Tasker/Wifi Question

[Wnrgway]

The cell signal at my house isn't the best and the S3 routinely drops calls. I've started using Tasker to try to automatically forward calls to my home number.

I've set it to dial *72 and the home phone when connected to my wifi. Using location as a condition was troublesome because I had to set a very large radius for it to work. I guess the poor cell signal leads to poor position accuracy.

Anyway, my wifi seems to drop off every few hours and the phone cancels forwarded calls and then proceeds to call to forward them again.

I have the wifi set to stay on while asleep. I've disabled juice defender and removed the power bar widget as that might also affect it. The wifi signal is good and this happens within a few feet of the router as well.

Does anyone know why either the wifi would drop occassionally or tasker would think that was happening?

 

[OWybPPgO]

My wifi drops too. I have an "at home" profile for tasker and it confuses the heck out of it. My wifi used to drop on my DX2 too, although it never does on my tablet (Android) or my non-Android devices.

I have to play with my profiles to get it to handle this better.

 

[Dhendy91]

The cell signal at my house isn't the best and the S3 routinely drops calls. I've started using Tasker to try to automatically forward calls to my home number.

I've set it to dial *72 and the home phone when connected to my wifi. Using location as a condition was troublesome because I had to set a very large radius for it to work. I guess the poor cell signal leads to poor position accuracy.

Anyway, my wifi seems to drop off every few hours and the phone cancels forwarded calls and then proceeds to call to forward them again.

I have the wifi set to stay on while asleep. I've disabled juice defender and removed the power bar widget as that might also affect it. The wifi signal is good and this happens within a few feet of the router as well.

Does anyone know why either the wifi would drop occassionally or tasker would think that was happening?

Just an idea, but if you use an app like nfc task launcher , you could programme an NFC sticker to launch your tasker task that forwards your calls (really easy),that way as you come in just tap your phone against the sticker when you come in = calls forwarded , tap again as you leave = calls unforwarded , if you put the sticker by your front door would be so easy and you would save battery not having your WIFI on all the time.

 

[Wnrgway]

Just an idea, but if you use an app like nfc task launcher , you could programme an NFC sticker to launch your tasker task that forwards your calls (really easy),that way as you come in just tap your phone against the sticker when you come in = calls forwarded , tap again as you leave = calls unforwarded , if you put the sticker by your front door would be so easy and you would save battery not having your WIFI on all the time.

That's probably the best way of handling it. It's too bad there isn't a reliable fully automatic way of doing it, but an NFC that would just place the forwarding call would be the next best thing. I wouldn't be dependent on wifi to execute that task.

Thanks!!!!

 

[Dhendy91]

No worries! Always happy to help! It should just be as simple as changing the input method for tasked to an NFC sticker too! You just have to remember to tap it that's the only thing!

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