Battery/device temperature

[Duck Redbeard]

I have been participating in a thread for my Asus TF700 tablet regarding overclocking and device temperature.  Several people mentioned that when their device starts to run hot (from overclocking+heavy usage), they manually go into one of a few apps that govern CPU speed and throttle it back.  I saw that and thought "Surely Tasker can do that!"

I opened Tasker and looked for a state or event that monitored battery and/or device temperature.  I was surprised that there was none.  I know that Android will throw a "overheating" signal, but is there a numerical value to the device temp?

I have seen in Minimalistic Text that a battery temp can be displayed, so the value is in there somewhere.  Can Tasker set that as a variable?  

[nanobrain]

Event>Power>Battery Overheating

You can get the battery temperature by parsing the results of the 'dumpsys battery' shell command. You need to be rooted for this.  

[Duck Redbeard]

This parsing of results of shell commands is waaay above my head.  Is this the only way?

On Monday, August 26, 2013 8:47:01 AM UTC-4, Duck Redbeard wrote:

[Brandon Horwath]

I opened Tasker and looked for a state or event that monitored battery and/or device temperature. I was surprised that there was none.

I want to have quotes like this flash when I open tasker Google groups.

[nanobrain]

Look at this topic: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tasker/QzkM9oguqH4/discussion

[Dipesh adhikari]

Follow my Blog for that taskerbatterytemperature.blogspot.com

[Robert Ryan]

It might be easier to use the Battery Changed intent to get the battery temperature:

Profile: Battery Temp (61)
Event: Intent Received [ Action:android.intent.action.BATTERY_CHANGED Cat:None Cat:None Scheme:* Mime Type:* ]
Enter: Anon (68)
A1: Variable Set [ Name:%temp_c To:%temperature / 10 Do Maths:On Append:Off ]
A2: Variable Convert [ Name:%temp_c Function:Celsius to Fahrenheit Store Result In:%temp_f ]
A3: Variable Set [ Name:%temp_c To:round(%temp_c)  Do Maths:On Append:Off ]
A4: Variable Set [ Name:%temp_f To:round(%temp_f)  Do Maths:On Append:Off ]
A5: Flash [ Text:%temp_c° C
%temp_f ° F Long:Off ]