Llama - Who's Using It and Any Good Examples?

[Imposter]

Direct Dial
It has been noted that the stock android shortcut Direct Dial may not work with Llama. I found a solution in the Play Store. The app "Better Direct Dial" by Alexander Bashmakov allows creation of shortcuts (for dialing or texting). Llama can run these as App Shortcuts, and they work to dial a number with no prompting or key press. You don't need to create a shortcut before using it in Llama. Just set an action to Run App Shortcut, Better Direct Dial, and then it will let you set up the shortcut. Anyone who was looking to enable automatic call forwarding, here is your solution.

 

[kurokirasama]

Re: Llamas wanted

To silent only one caller in a specific location, you have to make a llamatone for that person, and then in a profile that includes that location, create the event to change that person's ringtone to the llama tone. I have a post on how to do this on the first page of this thread.

For the second one, use the noisy contacts.

Exactly

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[kurokirasama]

Direct Dial
It has been noted that the stock android shortcut Direct Dial may not work with Llama. I found a solution in the Play Store. The app "Better Direct Dial" by Alexander Bashmakov allows creation of shortcuts (for dialing or texting). Llama can run these as App Shortcuts, and they work to dial a number with no prompting or key press. You don't need to create a shortcut before using it in Llama. Just set an action to Run App Shortcut, Better Direct Dial, and then it will let you set up the shortcut. Anyone who was looking to enable automatic call forwarding, here is your solution.

All is left is to identify caller. So if my wife calls me while I'm driving, I can call her back immediately.

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[Imposter]

I'm looking for a way to get Llama to report the time I arrive home. Some work days, I am paid travel time until I get home, but I sometimes forget to note it. I want Llama to record it somehow. It doesn't matter what app or method is used. As long as there's a note of the time I got home, somewhere in the phone, I can take it from there.
Suggestions?

 

[Imposter]

Solved my latest one. The "Reminder" action puts a message in the notification bar that includes the time. So, perfect.

 

[sdmark]

I have llama setup with certain profiles (home, work, car). Right now I have it when I start Maps or Waze then 100% brightness and activate my car profile.
Is it possible to select a profile for the condition?...so let's say: If <car profile> selected then action <100% brightness>...I see I can select a profile in Action, but not Condition.

 

[bveyndhoven]

Small question:

I use Llama for some time now, but I've got 3 questions:

• Whenever an event tries to turn off Wifi while connected, I just get a debug toast saying Wifi is not switched off because it is still connected. How do I force Wifi to switch off?
• Is there a way to check if an app is active - eighter running in the foreground or in the background? And a trigger for when it is not running anymore?
• I've got 2 Llama shortcuts to lock either silent mode or media mute manually. Is there a way to display a status notification and remove it a few seconds after? I just need to have a text like "Silent mode lock ON" scrolling over my status bar...

I've already set up numerous events

 

[raino]

Is there a way to check if an app is active - eighter running in the foreground or in the background? And a trigger for when it is not running anymore?

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I have screen rotation events where the screen orientation lock gets disabled if certain apps are in the foreground.

Condition:
Active application (when the current app is X) Note: when you're choosing the app, the prompt also presents with you with two options: app started or in foreground, and app stopped or in background.

Actions:
Screen rotation (enable rotation) (or whatever you want to happen)

Queue another event
When the current app is not X-disable rotation (opposite of what you wanted to happen.)

Which is broken down as,

Active Application:
Active application (when the current app is not X) (the opposite of your initial condition, i.e. the stopped or in background option)

Actions:
Screen Rotation (disable rotation) (what you want to happen when current app is not X.)

 

[kurokirasama]

I have llama setup with certain profiles (home, work, car). Right now I have it when I start Maps or Waze then 100% brightness and activate my car profile.
Is it possible to select a profile for the condition?...so let's say: If <car profile> selected then action <100% brightness>...I see I can select a profile in Action, but not Condition.

Hi,

One trick you can do is, when you activate a profile, then create a variable name the profile's name and set it to yes. And even you activate sorbet prime, set it to no. Hence, you can use the variable value as a condition for that you want.

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[meanmrmustard]

I have a Galaxy S2 that I'm trying to set up as follows:

Connect to car's bluetooth
Turn off Wifi
Switch to Car Mode (called Driving Mode on S2)

Disconnect BT
Turn on Wifi
Turn off Car Mode

The wifi part works OK but the phone is not turning on driving mode when connecting to BT. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[kurokirasama]

Small question:

I use Llama for some time now, but I've got 3 questions:

• Whenever an event tries to turn off Wifi while connected, I just get a debug toast saying Wifi is not switched off because it is still connected. How do I force Wifi to switch off?
• Is there a way to check if an app is active - eighter running in the foreground or in the background? And a trigger for when it is not running anymore?
• I've got 2 Llama shortcuts to lock either silent mode or media mute manually. Is there a way to display a status notification and remove it a few seconds after? I just need to have a text like "Silent mode lock ON" scrolling over my status bar...

