Minimalistic Text and Tasker

[Duck Redbeard]

Is there any guidance on how Tasker and Minimalistic Text can be used
together?

[Pent]

> Is there any guidance on how Tasker and Minimalistic Text can be used
> together?

I've just been talking to the dev in the dev forum and advised him to
create a Locale plugin. I was reluctant to put it in the 3rd Party
category since it's competing pretty strongly with the widget designer
I'll release shortly.

Pent

[Sean]

I love Minimalistic Text.  If you are designing a widget similar to that, count me in!  

[Pent]

> I love Minimalistic Text.  If you are designing a widget similar to that,
> count me in!  

I'm not designing a widget, I'm designing a widget designer :-)

Pent

[Sean]

Does it live and work on Android? 

[mwburden]

From the AppBrain page for Minamalistic Text:

Tasker integration:
1) add a Locale variable to your layout and set the variable name
(click it)
2) in Tasker select Plugins -> Minimalistic Text for an action
3) Click "Edit", a new activity starts
4) enter the name of the variable and the text that should be
displayed for this variable
done

[p v]

Is there a way to have the text be the contents of a Tasker variable?
I tried just putting the variable name %TIME as the text but that
didn't seem to work.

[fubaya]

Yes, I do this with the weather forecast. It's a little confusing
which variable to use because you're dealing with Tasker variables and
Minimalistic Text variables and it may not be clear which is which.

Here's a quick walkthrough of setting up the widget with a Tasker
variable, hope it helps.

I get the forecast into the Tasker variable %WX, then using the
Minimalistic Text plugin for Tasker, set

variable name: weather (this is the Minimalistic Text variable)
variable content: %WX (this is the Tasker variable)

When making the Minimalistic Text widget, go to "predefined layout"
and select "custom". Now click "custom layout" below "predefined
layout". Drag some or all of the black boxes to the bottom to get rid
of them and make room for your new text, click the green plus sign,
click "misc" then drag "locale variable" to the top. Now tap on it and
it will ask for a variable name. Use the same variable name as you
entered in the Tasker plugin, in my example, "weather."

[cruise]

"p v" <pvi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to have the text be the contents of a Tasker variable?
>I tried just putting the variable name %TIME as the text but that
>didn't seem to work.

Yup, I just got this working myself.

Under misc is a variable option - choose this and put the variable name ninus the % in the box.

Then in tasker, set up a profile triggered on variable set, and choose the variable you want.

In the associated task, under plugins there's an option for minimalistic text variable, and in the options for that set the value to the tasker variable (with the % this time).

The next time the variable changes, minimalistic text will show the value.

Hope that helps.

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[Sean]

Ahh, got it working. Excuse the crude language:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11521113/CAP201101130911.png

Data pulled from this site: http://www.thefuckingweather.com/

On Jan 9, 9:01 am, cruise <cru...@casual-tempest.net> wrote:

> "p v" <pvin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Is there a way to have the text be the contents of a Tasker variable?
> >I tried just putting the variable name %TIME as the text but that
> >didn't seem to work.
>
> Yup, I just got this working myself.
>
> Under misc is a variable option - choose this and put the variable name ninus the % in the box.
>
> Then in tasker, set up a profile triggered on variable set, and choose the variable you want.
>

> In the associated task, under plugins there's an option forminimalistictext variable, and in the options for that set the value to the tasker variable (with the % this time).
>
> The next time the variable changes,minimalistictext will show the value.

[Sean]

Per a request here is the tasker setup I used:

1. HTTP Get
Server:Port www.thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=yourzipcodehere
2. Variable Split
Name %HTTPD Splitter<div
3. Variable Split
Name %HTTPD4 Splitter >
4. Variable Split
Name %HTTPD44 Splitter<
5. Variable Set
Name %WEATHER To %HTTPD441
6. Minimalistic Text variable settings
Configuration WEATHER=%WEATHER

Then set up a "locale variable" text box in Minimalistic Widget.  The first three text lines in the first widget are all Minimalistic Widget.  The second is Beautiful Widget (4x1).  The third is Clarus Battery.

Thanks Pent, for such a versatile tool!  I look forward to every upgrade as I know to expect a ton of goodies.  No other app dev improves their app to that extent.

[mwburden]

That's awesome!

I'm guessing that the zip code that you gave TFW is not the same one
you used for Beautiful Widget and Clarus Battery?
(Either that, or one of them is *WAY* off on the temp!)

[Sean]

The Clarus Battery temp refers to the battery temp.  :)

[fubaya]

Heh, good find, this was a hit at work today. I have a script to get the weather every hour with Locale Execute Plugin and have Tasker update the widgets at 5 past the hour. Everyone keeps bugging me to see my phone to see what the weather will be, so I added this to the script when I saw the post this morning:

wget -q 'http://www.thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=ZIP' -O - | grep -A 3 CITY | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' -e 's/&deg;/ degrees/g' > /sdcard/FILE

Change ZIP, CITY and FILE, then have Tasker read the info from the file. It gives all four lines, if you don't want the city, change "grep -A 3 CITY" to "grep -A 2 deg":

City, State
22 degrees?!
ITS F****** COLD
Even penguins are wearing jackets.

It cracked up the first person to ask the weather today.

[jeff giesbrecht]

Thanks for the ouline Sean.

I'm wondering what is the content you are using to execute the tasks? I'm still leaning tasker and how to get it to initiate methods like this.

- jeff

[Sean]

The context is Time 8am, repeating every hour.  The tricky part is scraping the data from the site as there is no api/xml data available.  And I've since discovered that there are enough discrepancies in how the data is displayed depending on the current conditions, that my method as described won't result in a fully accurate reading.

It's probably better to incorporate an sl4a script or locale script as fubaya has done above.

Good luck!

[3Shirts]

Sean, I'm trying your tasker setup but the variable set just seems to
be setting %WEATHER to the literal string %HTTPD441. I'm a bit
confused as to what to do.

Thanks

On Jan 13, 8:26 pm, Sean <sean.farr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Per a request here is the tasker setup I used:
>
> 1. HTTP Get

> Server:Portwww.thefuckingweather.com/?zipcode=yourzipcodehere<http://www.the_weather.com/?zipcode=myzipcode>

[ryan garis]

I'm having this problem as well. I recall getting it to work maybe a
month ago, but now it's no longer accepting talker variables. Was it
broken in a recent update?

[ludwig]

I prefer using pent's app zoom beta!
you can much more do with this, e.g. execute a task by clicking on the
widget!

[Sean]

I haven't used this profile or minimalminimalistic text widget in a while. If I were to try this again I would try using zoom. It's still in alpha so it's a little rough around the edges but it's shaping up to be quite powerful.

[Bob Loblaw]

Seems like overkill to http get the weather now that MT includes the weather. But using the embedded mt variables for its weather is another story. Anyone know the answer?

[Riley Washington]

I figured out some time ago...still wrapping my head around variable but loving the app and all of the support in the forums..

[Bob Loblaw]

cool name.