Silent Mode WhiteList

[Andy]

At night between 2100 and 0730 when my phone is plugged in and is
oriented face up my phone goes into "sleepmode" - basically silent
mode for notifications and incoming calls.

Task
1: Silent Mode - On
2: Variable Set - %SLEEPMODE to 1
3: Profile Status - Sleeping Txt set to ON (this sends an SMS to the
person who texts me when I am in sleepmode)
4: Profile Status - WHITELIST call set to ON (for phone calls)
5: Profile Status - WHITELIST text set to ON (for texts)

This works like a charm. However, my problem is in my Whitelist (break
through numbers - or emergency contacts)
the phone ringing part works fine but the texting doesn't seem to
work. Here is my task for these - they are identical as the
breakthrough text only belongs to my wife. don't want anyone people on
the phone call list to wake me up with unimportant texts.

Condition- Received Text - 'the people i want to be able to break
through' or just my wife's number

Tasks:

1: IF %SLEEPMODE = 1
2: Notification Volume level 5 - didn't have this originally but it
wasn't beeping on the first text, so i tried this.
3: Silent Mode OFF
4: Wait 45seconds (this is because the SMS sent out tells the person
if it is urgent that my phone volume is up for 45 seconds)
5: Silent Mode ON
6: End IF

This works great for incoming calls. The numbers that aren't on the
list don't ring and the ones i have on the list do ring. but the SMS
doesn't have the same effect. The delay works turning the Silent Mode
off causing the next incoming txt to beep. But the inital text doesn't
make any notification sound. It seems as though the notification sound
file isn't waiting for the "silent mode" to turn off.

Something isn't right here. The task is the same for the call
whitelist and the text whitelist...is this my issue? should there be
some sort of different task?

Thanks.

[BossMan]

Hi Andy,

from my experience with Received Text, it seems that Tasker is not quick enough to intercept the "received text" event before the sms client does. This means that once your profile is triggered, the text has already arrived in your textbox or is just arriving, and it will not use the settings you're just changing as it has already "happened".
So, I think the easiest way would be to leave it as is and do not rely on the phone's notification and instead play your own. You can use at least two actions for this: Alert->Notification sound (plays notification sound by default) or even simpler, Media->Play Ringtone.

BR,
A.