I've already set up numerous events

Hi,

For the first one, you probably have the "turn wifi of if not connected", you have to change it to "turn wifi off"
For the third one, you can use a reminder.



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[kurokirasama]

I have a Galaxy S2 that I'm trying to set up as follows:

Connect to car's bluetooth
Turn off Wifi
Switch to Car Mode (called Driving Mode on S2)

Disconnect BT
Turn on Wifi
Turn off Car Mode

The wifi part works OK but the phone is not turning on driving mode when connecting to BT. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Are you on stock rom?

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[raino]

I have a question, although this may not be so much about Llama.

I have a "Phone Calls Only" profile created, where all I want is the phone to ring when there's a call incoming. I want to block all other audible and vibrating alerts. The profile blocks audio notifications like a champ, but doesn't block all vibrating alerts (it doesn't block at least K-9 vibrations and ScoreMobile. Maybe more.)

Under this profile, I have the following:

Ringtone volume: 4/7
Notification volume: 0/7
Change ring/vibrate/silent mode: check
Choose vibrate mode: ring

Is there something I'm missing?

 

[meanmrmustard]

I'm on T-Mobile and am using their stock ROM.

I have a new problem as well. When connecting to Bluetooth, I had initially set up Llama to turn the screen on with the dim time set to never. Changed my mind on this and deleted the action but when I now connect to Bluetooth, the screen stays on unless I push the lock screen button on side to turn it off. I've gone into my phone settings and the screen is set to dim after 15 seconds, which it does when I'm not connected to bluetooth. Not sure what's happening but do I need to clear a cache or something Llama to get rid of an old setting that I've deleted?

A bit more info about my previous Car Mode problem, when I hit Test Actions, car mode is enabled and wifi is also disabled as I want. But when I connect to bluetooth, only wifi is disabled and car mode is not kicking in.

Thanks for any help..

 

[bveyndhoven]

Hi Raino,

I've got that condition setup running for a while now. But unfortunately it's not the thing I've been looking for (or at least not completely).

In case of my MP3 player, I could use Music Playback. But about Google Mpas or Waze: I've got a variable set indicating if navigation's turned on or not (either via Google Maps or via Waze). When my screen turns off, my mobile data connection (if away from home) is switched off. But when I've got my navigation app in the background (when I get a call, for example), the condition set returns false. But I don't want my data connection to drop at that moment. Not when the app is still running in the background, but when the app isn't running at all....

Greetz!

 

[raino]

But I don't want my data connection to drop at that moment. Not when the app is still running in the background, but when the app isn't running at all....

Maybe try amending the condition to also include "when app is stopped or in background," and Llama will match both? Hopefully by "stopped" it means "stopped but active" and not "stopped and not having been run for a while."

 

[davidtm]

. . . to davidtm, can you explain a little more?

Actually, a better restatement is that I have an event for being at Home, an area defined by 2 cells and my WiFi network (both name and MAC). I have another event for when I leave Home that is triggered by disconnection of my WiFi, and turns on BT for my car connection. However, when driving away, my phone will sometimes pick up the cells that are associated with Home, and it turns off BT. My car will not reconnect BT without turning off and restarting the car, so I'm stuck without my car/phone connection.

What am I missing?

Welcome back, and thanks for all the help!

 

[bveyndhoven]

Hopefully by "stopped" it means "stopped but active" and not "stopped and not having been run for a while."

Hi Raino,

Unfortunately, the condition doesn't check if an app has been loaded. The help text comes down to "checks an app for running in foreground/not running in foreground". So when an app is running but not displayed (open app, press home key), the condition states the app is "stopped or running in background".

I don't know if Android itself makes a difference between a "loaded/unloaded" state and a "foreground/background" state...

That's what makes my question kinda difficult (if not impossible) to solve...

Cheers!

 

[bveyndhoven]

Actually, a better restatement is that I have an event for being at Home, an area defined by 2 cells and my WiFi network (both name and MAC). I have another event for when I leave Home that is triggered by disconnection of my WiFi, and turns on BT for my car connection. However, when driving away, my phone will sometimes pick up the cells that are associated with Home, and it turns off BT. My car will not reconnect BT without turning off and restarting the car, so I'm stuck without my car/phone connection.

What am I missing?

Welcome back, and thanks for all the help!

Just add a queue event. When in area home queue event is bt device x not connected switch off bt after y sec

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[davidtm]

Thanks. What I've tried instead was to add a delay to the event associated with arriving home, and that seems to work. How does one add a queue event?