Tasker can't see connected Bluetooth devices?

[Don Becker]

Background: Tasker 4.1u3m, Samsung Galaxy S4 running CM10.1.

I just purchased Tasker and am attempting to set up a profile that triggers when I connect to the Blackberry Music Gateway in my car. The steps I've taken:

• New / State / Net / Bluetooth Connected
  
• Name the State
• Address: click the search icon and pick the BBMG from the BT device list
• Add tasks

Unfortunately, once the BBMG connects to my phone, the profile never runs. The same holds true no matter what Bluetooth device I select; it connects, the OS can use it, but Tasker doesn't see it.

Thoughts?

--Don

[Pent]

Try blanking all the parameters in the BT connected state.

Work ?

Pent

[Pent]

And by 'profile never runs', do you mean the profile doesn't show up in Tasker's status bar pulldown
notification, or it does but the effects of the task aren't visible ?

Pent

[Don Becker]

The profile wouldn't show up in the pulldown. Of course, not 30 minutes after sending the original post it actually fired as normal on my drive to work. I can't say how long it took, because about 15 minutes into the commute this morning I looked down at my phone and noticed the icon change I had programmed into the Enter task.

I had deleted and recreated the profile, FWIW, but the tasks were still left over from my first attempt.

--Don

[Brandon Horwath]

Don,

Profile deletion will not remove tasks. Tasks will also not delete if referenced in a profile. The process for this is, delete profile, delete task.

For connecting with Bluetooth and tasker, I suggest trying Bluetooth AutoConnect by Jakub Klos. That free app has an option to run a tasker task when connected to a Bluetooth device also. And it is super useful to manage connection priority on multiple devices.

I mention this because in my discussions with Jakub, it was determined there is a bug with Samsung devices and recognizing MAC address Bluetooth connections quickly, and a part of his app includes a work-around for this when connecting to a Bluetooth device.

Your Rom may have some limitations with tasker also :-(

[Don Becker]

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 9:47:02 AM UTC-4, Brandon Horwath wrote:

Don,

Profile deletion will not remove tasks. Tasks will also not delete if referenced in a profile. The process for this is, delete profile, delete task.

So I noticed. That's fine - it saved me some work, since running the tasks manually worked perfectly.

 

For connecting with Bluetooth and tasker, I suggest trying Bluetooth AutoConnect by Jakub Klos. That free app has an option to run a tasker task when connected to a Bluetooth device also. And it is super useful to manage connection priority on multiple devices.

I mention this because in my discussions with Jakub, it was determined there is a bug with Samsung devices and recognizing MAC address Bluetooth connections quickly, and a part of his app includes a work-around for this when connecting to a Bluetooth device.

Your Rom may have some limitations with tasker also :-(

Thanks for the tip. Luckily, subsequent car trips have seen Tasker recognize the device right away, but if that changes I've got the app on my wishlist.