Tasker recognize Google Voice SMS?

[Rae]

Hello,

I'm wading through all the copious options and trying to understand
all the Tasker does and get some profiles setup. I tried to setup the
SMS profile where you can send a text to your phone to trigger it
turning on the volume and ringing so you can find it but it didn't
work. I use GV exclusively on my phone for texting and if I
understand the future plans correctly, this isn't currently supported
in Tasker. Is this correct? I just want to know if it isn't possible
or if I've followed the setup directions incorrectly.

Thanks for such a magical program!

Rae

[Pent]

> I'm wading through all the copious options and trying to understand
> all the Tasker does and get some profiles setup.  I tried to setup the
> SMS profile where you can send a text to your phone to trigger it
> turning on the volume and ringing so you can find it but it didn't
> work.  I use GV exclusively on my phone for texting and if I
> understand the future plans correctly, this isn't currently supported
> in Tasker.  Is this correct?

I'm not sure. Are you trying to identify a particular sender ?
Try it with the sender field blank and flash up (Alert / Flash) %SMSRF
(the sender address) to see what you're getting when the SMS arrives.

Pent

[Rae]

EEEEKKKKK!! You just spoke a language that's totally foreign to me! I
think we'll have to give Tasker it's own language designation. LOL

I don't want it to be from any particular sender, I just want to be
able to send an SMS from anyone (so whichever person's phone is
closest at hand when I realize mine is missing :) ) to my phone and
have it turn on, max out the volume and start ringing so I can find it
if I leave it somewhere. My SMS is entirely via GV app rather than
standard messaging.

Do I want the "long press" default text left in the box when I make
the SMS rule? That's what I did before trying to follow the profile
walkthrough on the wiki. How do I do the flashup piece you mentioned
on who the SMS is from? I planned on a simple "word" like finddx or
ringdx sent via SMS to be what hopefully triggers the profile I
described above.

I hope some of that makes sense. Fab piece of software Pent. I'll
get the hang of it eventually. Thanks for being willing to help. :D

[Pent]

Hi Rae,

> EEEEKKKKK!!  You just spoke a language that's totally foreign to me! I
> think we'll have to give Tasker it's own language designation. LOL

Sorry, you get into a lingo after a while.

> I don't want it to be from any particular sender, I just want to be
> able to send an SMS from anyone (so whichever person's phone is
> closest at hand when I realize mine is missing :) )

Well that's should be easy. But you say that you havn't specified
a sender, and still nothing happens ? Does the SMS turn up in the
built-in messaging app ? Could you add your task the action
Alert / Flash HELLO and see if it flashes when an SMS arrives ?

> Do I want the "long press" default text left in the box when I make
> the SMS rule?  That's what I did before trying to follow the profile
> walkthrough on the wiki.  How do I do the flashup piece you mentioned
> on who the SMS is from?  I planned on a simple "word" like finddx or
> ringdx sent via SMS to be what hopefully triggers the profile I
> described above.

Ah, OK. Sender doesn't matter then, leave it blank.

Pent

[Slipshod]

Pent,

Google Voice uses it's own app to send/receive SMS messages, so they
don't show up in the normal Android Messaging app. They do generate a
notification though.... You'd have to add specific support for the
Google App, and I don't know if Google makes that easy.

My wife and I both use Google Voice exclusively for SMS (and voice
calls for that matter), so we'd also be interested in this. There are
quite a few "power users" I know using Google Voice for everything
since you can get unlimited free SMS and unlimited outgoing minutes
for free pretty easily.

[Decalex]

Any progress on this thread? I've recently transitioned to Google Voice as my only sms app -- and trying to find a way to have an sms produce a pop up (and preferably screen on).

[Pent]

> Any progress on this thread? I've recently transitioned to Google Voice as
> my only sms app -- and trying to find a way to have an sms produce a pop up
> (and preferably screen on).

I was hoping the GV plugin author would add polling at some point, but
thinking about it that would mean that it would trigger probably at
least a minute after the SMS was notified by GV, so not much use.

Have you tried detecting the notifications using Tasker's Notification
event ?

The problem is, there's no Google Voice API to query. Maybe there's a
DB lying around somewhere, but I don't know where.

Pent

[Decalex]

Hi Pent,

Maybe there's a DB lying around somewhere, but I don't know where.

The only relevant db I found is the shadowmappings.db, which basically contains the contacts' main number, along with the (shadow?) particular number that google to route the sms/call through.

Have you tried detecting the notifications using Tasker's Notification 
event ? 

Yes, I tried this yesterday:: using  an Event from the GV App, triggering a popup with %NTITLE,  and it works alright. My only issue is that the screen dims really low after popping up (same with all tasker popups.). Not sure why.

Is there a way to, upon clicking the popup, have that 'open' the notification? --or even just open Google Voice?

It would also be rad if I could get a contact photo in there :)

[Pent]

> Yes, I tried this yesterday:: using  an Event from the GV App, triggering a
> popup with %NTITLE,  and it works alright. My only issue is that the screen
> dims really low after popping up (same with all tasker popups.). Not sure
> why.
>
> Is there a way to, upon clicking the popup, have that 'open' the
> notification? --or even just open Google Voice?

Use a Task Names / Icons popup. You can do what you like with the
task.

> It would also be rad if I could get a contact photo in there :)

Harder :-)

Pent

[Decalex]

"Use a Task Names / Icons popup. You can do what you like with the task."

Cool, not sure how to do this. :) specifically, how to say, if I click the popup, launch Google voice. ?

[Walter Burton]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Decalex <alex.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Use a Task Names / Icons popup. You can do what you like with the task."
>
> Cool,  not sure how to do this. :) specifically, how to say, if I click the popup, launch Google voice. ?

Assign an icon to your tasks, then configure the popup action (in a
context-bound task, presumably) to reference those relevant tasks, and
when it's displayed, the task icons and task names will appear as
clickable options. I use this for confirmation dialogs. The "Yeah, go
do it" task is given a green check for an icon, and the "Cancel" task
is given a red X icon.

[Walter Burton]

I've got it working fine using the Notification event.

Something like this:
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Profile: GV SMS Cmds

Context 1: Notification->Owner App: Voice->Title: *sms*

Entry Task (1): "Tsk-Parse-SMS"
Action 1: Variable Split->Name: %NTITLE->Splitter: smspopup->If
%NTITLE ~ *smspopup*
Action 2: Variable Split->Name: %NTITLE->Splitter: smssnap->If %NTITLE
~ *smssnap*
Etcetera...

Entry Task (2): "Tsk-Exec-SMS"
Action 1: If->%NTITLE ~ *smspopup*
Action 2: Popup->Title: SMS Popup->Text: %NTITLE2
Action 3. End If
Action 4. If...
...
Action 7. End If
Action 8. Variable Clear->Name: %NTITLE1
Action 9. Variable Clear->Name: %NTITLE2
Action 9. Load App->App: Voice
Action 10: Wait->Seconds: 1
Action 11. Go Home

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

I've got this sort of profile set up on my son's Galaxy Tab, with a
bunch of SMS "commands" specifically configured to annoy him. :-)

[Decalex]

Haha, thats awesome. Thanks for posting this. :)