I recently started playing with Tasker and I love it. Here's how I'm using it at the moment:
Reads out my news and weather each morning at 7am then switches to my music app and plays a playlist. I need to figure out a way to route this audio to my surround sound in the bedroom but it doesn't look likely based on the digging I've done. EDIT: Air Audio works well for this.
Switches on Wi-Fi when I hit a certain set of cell towers near my house and welcomes me home when it connects to my home Wi-Fi. Only between certain times of day. Also opens yatse for media centre control.
Only switches on GPS for certain apps and switches it off when they close.
Checks my account balances every two hours during the day and announces that it its doing so. Can monitor rogue usage this way.
Shake to switch on torch.
Battery saving profiles defined and automated based on time of day, battery status and location.
If a failed phone security pin is entered from the lock screen, the following actions take place: force GPS on. Take pic with front and rear camera. Wait 20 seconds for GPS lock. Switch off GPS and send me a text msg with date, time, Google maps location, battery status, Wi-Fi details and cell tower location. Upon receipt of sms the phone announces a security breach.
Same thing happens if I send an sms to the phone with a certain phrase except it send to multiple numbers.
Plugging in headphones opens a list of audio apps to choose from.
Swiping across the face of the phone switches profiles.
Spoken battery full alerts to take off charge. Repeats every 10 min. Only during certain times of the day.
I still might try to integrate with auto remote and auto notifications at a later point but it gets quite complicated. I'd also like to start some home automation projects with it and perhaps use done nfc tags.
So what do you do with Tasker?
Reads out my news and weather each morning at 7am then switches to my music app and plays a playlist. I need to figure out a way to route this audio to my surround sound in the bedroom but it doesn't look likely based on the digging I've done. EDIT: Air Audio works well for this.
Switches on Wi-Fi when I hit a certain set of cell towers near my house and welcomes me home when it connects to my home Wi-Fi. Only between certain times of day. Also opens yatse for media centre control.
Only switches on GPS for certain apps and switches it off when they close.
Checks my account balances every two hours during the day and announces that it its doing so. Can monitor rogue usage this way.
Shake to switch on torch.
Battery saving profiles defined and automated based on time of day, battery status and location.
If a failed phone security pin is entered from the lock screen, the following actions take place: force GPS on. Take pic with front and rear camera. Wait 20 seconds for GPS lock. Switch off GPS and send me a text msg with date, time, Google maps location, battery status, Wi-Fi details and cell tower location. Upon receipt of sms the phone announces a security breach.
Same thing happens if I send an sms to the phone with a certain phrase except it send to multiple numbers.
Plugging in headphones opens a list of audio apps to choose from.
Swiping across the face of the phone switches profiles.
Spoken battery full alerts to take off charge. Repeats every 10 min. Only during certain times of the day.
I still might try to integrate with auto remote and auto notifications at a later point but it gets quite complicated. I'd also like to start some home automation projects with it and perhaps use done nfc tags.
So what do you do with Tasker?
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