Manipulating & Sending Group Texts

[Stupifier]

Does anybody know of a way for Tasker to deal with Group Texts? Mainly, I'd like to parse information from a received Group Text...then Send a reply to the Group as well.  I have not seen any information about this around these forums or elsewhere on the internet

[Stupifier]

I know upon receiving a Group Text (MMS)....Tasker still parses The Text Body and Text From fields.....but Tasker ultimately fails to understand that the text is a GROUP text. So when sending any type of Reply Text, it will not be sent to the Group but only the Individual. Anyone got any bright ideas on this? Or is there an awesome Group Text Tasker plugin out there? AutoText app or something LOL

[Stupifier]

Thought I'd ask if anyone has discovered any bright ideas on this. I feel it is a pretty big weakness that Tasker cannot handle Group Texts. There has to be some solution out there (plugin, intent, activity, etc).

[Stupifier]

Figured out a Workaround to sending Group/Threaded Texts with Tasker. There is a Send Intent action for texts which allows you to insert multiple comma-separated phone numbers in the 'Data' field. Once you run that Intent, it will activate your Text App and populate Recipients with all of the phone numbers you gave. There is also a field on the Intent action for the text message body. After that, you just need AutoInput to press the "send" button on your text message.

Group/Threaded Texts with Tasker solved. This will allow you to send real group/threaded texts with Tasker.....not just sending the same message to each individual Recipient.

Use the following Send Intent action.

Action: android intent action.VIEW

Data: sms:[insert comma separated phone numbers here]

Extra: sms_body:[insert body of text message]

Target: Activity

[Jeremy Harris]

Nice work. Can you explain how you're detecting all the phone numbers from the received group text message since %SMSRF will still only contain one number?

[Stupifier]

Short Story...Used AutoNotification and AutoContacts.

1. My text message app (Textra) gives a notification when I receive a text message.

2. Setup Autonotification to intercept that notification.

3. %antitlebig from Autonotification will contain a comma-separated list of contact names associated with the Group Text Message. I'm almost certain other text message apps will also contain all the contact names associated to the group text in the notification.

4. Use Autocontacts to translate those Names into their respective phone numbers.

I'm skipping all the gory Tasker details here.....I obviously set up some slightly sophisticated For Loops and Arrays to process all of this automatically.

The end result of all of this is a FULLY FUNCTIONAL Tasker Text Message notification/reply.....none of this "Group/Thread Texts are not supported" crap.

[Jeremy Harris]

Excellent, thanks!  Short story is good enough, I'm experienced enough to take it from there. Thanks again!

[James Metcalfe]

Are you able to export this project or key tasks for this? I'm a moderate tasker user and understand what you're doing with this, but not sure I'd be able to entirely implement it on my own. However I would be able to adapt your project to suit my own needs if you are okay with sharing your hard work.

[Elrond Hubbard]

Hi !

I realize this thread is a few years old now, but I just recently stumbled upon Tasker. I successfully added a profile and action that will auto respond with a custom message to any text that starts w a specific word, but this doesn't work in group texts. 

The solution here seems like it's exactly what I need, but I do not understand how to setup the Send Intent Action  + Autonotification to capture all phone numbers in the group text and insert them into the Data field.  

Can someone (anyone) please break it down, step by step? 

Thank you!

[Rich D]

I do not think either of those guys are still hanging out on this forum. However you can find stupifier over on Reddit.. 

[Jeremy Harris]

Merry Christmas RichD! 

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 2:48 PM Rich D <ricp...@gmail.com> wrote:

I do not think either of those guys are still hanging out on this forum. However you can find stupifier over on Reddit.. 

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[Rich D]

Merry Christmas RichD! 

Well..... Merry Christmas Jeremy.  Nice to see not every one has abandoned this forum.. :)

I don't suppose you still have this project in question any where ??