Better way to check which location service is enabled?

[tboooe]

Its been a few years since I last used Tasker.  

I want to check to see which location service is enabled (network or GPS).  I know I can run in Tasker the shell command "settings get secure location_providers_allowed" and get back either get "network", "gps", or nothing.  I can then do a matching for "network" or "gps".  So my question..is there a simpler way to do this with perhaps a built in Tasker function?

[Sean Williams]

Hi,

I want to check to see which location service is enabled (network or GPS). I know I can run in Tasker the shell command "settings get secure location_providers_allowed" and get back either get "network", "gps", or nothing. I can then do a matching for "network" or "gps". So my question..is there a simpler way to do this with perhaps a built in Tasker function?

You have of course the global %GPS variable.

If you want the exact mode the only way I know of is to query with Taskers java actions.

[tboooe]

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 2:43:23 PM UTC-7, Sean Williams wrote:

You have of course the global %GPS variable.

If you want the exact mode the only way I know of is to query with Taskers java actions.

Thank you...thats what I figured.  I will go ahead with the adb shell command method I outlined in the first post.