Fun with Tasker (phone nerdage)

[Ryoki]

So i recently discovered Tasker, anyone familiar with it? It's an app for Android that allows you to teach your phone 'if this then that (unless this)' commands. Doesn't have to be a rooted phone either, though apparently it helps with the more complex commands. Oh the fun i'm having with it! I seriously for reals spent about 5 hours messing around with it last night, this is some seriously hardcore nerd shit i tell you.

The first thing i did was tell my phone that being turned upside down means being quiet (a standard feature on newer phones, i know). Then i made a more fun one; if i plug in my headphones and no mic is detected it now automatically boots up Soundcloud, which is my standard music player. But the one i'm most proud of so far is 'if home wifi network detected, drop security' which is just awesome ain't it? God, that one took me like 2 hours, kept fucking it up... but now it's glorious. Maybe i'll do something to boost my recharge speed next, like 'if charging detected, drop wifi and 3g and 4g and close all apps' or someshit. Haven't quite figured that one out yet

I'm pretty sure the possibilities with this app are endless (not sure though). It costs a few bucks but man, it's like the coolest app ever... it can do loads of stuff with NFC too, like if you put one of those little stickers someplace you can tell your phone to engage in all kinds of weird behaviour. Gotta look into that too...

[Eraser]

My phone can send text messages!

[Ryoki]

That's cool bro, but with Tasker you can set your phone to send an automated text message to your wife when you leave your work wifi network which says 'baby i'm coming home, cook my food and fetch my beer'. I mean, if you were so inclined.

I'm planning to get a Google Nest in my next house coupled with Philips Hue lights, i'm totally gonna figure some shit out where my house starts heating up when i leave work and all the lights go crazy for two seconds after i enter the house.*

* my girl will probably murder me in my sleep if i do this.

[MKJ]

pretty sure Google Now can do that out of the box

[MKJ]

also, get a thermostat made after 1953.

[Ryoki]

pretty sure Google Now can do that our of the box

Oh? I've not messed around much with Google Now but would be interested to know how...

And you're advising against the Nest? I'm mostly interested in it because it can communicate with the Hue lights (which i shall definitely be getting), any particular reasons i should be looking at something else? Is it a bad machine that will make me feel bad for buying one? I know they're overpriced, but my opinion on that is 'whatever it looks cool'.

[syp0s]

An app to make Android even more insufferably complex and battery draining. I'm sold.

Actually, I did mess around with Tasker when I briefly had an Android phone, and half the things I set up soon become an irritation.

[Doombrain]

Lol android phones.

[Tsakali]

tasker is the shit, i'm using it along another plugin, that allows me to set up voice commands to control all kinds of crap while I'm riding my bike, through my helmet's headset... highly recommended

[scared?]

Only ppl still using iPhones are kids and morons who think they are rich... ...

[SOAPboy]

Only ppl still using iPhones are kids and morons who think they are rich... ...

Or people who hate playing computer janitor on something thats supposed to be a phone.

Lol android phones.

Yeah. Pretty much. Hate to admit it.

6+ spoils me, the camera, god the camera.
And that battery.



Tasker was dope as fuck though. Having shit set via locations and wifi networks and shit. Just being able to flip settings around and what not all automated is pretty awesome. More so when you're struggling for battery life on a long day.

pretty sure Google Now can do that our of the box

Oh? I've not messed around much with Google Now but would be interested to know how...

And you're advising against the Nest? I'm mostly interested in it because it can communicate with the Hue lights (which i shall definitely be getting), any particular reasons i should be looking at something else? Is it a bad machine that will make me feel bad for buying one? I know they're overpriced, but my opinion on that is 'whatever it looks cool'.

I'm about to just buy one for my apartment myself and move it when we move. Then again, I always have perfect luck with everything google. Except my Galaxy Nexus, Because fuck that phone. Worst case you swap in your old one and return it. Ugh I dunno. This is exactly why I havent pulled the trigger either. My current one works fine, and really I dont wanna do all the extra bonus features here.

Theres also some security shit that can interface with it I think. Door things and what not.

[scared?]

Red font moron and pink font dipshit should have a pretentious douche-off battle... ...

[SOAPboy]

Red font moron and pink font dipshit should have a pretentious douche-off battle... ...

Liking nice things is pretentious. News at 11

[Eraser]

An Android vs iPhone thread. Say it isn't so!

[seremtan]

here we go again

[Korozive]

An Android vs iPhone thread. Say it isn't so!

I thought this was a Quake 3 forum?

[plained]

android should buy that app and build it in no?

[SOAPboy]

An Android vs iPhone thread. Say it isn't so!

Hardly. Both have a place.

One you have to janitor more than the other. Big deal.

[scared?]

Sitting in the apple store ATM... Worst customer service ever... 1 hour after apt time guy finally walks up... Pathetic... Also... Everyone here looks and acts like total dipshits...

[xer0s]

You'll fit right in...

[seremtan]

Sitting in the apple store ATM... Worst customer service ever... 1 hour after apt time guy finally walks up... Pathetic... Also... Everyone here looks and acts like total dipshits...

congrats on getting a job interview though!

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Sitting in the apple store ATM... Worst customer service ever... 1 hour after apt time guy finally walks up... Pathetic... Also... Everyone here looks and acts like total dipshits...

You waited an hour? Only losers do that.

[syp0s]

Sitting in the apple store ATM... Worst customer service ever... 1 hour after apt time guy finally walks up... Pathetic... Also... Everyone here looks and acts like total dipshits...

Finally upgrading to a 5C? You'll love it - much faster than a 3GS.

[scared?]

Actually pooron, my wife was getting a new phone cuz her crappy 3 day old 6+ screen cracked after being dropped from a chair on to a wood floor... Apple Care+ $80... Lol pathetic....

[shaft]

I've dropped my 6+ more than any other of my previous phones combined. Can't seem to get use to the size.