What's the most creative/unusual thing you've done with Tasker?

[dude]

For me it would be back when I needed to text my ride to come pick me up from work. I wasn't allowed to use a phone(risked being fired if caught with one out). I setup Tasker to count the number of times my display was turned on. After a certain number of times(10 or so), it would send a text to my ride saying "come pick me up now." So basically, what I did was reach into my pocket(without pulling out my phone) and press my power button over and over and over in my pocket. After 10 times it would vibrate to confirm success. Then, by the time I've packed up at work and walked out to the parking lot, my ride was waiting for me :D

[PitaStrudl]

Awesome :D

My creative thing is that i created a scene, on are about 20 buttons, each button handles packages(apps) with secure settings.

Tap enables them and long tap disables them, so i dont have issues about them draining my battery.

[Cptnodegard]

I don't know how creative it is but the Tasker setups I'm most proud of/was hardest:

*One that filters a author RSS feed (actually multiple) from wordpress to get URLs to posts and nothing more, splits it into one url per variable, checks if the url is already listed in a text file, and if not, adds it to the file. Does this for a couple of web pages automatically, and there's also a text input field for manual entries in a scene I use for settings, which is available anywhere in the OS via Wave Launcher. It also counts the number of URLs in the file and displays that in a widget. At the end of the month it creates a ------ separator line, counts the number of URLs, and adds that to an %Oldcount which then is subtracted from the widget number from there on out, so it always displays for that month only. It's a bit peculiar, but is beyond useful in my job as a tech writer, to help me keep track of how lazy I am. 

*Weather based WP. There's a wiki tutorial for this, but mine uses a different method, and I created all the wallpaper myself http://dl.dropbox.com/u/510000/weather-wallpaper.png

*Sleep mode activated by voice or pluggin in/out the AC adapter. I have the list of what it does somewhere else so I'll just paste that:

Sleep mode on:
*Say "Sleep mode activated. Good night" using text to speech
*Set display brightness to lowest value
*Set alarm volume to max
*Write "Andreas is sleeping" to a text file which is then synced to a public dropbox folder. This is my DIY social network that some friends and family can access
*Activate a call reject profile in Tasker that rejects call from certain people who tend to call at the wrong times, replies to them automatically using SMS
*Write "SM is on" to part of my DIY widget (made with Make Your Clock widget)
*Write the current time, in seconds, to a variable %Smactivated
*Append a text file called sleepmode.txt. The point is to make this file change slightly, so that Dropsync syncs it to dropbox, where it is then added to my computer Dropbox folder, where RoboTask detects a file change, and runs nircmd.exe with "monitor off" command to turn off my PC screens"
*Deactivate a profile which is too conplicated to explain in detail, but basically it runs every 2 hours and updates some work related things. This is deactivated when im not awake


Sleep mode off (exit task):
*Write "Andreas is home" to the "social network txt file"
*Change widget text to "LS %TIME", where %TIME is the time sleep mode was deactivated. LS meaning Last Slept. 
*Create a variable %Smduration which is (%Smactivation-%TIMES)/3600. In other words, how long slee mode was active for, in hours. 
*Create a variable %Lazy which contains the text "You lazy bastard" IF %Smduration is greater than 9 (if I slept more than 9 hours)
*Say "Good morning. You slept for %Smduration hours. %Lazy". The Variables with % in front of them are then replaced depending on how long I slept. Two possibilities would be "Good morning. You slept for 7.21 hours" and "Goo morning. You slept for 9.42 hours. You lazy bastard". The last part is added only when I sleep for more than 9 hours. 
*Run Astrid Filter Alert plugin for "Morning". This means that if I have any todo tasks marked "morning". it will notify me of them when i get up, not based on a time schedule. 
*Activate the 2 hour repeat profile for work. 
*Turn monitors back on using same method, different file to append.  

[Shaigan]

Your social sleepmode is just awesome !

[Cptnodegard]

Thank you! For the record, that's actually part of a more complex system. It also write "Is not home" with a time stamp when I leave the house (part of my Outside profile), changes that back when I come home, and has a special mode for when I'm at the movie theatre. That least one might seem a tad random, but I add these status messages as I make new Tasker profiles, meaning I don't make profiles for the sake of writing a status. Since it just overwrites the existing file it's very easy to add new ones. 

I've also experimented with a dialer that ties into this system. Once Pent finishes the Create App functionality of Tasker, I will export that system as an app for certain family members. What that app will do is add a shortcut to the desktop that when pressed pulls the info from the DIY social network into a scene, so that it e.g. says "Andreas has been sleeping since 01:30. Call him anyways?"

[Shaigan]

Wonderfull \o/

Did you ever though to include your tasks in an home automation system?

I'm using Tasker to send an http request to my micasaverde home automation box when I arrive ner home, to open the garage door and turn on the garage light. Then when my phone is connected on my wifi, it close the garage door and turn off the garage light :D

[Cptnodegard]

My "home" is a student apartment with rather few things to automate aside from shutting off my PC monitors... I have thought of doing something about the ceiling light, which would require having a device physically press the wall switch. Price is a major issue so I've had an idea to get a cheap old cellphone with a prepaid sim, take it apart, hook up a button switcher through a relay on the vibrate motor, and simply send that phone an sms to click the switch