Questions about Tasker integration

[deluge]

I've read the API page and noticed it mentioning intents for use in
Tasker (https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api),
however I'm still a rookie when it comes to Tasker and I was wondering
how I would use those intents, for example to trigger a profile/task
when the time to bed notification shows up, or after dismissing the
alarm in the morning.
Is this possible?

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Oscar,

yes this is possible either using Tasker or using App Reactor.

Here are example scripts for App Reactor:

http://appreactorandroid.blogspot.com/search/label/Sleep%20as%20Android

And within Tasker here is a short description how to do it:

1. Create a new task, 

2. Click + and choose "Action Intent" from the "Misc" category 

3.  fill in the name of the intent action into the action text field for example:

 com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK 
 com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.TIME_TO_BED_ALARM_ALERT
 com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START
 com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START

This will cause your profile task is triggered when the Intent arrives and you can bind it to any Tasker action.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Petr

[deluge]

Thanks for the swift response. I studied the example scripts for App
Reactor and saw it uses "waitForIntent", but I can't find the
equivalent to that in Tasker.
I've looked through every event in this screen but can't seem to find
out how to trigger a profile when an Intent arrives: http://i.imgur.com/qmUmY.png

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello,

I'm sorry, my mistake. I'm not sure about this, but it seems the profile cannot be triggered by an arbitrary intent. It would be good to approve this information with the Tasker developers and maybe ask them to include Sleep as Android with the 3rd party section. 

Anyway, what is possible to create a task which send an intent such as for example com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK whenever a profile is triggered. For example you can start sleep tracking when your headphones are plugged.

If you need it the other way around - starting some action based on an intent form Sleep, I would recommend you for the time being App Reactor which is free when you use a single script. 

Thank you.

Petr

[Oscar Nalum]

Hello Petr,

I have made a post in the Tasker group requesting support for Sleep as Android integration. I have yet to receive a reply, but it seems you could write a plugin for it yourself and it will be automatically detected under the "3rd Party Plugin" menu in Tasker. If you're interested, you can read more about it here: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/plugins.html

Thank you

[Petr Nalevka]

Thank you. I will put it on our TODO list.

Best regards,

Petr

[Oscar Nalum]

Has there been any progress on this?

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Oscar,

I'm sorry but we did not get to this yet, I'm putting it higher priority on the task list.  For now as a workaround you may consider using AppReactor. 

Thank you.

Best regards,

Petr

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Umer]

This is a long shot, but any updates on this? 

[Joshua Davis]

I would like to check and see if there has been any progress on this.  I would love to have this functionality, things like letting tasker know if you hit snooze and allowing tasker to enable the sleep tracker.  I was also wondering if there was any push to get this synced up with voice commands?  These two features would really be amazing and elevate it far beyond any of the other alarms out there.

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello,

sorry for the delay on this we did not yet get to Tasker integration. But quite some thinks are already possible. For example starting sleep tracking as a Tasker action. 

Please consult our documentation on this https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Petr

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
 
 

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Alex Kutniy]

+1 for this plugin

[Krista Wolffe]

Definitely +1!  I'd *love* to have Sleep As Android trigger a Tasker State or Action when Sleep Tracking starts, when the Smart Wakeup period starts, and when the Alarm starts and is dismissed.  I have Tasker linked with MobiLink which is linked to my home automation system.

My dream setup would go as such:  

1.  Start Sleep Tracking -> Triggers Tasker -> Triggers Home Automation -> Dims the bedroom lights slowly and fades the music out over 15 min or so.

2.  During Smart Wakeup Period -> Triggers Tasker -> Triggers Home Automation -> Fades the super bright lights in and slowly opens the curtains

3.  Alarm Is Triggered -> Triggers Tasker -> Triggers Home Automation -> Starts Coffee Pot, turns on computer, starts playing music

4.  Alarm Is Dismissed -> Triggers Tasker -> Mellows out the lighting a bit.

It would also be nice if I could specify an alarm to go off subtly while sleeping:  I have to take medicine every 6 hours, so something quiet that will allow me to wake up, grab the pill from the night stand, then fall back asleep.  Currently I use the fitbit on my wrist for this, but integrating it into Sleep As Android would be awesome.

