Phone Idle/Offhook

[Jinson]

Trying to set up a variable that is used to start other profiles when
I am not on the phone.

i.e. When on phone set var then clear when off

Seems simple but I have to use it in conjunction with phone idle as no
exit task on offhook which is not very consistent.

[Pent]

> Seems simple but I have to use it in conjunction with phone idle as no
> exit task on offhook which is not very consistent.

There's no exit task on any event, which is very consistent:

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/faq-why.html#i

Pent

[Jinson]

Thanks for the reply
Yeah I know that is why I use the following work around which seems
inconsistent - is there a problem with the following?

Set a variable when the phone is off hook and then clear it when the
phone is idle

[Pent]

> Set a variable when the phone is off hook and then clear it when the
> phone is idle

For incoming calls, that will only work once the phone has been picked
up (if it is picked up). To catch the start of the ring for an
incoming
call, see event Phone Ringing.

Pent

[Jinson]

I think that is what I want. The task switches to airplane mode but I
don't want it to do it whilst I am on the phone.

[UncleMike]

I have 3 profiles that handle this:

Context: Phone Ringing

Task:

Variable Set %myPHONE ringing

Context: Phone Offhook

Task:

Variable Set %myPHONE offhook

Context: Phone Idle

Task:

Variable Set %myPHONE idle

For your purposes you could then add the following context to your existing profile:

Context: Variable Value %myPHONE ~ idle

[Jinson]

Thanks that did it :D

On Feb 20, 10:09 pm, UncleMike <mquin...@metroconnectonline.com>
wrote:

[BossMan]

For example like this:

1) rework UncleMike's profiles a bit and instead strings, use numeric values when setting %myPHONE, i.e.

when idle, set to 0,

when ringing, set to = 1,

when offhook, set to  = 2

2) create a second profile like this:

Context: Bluetooth Connected (select your device)

enter Task:

Variable Set %noBT = 0

exit Task: 

Variable Set %noBT = 1

Then, your announcemt profile could be like this:

Context: every hour

Context: Variable Value %noBT + %myPHONE > 0

Profile will not become active if your phone is idle and you are connected to your bluetooth headset (0 + 0 is not > 0), but will become active in all other situations.

BR,

A.

On Monday, August 6, 2012 6:24:09 PM UTC+2, Mike wrote:

I have this in use but I'd like to be able to process both phone state as this does and bluetooth connection before carrying out an action. For example, if I do an hourly announcement, I don't want it to announce over bluetooth unless I'm on the phone as it cuts off the beginning of the announcement. Not sure how to nest decisions in tasker as I'm new to the program.