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 said:
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?
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I had a 'bag' profile for my work phone with macrodroid, basically put an NFC tag in the pocket of my bag I use for the phone that racks the volume up and turns everything (bar GSM and mobile data) off.

When i was commuting daily I had a script in tasker, kicked off by a nfc tag in the cradle that would:

finally a nightstand profile that would:
  • Open alarm settings
  • turn off sound (bar alarm)
  • turn off LED (annoyed misses)
 
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I don't do anything too fancy: when I plug in a pair of headphones Tasker sets the media volume to the level I usually listen at and pops up a menu to choose which media app I want to use.
 
I used to use Tasker to automate stuff when it connected to Bluetooth in car, but now music plays automatically when connected and I leave WiFi/data on all the time. I find having a couple of widgets on home screen the best solution now so I don't bother with Tasker.
 
Haven't got Tasker installed at the moment, but I had some fairly complicated things set up on it.

If anyone needs a hand with it I could try and help :)
 
I used to use NFC tasking when I had worse battery life and a less intelligent bluetooth system in the car to turn on BT and load up TuneIn Radio which would play my last station. However now I get in my new car and it starts playing music whichever app it left off from and has all the track info displayed. It's all standard stuff now.

Also with new devices being much more contextually aware (driving, sleeping, in a meeting etc) I've found I don't use tasker at all anymore.
 
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i bought these 5 x nfc tags for a fiver on ebay but in the end i've realise nfc tags doesnt work during lock-state :( i dont want to install these bunch of xposed framework modifications to get it work with lockscreen. so annoying!!
 
metachi said:
i bought these 5 x nfc tags for a fiver on ebay but in the end i've realise nfc tags doesnt work during lock-state :( i dont want to install these bunch of xposed framework modifications to get it work with lockscreen. so annoying!!
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Think if you're rooted you can make them work on a locked phone
 
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
 
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.
 
I do loads with Tasker, it's fantastic

Home profile in (detected by wifi)
Screen lock off
Bluetooth off
GPS off
All volume levels to low

Home profile out (home wifi disconnection)
Screen lock on
Bluetooth on
GPS on
All volume levels to medium

Car profile in (detected by bluetooth)
Wifi off
Volume high
Start music play back when headphone (aux) in plugged in
Monitors for incoming sms, pauses music and reads out text messages

Car profile out (bluetooth disconnection)

Wifi on
Bluetooth off
Volume medium


Sleep profile on(00:00-07:55 if at home location and screen is off for 1 minute)
Volume 0 (except alarm)
Data off
Wifi off
Bluetooth off
 
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