Thanks! 

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Krista,

I believe your dream setup is already possible. Please consult this resource on our API. There is also a short Tasker example https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api. Please let me know if you are missing some feature in the API. Or if there is some limitation with Tasker to achieve this. 

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Petr

 

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Andres Paz]

Two things:

1. I don't believe it is. She wants the alarm to trigger tasker, not tasker to trigger the alarm.

2. Do you know why my messages were deleted? I posted both here and in the Pebble thread, I'm very confused as to why they would be deleted, I was only offering suggestions.

I've been trying to get Sleep as Android working with my Pebble, and I thought I might be able to do it, but it looks like I can't. I guess I'm going to have to look into App Reactor to see if I can get it to talk to the Pebble. 

Just a suggestion, if you got Tasker integration working, you could skip Pebble integration [and possibly other devices, if they can communicate with Tasker], release some Tasker tasks to work with Pebble, and 'kill two birds with one stone.'

 

Also, I've played around with AppReactor and I can't get it to do what I was going for either.

[James Curtis]

Hi Krista,

I already have some of your dream set up running. I use Eventghost on my computer instead of your MobiLink system, but the principles should still be the same.

1. I have a Tasker profile that is activated between 22:30 - 06:30 & the phone is on charge. The Tasker task for this starts sleep tracking using the intent (com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK) and also sends a command to my computer running Eventghost to start a macro that turns the lights off and start playing music.

2. I don't know how to access the smart wake up period directly, but wouldn't this be the same as your alarm time minus the duration you've set for the smart wake up period (for me this would be 06:30 minus 15mins, 06:15) then tell your MobiLink to do X.

3. Another Tasker profile for (com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START) intent and a task to tell MobiLink to do X

4. Same as 3. but using the (com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_DISMISS) intent.

Hope this helps, I can post some of my Tasker profiles if you like.

James.

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Andreas, 

you messages where recognized as spam, maybe because of the links so I did approve them just now. Regarding Tasker, I'm not really familiar with it. For me I don't understand why Tasker needs some plugin in order to create a profile which would react on our intents. Definitely in AppReactor it was straight forward to implement this. Also as of what James wrote below, it seems it is in fact possible to pair the profile to a SaA intent, right?

[Krista Wolffe]

Petr:

I'm interested in having Sleep As Droid be a central control for all my sleeping needs.  Having SAD trigger tasker would be a cleaner and more stable solution.  (Deliberate invocation vs trying to figure out the state of an independant app)

The API for SAD also seems to lack notification for the start of the smart wakeup period.

Although I don't write for Android yet, I can dig up some integration code if it would help.  I can probably get a pulldown menu listing Tasker tasks and a function to call one.  I think I saw an example class somewhere and Ive been meaning to dip my toes into Android dev anyway.

James:

Tasker examples would be great!  I write system and kernel level code for embedded devices, I'm just not as familliar with Android dev as I'd like to b; I've got to read up more on intents and such.

Thank you both!

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Krista, 

thank you for your feedback. Please see below.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Krista Wolffe <krista...@gmail.com> wrote:

Petr:

I'm interested in having Sleep As Droid be a central control for all my sleeping needs.  Having SAD trigger tasker would be a cleaner and more stable solution.  (Deliberate invocation vs trying to figure out the state of an independant app)

This is definitely very simple to achieve in Tasker as of https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api.

 

The API for SAD also seems to lack notification for the start of the smart wakeup period.

You are right. This is not included. I will put it on our TODO. 

Although I don't write for Android yet, I can dig up some integration code if it would help.  I can probably get a pulldown menu listing Tasker tasks and a function to call one.  I think I saw an example class somewhere and Ive been meaning to dip my toes into Android dev anyway.

