag)

When it detects my work wifi, turns off sound (I like the idea of from joncat84 to turn it upside down for vibrate mode too)

[turdbogls]

i only have a few.
turns wifi on and changes volume when i am at home.

turns on BT when i am at work and adjusts the volume.

headset plugged in, gives me a pop up of all my media apps

11pm it turns my brightness all the way down, silences all phone calls and notifications, alarm volume up

turns on GPS when i enter navigation, maps, places ect.

and thats it. it is a seriously powerful tool, that i have just started to scratch the surface with. hope to get into some more stuff once i have time to fiddle with it more.

[mr2nv]

Originally Posted by joncat84

I recently started using tasker and love it so far. I have a few simple profiles.

Upside down vibrate, when i put my phone down flat with the screen down it puts my phone into vibrate mode and does a quick vibrate to let me know its enabled. This is great for meetings cause i can do it so quickly.

How did you accomplish this? I would like to have the phone switch to speaker phone when on a call and putting the phone face down. I had this on the rezound and it was pretty cool.

How does the phone know the difference between putting it face down and putting it against your face?

[ScooberJake]

Originally Posted by turdbogls

iturns on GPS when i enter navigation, maps, places ect.

Oh yeah, I need to set that one up. I hate having to do it manually but when I am bothered by it I am too busy to fix it.

Here are a few of mine:

Work
Contexts: Mon-Fri 7:00-19:00, Network location, Wifi Near
Settings: Silent, Wifi off, GPS off, Media silent, log arrival time in variable, notification (so I know work settings are effective)

Home
Contexts: Network location, Wifi Near
Settings: Wifi on, GPS off, Ringer max, vibrate on, Media volume 5, display timeout 3 mins

In Car
Contexts: Power any, NOT at home, NOT at work
Settings: Wifi off, GPS on, vibrate off, ringer max, speakerphone on, display timeout 3 mins, car mode on

Asleep
Contexts: 22:00-7:00, power any, NOT in car
Settings: silent

Text Wife for Pick Up (to let my wife know I am about to pick her up from work)
Contexts: GPS location, in car, M-F 16:00-19:00
Settings: auto text message

Text Received in Car
Contexts: in car, text received
Settings: auto response from Jake's Android with current speed and message that I will text back later

Similar stuff for Church (location and time based), weekly text reminder for group meeting at my house, etc. I use a lot of variable values not included here mostly just to flag when a state is active. Helps for setting other profiles and for debugging to know when Tasker is doing things.

My main problems so far are:

a) When I get in my car it usually takes about 10 minutes to register that I have left work. I have tried doing more frequent Wifi scans but it doesn't seem to register. I wonder if this has to do with the fact that I use a network location as well as wifi near. Perhaps it takes both to trigger the profile, but I have to lose both to exit the profile? Anyone know?

b) When Tasker does register that I am in car mode, the screen never times out, always stays on. In my car profile I set the screen timeout to 2 minutes, and I have the car mode app (3rd party, AFAIK there isn't a stock one in ICS?) set to not change screen timeout. Maybe I should just launch the car mode app instead of switching on car mode in Android settings? Or use NFC?

[joncat84]

Originally Posted by mr2nv

How did you accomplish this? I would like to have the phone switch to speaker phone when on a call and putting the phone face down. I had this on the rezound and it was pretty cool.

How does the phone know the difference between putting it face down and putting it against your face?

Create a new profile and hit state, then sensor, then orientation face down. Then create your task for vibrating your phone and switching to silent. Im trying to create one for speakerphone but you can mess around with the above to get yours working. Mine and yours might interfere with eachother though.

Also when your phone is glass down its a different position then when youre on the phone. Most people are aware when they place the phone down on its glass so its great for rules.