The Tasker, NFC and Automation Thread

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Can't see a thread on this, I'm sure many of you have some cool uses for applications like Tasker, NFC tags and other automation applications!

I've recently got myself an S4, so looking to utilise NFC tags for a few things, such as enabling Google Navigation & Bluetooth when I get into the car and put the phone into the cradle.


Does anyone have any cool things that they do with Tasker (or equivalents) that they can share?

 

[Confused]

I installed the xposed module which enables NFC whilst the phone is locked (and allows "lost tag" detection), as well as NFC ReTag Free, and placed a tag in my phone holder in the car.

When I place the phone in the holder, it does the following:

Unlock phone
Enable bluetooth
Enable GPS
Enable mobile data
Load Maps
Set screen timeout to 10 minutes


When removing the phone from the holder, it detects that it's been removed from the tag and does the following:
Disable bluetooth
Close Maps
Set screen timeout to 2 minutes
Lock phone

 

[Confused]

Once you've got the xposed module installed, you enable the "Lost Tag Detection" mode - this then creates a "phantom" NFC tag which is the identity of the tag with "_LOST" appended to the end of it.

From there - you set whatever application you're using for NFC detection to do different tasks when it sees the tag proper to the "lost" tag


As you're allowing tags to "wake" and unlock the device, you can also decide to specify exactly which tags allow the phone to wake up, to prevent unwanted tags from doing random stuff to your phone just because you're allowing searching for tags when the phone is switched off.