I think it is not needed. You can easily create Tasker profiles which react on Sleep as Android intents. And according to what James wrote also to trigger SaA ations - but I did not test this direction. 

James:

Tasker examples would be great!  I write system and kernel level code for embedded devices, I'm just not as familliar with Android dev as I'd like to b; I've got to read up more on intents and such.

This is how you achieve the direction SaA -> Tasker when sleep tracking is started for example:

Create a new task, click + and choose "Action Intent" from the "Misc" category and there you fill in com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK into the action text field.

 

Thank you both!

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Petr

  

--

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Andres Paz]

This is how you achieve the direction SaA -> Tasker when sleep tracking is started for example:
Create a new task, click + and choose "Action Intent" from the "Misc" category and there you fill in com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK into the action text field.

Ah, yes. I wasn't able to find that before for some reason. I've tried it now for a few days, it's worked fine. As Krista said, it would be much better if SaA could trigger Tasker, but this should be fine for now.

Would it be possible to add a snooze intent as well? I have Tasker set up to send notifications to my Pebble every second [so it vibrates] but if I snooze it doesn't stop the alarm task, I have to dismiss the alarm or stop the task manually.

Thanks,

Andres

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello Andreas, 

there is an com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_SNOOZE_CLICKED_ACTION intent. We will update the resource on API. Could you please write some more on the pebble notification. I think it would be worth to build this in into Sleep as Android.

[John Otters]

Hi, I was playing around with Tasker and Sleep as Android yesterday and I come to the conclusion that the API's are useful for triggers.

Use the Misc -> Intent recieved option in Tasker and copy-paste the intent from SAA's API webpage.

The other way around is using Misc -> Send intent. To use SAA as an action. For instance, I have SAA set up to say to me to go to bed when the app 'buzzes' using "com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.TIME_TO_BED_ALARM_ALERT"
By the way, Petr, if you go to bed too early, the time to bed alert will still send the intent (but without ringing), making Tasker tell me to go to bed, when I'm already there.

The same way you can tell tasker to turn of airplane mode when: com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_DISMISS
Additionally, it will tell me good morning... and could tell me the weather etc. If I could just link it to my coffee machind...

Petr, is there a way to put this info clearer on your website? I can imagine that it's quite complicated for some users.

Also, I would like to also be able to voice-change the next alarm by using tasker. I see an API to add an alarm, but is there perhaps one to change the next alarm? That would be great.

Sleep as Android is awesome!

John
Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 03:28:22 UTC+2 schreef Krista Wolffe:

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello John,

thank you very much to post the details how to trigger SaA functionality with Tasker. I will update the guide in the API page.

Regarding the time to bed issue, could this be handled in Takser using a different profile which will no react when com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK was posted? I don't see a simple way how to handle this properly in SaA.

Currently we don't have Intent to change alarms. Although there is a Content Provider to access alarms. I'm not sure if Tasker would be able to access a CP?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Petr

 

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Andres Paz]

I think it would probably require a Pebble app to work best, currently it works by spamming notifications to it until the alarm is dismissed or snoozed, though if you could somehow use the phone call notification instead it might work a little better.

Here's how I set up the tasks

This requires Pebble Notifier, or another app that can talk to Tasker and send notifications to Pebble

Task Name: Start Vibrate

Actions: 

1. Pebble Notifier
• Title - "Wake up!"
• Body - "%TIME"
2. Wait - 1 second
3. Go to - Action 1

---

Task Name: Stop Vibrate

Actions:

1. Stop 'Start Vibrate' task.

---

And then I set up profiles for a few intents to start/stop the alarm.

New profile

Context: Event > System > Intent Received

Put the intent to watch for in the Action field.

