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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've been using tasker for 16 years now and am always surprised that it hasn't started to suck or had a lot of functions blocked over the years

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Any interesting uses you'd care to share?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    The list is literally endless, and more often than not specific to what you specifically need. Here are some things I have setup:

    • If my wife texts me "911" it turns my ringer volume to 100%
    • When my phone battery is below 5% and my home wifi is not nearby, it will send a text to my wife to let her know my phone might die
    • I split my photos into different folders based on GPS coordinates in the exif data. I have one for home and work, then a default
    • Backup files to my server when I am on my wifi
    • Tracks how much time I am spending at work by checking when I am near my works WiFi
    • Auto-enable Wire guard when I leave my home network
    • Stores my phones location whenever it disconnects from my cars bluetooth (basically a local parked car location reminder)
    • If I turn on my flashlight while pressing the volume down button it instead opens a "flashlight app" that is just a solid color on the screen. This allows me to use a light source without it being the full brightness of the flashlight. Nice when you have a sleeping partner
    • I have been using DailyYou and forget to take pictures, so I have it open the app for me every 30 minutes after the reminder notification until I take the picture.

    I have also used it previously for job specific tasks. Like I had a button on my home screen that would open a menu with a list of options, and then I would select one of the options. It just saved that selected text and the current time into a file so I could reference what time I did something.

    If you have any sort of smart home, the options just keep growing.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I do have a smart home and spend way too much time playing around with it, but haven't done much with Tasker yet. The only thing I use it for right now BT presence detection to trigger a task enabling wifi and disabling location.

    Interesting and useful info, thanks for sharing.

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