Can I use "My Places" to trigger a task?

[Keith]

I've turned on location services on my phone regardless of Tasker and created a Home and Work place based on wifi connections.  Now I'm starting to build profiles, and I'd like to trigger a task based on these locations being active.  I realise I can just have Tasker check the wifi connection, but it would be cleaner in my mind if I could trigger the task based on the location being active.

Is there a place in Tasker to access this state?  I am not talking about using Tasker's own location checker.  This should be just one of those system variables.  I haven't been able to hunt it down...is it in there somewhere?

Thanks.

[Brandon Horwath]

I think that would be something maps can determine alone.

I could be mistaken, but I suspect something like 'home address' would be something Google considers private, and probably difficult for another app to determine.

[Alex]

Do you mean something like this?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.autolocation.unlock

[Keith]

I didn't think it was relevant but perhaps I should specify that I'm on a Samsung phone.  On this phone, I have a setting called 'Location services'.  It contains a few relevant properties:

1. "Access to my location - allow apps that have asked your permission to use your location information"

2. My places:  save your favourite locations for use with services that require location information

Inside "My Places" I can determine how a location is identified.   It can be done using either GPS, Wifi connection, or Bluetooth connection.  I have "home" and "work" identified by specific wifi connections, and "Car" identified by a particular bluetooth connection.

I'd like to be able to access these places in Tasker and have it react to these locations.  But from yours and the next response, I'm realising that this must be something specific to Samsung devices...  Does that sound right to you?

Cheers.

[Keith]

Specifically not that one.  Thanks for responding, but no, not interested in using GPS for this...

[Brandon Horwath]

But from yours and the next response, I'm realising that this must be something specific to Samsung devices... Does that sound right to you?

I imagine so.

I don't see this option on an HTC or LG device I have.

[Matteo Badinelli]

Il giorno venerdì 16 maggio 2014 06:46:54 UTC+2, Keith ha scritto:

I didn't think it was relevant but perhaps I should specify that I'm on a Samsung phone.  On this phone, I have a setting called 'Location services'.  It contains a few relevant properties:

1. "Access to my location - allow apps that have asked your permission to use your location information"

2. My places:  save your favourite locations for use with services that require location information

Inside "My Places" I can determine how a location is identified.   It can be done using either GPS, Wifi connection, or Bluetooth connection.  I have "home" and "work" identified by specific wifi connections, and "Car" identified by a particular bluetooth connection.

I'd like to be able to access these places in Tasker and have it react to these locations.  But from yours and the next response, I'm realising that this must be something specific to Samsung devices...  Does that sound right to you?

Cheers.

You can't use "My places" but you can replicate the same functions in Takser, without using GPS, you have to use "Bt near" and "Wifi near" context. 

[Keith]

Ok.  Basically reproducing functions already in the phone.  And that's what I am doing now.  I have a profile that gets triggered when Wifi is connected to a particular network.  That's the same rule that the phone uses to determine my home or work locations are active.  Ok, thanks.  I might take this thought over to a Samsung specific forum and see if anyone else is using this location capability for anything. I didn't realise it was a Samsung feature when I first opened the discussion.  Bummer, but thanks for helping me come to that conclusion.

[John Doe]

And with this plug you can fully replace the hands free activation based on "car profile" in "my places" on a Samsung phone. I replaced Svoice with google now and I needed something like that:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balda.autohandsfree