Link the event to either task depending on what you want. I set them up: 

com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START - Start Vibrate

com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_SNOOZE_CLICKED_ACTION - Stop Vibrate

com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_DISMISS - Stop Vibrate

I suppose you could also set up a time to bed notification through Tasker:

com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.TIME_TO_BED_ALARM_ALERT - Pebble Notifier "It's time for bed!"

And you could probably also set up PebbleTasker to start sleep tracking for you, sending the intent 'com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK' though I have no idea how sending intents work in tasker, or how PebbleTasker works.

[Petr Nalevka]

Hello,

thank you very much for your feedback. I'm putting this to our TODO list. But now cannot promise when we will get to it.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Petr

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Shawn Riley <greatop...@gmail.com> wrote:

This seems a good place to bring this up since it is a discussion about Sleep As Android intents available to Tasker (and other 3rd party apps). Before switching to SAA, I used to use Gentle Alarm for my alarm clock. I have a profile in Tasker than can disable my usual "Workday" alarm for days that I am off of work based on a Google Calendar that I have that contains all of my Work holidays and vacation days (when I put them in). This has been very useful to me.

It seem that SAA may have the potential to allow this as long as there is an intent that would permit me to enable/disable an SAA alarm (I could identify the specific alarm by using its string name). It such an intent available? If not, might you be able to add one?

Thanks,

-SR-

PS: Great work on this app!

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
Best regards,

Petr

[Andrew Jawitz]

Hello,

   I first posted this question to a different thread but this seems like the more appropriate one.  Accordingly I have deleted the first post and have copied it here. 

  I've been having trouble implementing a Tasker Action as suggested in https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/doc/developer-api.  What I'm trying to do is trigger a small LED whenever the alarm goes off. I'm trying to follow the following example suggested in the developer API whereas I add the action to-

React on Sleep as Android events in Tasker
Misc -> Intent received

 and configure it to listen for the follow OUTPUT Intent com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START

which would then make an HTTP request based on the coffee maker example in APPReactor  http://appreactorandroid.blogspot.com/2012/02/sleep-as-android-cook-coffee-when-alarm.html

// Make a HTTP request after alarm starts, for example control your coffee machine

while (true) { waitForIntent(
waitForIntent("com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.ALARM_ALERT_START"); waitForConnectivity();
waitForConnectivity();
// Hook your coffee machine to this request :)
httpGet("http://mylocalserver/startcoffee"); }
}

 

Only instead of serviing "httpGet("http://mylocalserver/startcoffee");" it would trigger the LED via a REST Call on an Arduino Yun at "http://myArduinoYun.local/arduino/digital/13/1 : calls digitalWrite(13,1);"

However, at least in my version of Tasker there is no  Misc -> Intent received action available.  Instead, intents are accessed via  ACTION -> SYSTEM -> .  But when I open the path, I only see  ACTION -> SYSTEM -> SEND INTENT but there is no option for INTENT RECEIVED...  

  Furthermore, when I try activating the "Cook Coffee when Alarm Starts" app within APPREACTOR, with or without my edits, it returns an error message

REACTOR 

 

ParserException: Unknown token type MOD

 Am I missing something or has Tasker changed their interface since the SAA API was first written?

I should also mention that my ultimate goal was to activate the LED and a host of other actions (incl. various Smart Light Bulbs besides the Phillips HUE) via an MQTT Bridge, but I wanted to try an established method first.  Now it seems that the sample method doesn't work so perhaps others might suggest an alternate method?

It is very important that I be able to connect actions to Sleep as Android as I can't specify a specific wake up time like I would normally do with a conventional alarm.

PS-

 I also noticed that somebody had posted to the Tasker Developers forum about SAA Integration in 2012 but it appears many posts have been deleted.  The last post seems to imply Tasker functionality could be implemented through the creation of a third-party plugin-

> I am not affiliated with the developer, but I have spoken to him and told 
> him he could write a Locale plugin to have his app show up under "3rd Party 
> Plugins", he said he would put it on his to-do list. 

Ah, let's leave it at that then. 

