Posted: 5/9/2013 10:32:51 PM EDT
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Or any less stupid than me?
This shit shouldn't be this hard. But I'll be damned if I can figure it out. I'm trying to create 2 profiles. One for at home, one for at work. When I leave home, I want the wifi to turn off and mobile hotspot to come on. When I get to work, I want the mobile hotspot to turn off and wifi to turn on. And then vice versa when I leave work and get home. I can't make it work. I've tried location and wifi near. WTF am I doing wrong? |
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I generally set mine to cue on time frames, but I do have mine set to go into vibe only if I'm w/in 1000 meters of school, and once I'm away from that it will kick back to loud.
If you have "allow mock locations" enabled in the phone settings, that could play havoc with the location reporting to tasker. |
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If your'e just looking to create ringtone/vibrate profiels for Night/Day, "AudioManager Pro" is a lot easier. Sure it will cost you a buck or two, but it's the easiest way to set time specific profiles.
Audio Manager Pro |
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I generally set mine to cue on time frames, but I do have mine set to go into vibe only if I'm w/in 1000 meters of school, and once I'm away from that it will kick back to loud. If you have "allow mock locations" enabled in the phone settings, that could play havoc with the location reporting to tasker. Basically, I want the hotspot to come on anytime I leave my house, and only turn off when I get to work or return home. Similarly, I want to make sure the hotspot turns on when I leave the shop. I don't have mock locations enabled. |
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Basically, I want the hotspot to come on anytime I leave my house, and only turn off when I get to work or return home. Similarly, I want to make sure the hotspot turns on when I leave the shop. I don't have mock locations enabled. Seems to be what you're looking for: found this article , need to pluck some of the variable from w/in it to get the results. I've never used the "near wifi" ones in the 2 years I've had Tasker. Trying to get my phone to boot so I can give useful feedback |
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Basically, I want the hotspot to come on anytime I leave my house, and only turn off when I get to work or return home. Similarly, I want to make sure the hotspot turns on when I leave the shop. I don't have mock locations enabled. Seems to be what you're looking for: found this article , trying to get my phone to boot so I can give useful feedback Yeah, I followed that exactly, no dice. |
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Do it with several profiles:
Set a variable based on the WiFi network you're connected to Set a variable based on whether or not you're within X km of home or work ( 1 if close 0 if not) Then if the location one is 1, then have it turn on WiFi, if 0, turn off WiFi. You could then set a profile for WiFi near, set it to your home or work WiFi SSID, check the 'invert' box and then have it initiate your mobile hotspot. You're gonna have to try some things. You need to determine what condition (going away from home loses connection to the WiFi at home) you can use to trigger whichever change. Leaving a WiFi network is easy, since you can set a profile to trigger when it is not near a WiFi network. The problem I can see is that the HotSpot feature basically takes over your WiFi, so it can't tell when you get close to another network. If you have access to power most of the time, you can use GPS location. Tasker can do cell location, but it's spotty. Sometimes my phone would see the same towers both at home and at work, even tho they are about 12 miles apart or so. |