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I think the only reason why many ad infested apps haven't been replaced by #Tasker scripts with less than a dozen commands each is the rather peculiar user experience.
Which is me saying that a dentist visit may be more pleasant.
And what is it with video tutorials rather than good docs?

But there's really no alternative, is there?

How cool! Just got used to the left-right-shake to toggle play and pause of active media app via Tasker when I discovered "Tap, Tap" which seems to work fine with my Samsung Galaxy A53.

github.com/KieronQuinn/TapTap

"Tap, Tap provides over 50 actions that can be run from double or triple taps on the back of your device"

Port of the double tap on back of device feature from Android 12 to any Android 7.0+ device - KieronQuinn/TapTap
GitHubGitHub - KieronQuinn/TapTap: Port of the double tap on back of device feature from Android 12 to any Android 7.0+ devicePort of the double tap on back of device feature from Android 12 to any Android 7.0+ device - KieronQuinn/TapTap

As #Android is becoming more and more locked down, trying to become #iOS, I see fewer and fewer reasons to use it. #Tasker (the best ever case for Android) getting nerfed over the years, #SyncThing canceling their official Android app due to Google's shenanigans regarding Play rules etc. Why use "spying af iOS" when I can use the original "a bit less spying iOS"? Please for the sake of humanity, can proper #Linux mobile become a viable thing already?

How do people deal with ad blocking on dns level when out of the home, on Android?

I don't want to have a vpn running 24/7, nor do I constantly want to be using some external dns service.

Right now I have a Tasker automation that switches my dns to nextdns when not on my trusted WiFi, but often the switcheroo gives problems.

📦 #Platypush 1.3.0 is out!

This release turns procedures into first-class citizens.

Procedures are the bread-and-butter of Platypush customizations. They allow you to specify some custom logic that can run within the application, either from structured requests or code snippets - both #Python and #YAML scripts are supported. They are akin to recipes in #IFTTT and tasks in #Tasker.

You can call them from an event hook when a certain condition is met, from a cronjob or an alarm, from stand-alone scripts, from other procedures, and so on.

This release improves the integration of procedures into the UI, turning them into entities that can be controlled from the entities panel - and, soon, embedded into custom dashboards.

It also introduces a new powerful procedure editor, which allows you to visually create your automation routines through an intuitive UI with drag-and-drop support (a big part of this release has been about getting drag-and-drop to work nicely on mobile too). The new UI supports nested if/for/while blocks, break/continue/return, setting context variables, variable name autocompletion, export to YAML (if you prefer to have your procedures stored in the configuration rather than the db), and more.

This UI has been inspired by the job done by Joao Dias on Tasker (I’ve always wanted to have a similarly powerful block-based UI to create custom routines also on desktop/server), and in part by IFTTT’s recipe editor.

Python procedures can also be easily managed through a new file editor component that allows you to precisely navigate to their definition.

This release also includes a new file browser component. You can now browse your files on the Platypush instance, create/edit/delete/upload/download them directly from the Platypush UI, even if you don’t have SSH access to the machine.

Happy hacking!

Found a very interesting #OpenSource #Android automation app: #PhoneProfilesPlus

I used #Tasker for a long time, but I was looking for an FOSS alternative. "Automation" was promising, but I never got it running as I wished.

Now it is time for something new.
The documentation is a bit sparse, but the tool itself seems to be very powerful and well maintained.

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a

IzzyOnDroid App Repo„PhoneProfilesPlus“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid RepositoryAutomatically configure the device for life situations.

Android Tasker routine to warn if home WiFi is not functioning correctly

Been experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today, and sometimes my wife says her phone is not connecting, and I’d have to reboot the home rou ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/android-tasker

GadgeteerZA · Android Tasker routine to warn if home WiFi is not functioning correctlyBeen experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today,

Android Tasker routine to warn if home WiFi is not functioning correctly

Tasker app screen showing Task Edit at top with name WiFi Test. Below that are 4 numbered actions starting at 1 with an action called Variable Set with the variable name %HA_PING to 0. Then action 2 is called Ping and says Host 192.168.1.212 number 2 (for run two ping tests) and further says If %HOME equals 1. Action 3 is called Notify with a title Check WiFi if %HA_PING equals 0 and %HOME equals 1. Action 4 is called Say and has the text "Check Home WiFi" and only if the condition %HOME equals 1 and %HA_PING equals 0. Been experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today, and sometimes my wife says her phone is not […]

gadgeteer.co.za/android-tasker

squeet.me/display/962c3e10-97a

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So while I do have KDE connect set up on my laptop and phone, I finally got around to doing the actually super useful additional step of sprinkling some automation on top of that.

So I've got
#tasker set up to detect "significant movement" upon which to open the URL to lock my laptop through #KDEconnect. "Significant movement" is a hazy concept, but it seems to work well, for a couple of reasons:
- it will lock it by the time I'm a few meters away from my desk
- and what's even nicer it will lock regardless if someone has already started typing something or moving the mouse around, so you can't force the laptop to stay unlocked

Now unless someone's crafty enough to very quickly inflict damage, even if I do again forget to lock my laptop (I'm still keeping discipline, this whole thing is just a fail safe) it should be near impossible to manage to inflict meaningful damage. So I can keep my banitsa making abilities for the cases where I want to use them and am not obligated to do so.