There's some Tasker-specific plugin info you could pass along: 

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/plugins.html 

Pent

Has an SAA Tasker plugin been on the SAA "to-do" list since 2012? 

[Peter Scully]

On Friday, 21 November 2014 05:16:39 UTC+11, Andrew Jawitz wrote:

React on Sleep as Android events in Tasker
Misc -> Intent received

In my version of Tasker it's Event -> System -> Intent received.   The documentation needs updating.

Cheers,

Peter Scully.

[Petr Nalevka]

Petr replied Cc: mar...@stava.me Dec 1 15:48 Many thanks will do the update..

Thank you very much. Best regards,

Petr Nalevka Urbandroid Team Sleep as Android Googlegroup replied Cc: petr.n...@gmail.com, pe...@nalevka.com, sleep-as...@googlegroups.com Nov 29 1:12 > > >> *React on Sleep as Android events in Tasker*Misc -> Intent received

> > > In my version of Tasker it's Event -> System -> Intent received. The documentation needs updating. Cheers, Peter Scully.

-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Conversation started by Sleep as Android Googlegroup Cc: petr.n...@gmail.com, pe...@nalevka.com, sleep-as...@googlegroups.com Nov 20 19:16

Hello, I first posted this question to a different thread but this seems like the more appropriate one. Accordingly I have deleted the first post and have copied it here. I've been having trouble implementing a Tasker Action as suggested in https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/doc/developer-api. What I'm trying to do is trigger a small LED whenever the alarm goes off. I'm trying to follow the following example suggested in the developer API whereas I add the action to-

React on Sleep as Android events in Tasker Misc -> Intent received

-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

{#HS:56212226-3436#} Powered by Help Scout

[John Wohlers]

With tasker you will  need to use another app  like autoshare to allow tasker to react to broadcast intents. 

[Petr Nalevka]

Petr replied Dec 1 17:27 Is this some new thing in Tasker? I think AutoShare only makes it easier to setup what you can do already in tasker. We have an AutoShare profile already available form here http://joaoapps.com/autoshare/intents/. But in fact AutoShare does not receiving broadcasts only sending them.

Thank you very much. Best regards, Petr Nalevka Urbandroid Team

Sleep as Android Googlegroup replied

Cc: sleep-as...@googlegroups.com Dec 1 17:25

With tasker you will need to use another app like autoshare to allow tasker to react to broadcast intents.

Petr replied Cc: mar...@stava.me Dec 1 15:48 Many thanks will do the update.. Thank you very much. Best regards, Petr Nalevka Urbandroid Team

Sleep as Android Googlegroup replied Cc: petr.n...@gmail.com, pe...@nalevka.com, sleep-as...@googlegroups.com Nov 29 1:12

> > >> *React on Sleep as Android events in Tasker*Misc -> Intent received > > > In my version of Tasker it's Event -> System -> Intent received. The documentation needs updating. Cheers, Peter Scully.

-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sleep as Android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sleep-as-an-dr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Conversation started by Sleep as Android Googlegroup Cc: petr.n...@gmail.com, pe...@nalevka.com, sleep-as...@googlegroups.com Nov 20 19:16

[John Wohlers]

My mistake Petr.  They moved the event for receive intent in tasker.    It's  now  "event" -> "system " -> "intent received"
Auto share does allow for intent reception  as well.   I had found a forum post somewhere that implied auto share was now required.  It's not.

[Petr Nalevka]

Petr replied Dec 8 15:01 Many thanks I did correct the description.

Thank you very much. Best regards, Petr Nalevka Urbandroid Team

Sleep as Android Googlegroup replied Cc: sleep-as...@googlegroups.com

Dec 1 17:46

My mistake Petr. They moved the event for receive intent in tasker. It's now "event" -> "system " -> "intent received" Auto share does allow for intent reception as well. I had found a forum post somewhere that implied auto share was now required. It's not.

{#HS:56212226-3436#} This email has been limited to the 6 most recent threads. Powered by Help Scout