multiple wifi near's

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John

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Feb 14, 2011, 3:04:31 PM2/14/11
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Is it possible to do multiple SSID's in "wifi near"?

I'm trying to build a profile for Car Mode wherein I plug my Droid X
into AC/Car (since it reads both as one) and it activates Car Home
mode as well as turning on BT. Once unplugged, it turns off BT and
cancels Car Home mode (still having issue with that part) - however,
when I plug in at home or work it tries to activate this profile.

I got around it at home by creating a Wifi Near context and inverting
it (basically saying "when you see this SSID you know NOT to perform
this task") and I'd like to add my work SSID to this as well. This
doesn't seem possible unless I'm missing something quite obvious
(which is ENTIRELY possible.)

Thanks for any thoughts/ideas/advise on this!

Rudolf

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Feb 15, 2011, 4:04:28 AM2/15/11
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How about an OR?

*SSID1*/*SSID2*

John

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Feb 15, 2011, 6:17:02 AM2/15/11
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Tried that, whenever I hit the little magnifying glass to select the
SSID from the list it wipes the one already there. OR was what I was
hoping for, too.

On Feb 15, 4:04 am, Rudolf <rudolfhetroodneuzigerend...@gmail.com>
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Rudolf

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Feb 15, 2011, 10:14:39 AM2/15/11
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Try typing it with the keyboard. ;-)
It will work when you get it done.

John

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Feb 15, 2011, 4:28:42 PM2/15/11
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Since I'd already entered my Work SSID the "usual" way I went ahead
and manually entered the Home one. I'll post results once I'm home.

Thanks!

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Muad

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Feb 16, 2011, 4:46:03 AM2/16/11
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Must type * too?
Thx

On 15 feb, 10:04, Rudolf <rudolfhetroodneuzigerend...@gmail.com>
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Rudolf

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Feb 16, 2011, 4:54:40 AM2/16/11
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* These are wildcards. *SSID* matches with anything that starts or
ends with or contains SSID.

John

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Feb 16, 2011, 6:17:32 AM2/16/11
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I added without the ' * ' and it seems to have worked fine. I'd swear
I had tried this in other profiles before and it wouldn't acknowledge
manually entered SSID's.... but, hey, it's workin' now! Thanks!

On Feb 16, 4:54 am, Rudolf <rudolfhetroodneuzigerend...@gmail.com>
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John

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Feb 17, 2011, 6:12:20 AM2/17/11
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Little oddity about this I noticed last night on the way out of
work.

The way it SHOULD work:
My WORK profile tells my phone to drop to Vibrate while in range of
SSID-WORKPLACE. Obviously this doesn't drop as soon as I step out of
the building, the signal easily covers the parking lot and so on.
Usually takes about 20 minutes before it does it's obligatory 2 or 3
checks and verifies I'm out of range, dropping the vibrate mode and,
after sending an SMS to my wife alerting her to my impending arrival,
restores alerts to normal levels.

Upon entering the car and plugging my phone into the car charging cord
the profile AUTO should kick in, activating BT, CAR HOME mode.

The way it DID work:
AUTO mode never kicked in until the checks from WORK profile had
completed some twenty minutes after I left work and Tasker had dropped
that profile. Then AUTO kicked into play, activating as it should
have. The oddity is that last night WORK did not end and AUTO did not
fire. Instead, I got all the way home whereupon my HOME profile was
activated as soon as I hit the driveway and SSID-HOME was recognized.
It seems to have skipped over the whole process of "kill WORK,
activate AUTO" in the interim.

Thoughts?
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