![]() For on, you select the ‘if’ box again and set it to “%AWAY” “Maths: Equal” “1”. Now, if you want to know if your switch is on or off, you can add some new tasks:ĭo the above twice, and title them something indicative of On and Off. You’ve just created an “ON/OFF” switch that does nothing – feels good, doesn’t it? In the variable box put “%AWAY”, click the middle button and select “Maths: Greater than”, and type “1” in the final box. Next, you’ll set the variable %AWAY to 0 if it goes above 1: You’ll leave the slider set to 1, and in the variable name menu (the box with the “%” in it), you’ll put something like “%AWAY”. Your fist task will be to increment a variable: Scroll down until you locate the Tasker widget – this will open a new context menu. You’ll be selecting “Widget” from the menu that pops up. You say you want a widget to turn on/off away notifications? I can help!įirst, long click on an empty spot on one of your home screens. Variable > Variable Randomize > %VARIABLE from 0 to MAX When you click done, you’ll have a profile set up that will randomly select one of your ringtones and play it when you receive an SMS. Now Tasker will notify you of incoming SMS messages – but you’ll want to disable notifications in your other messaging apps, to make sure that there’s no conflict. Next, so that we can hear ringtones, create a new action as so:Īgain, leave all the fields blank. I just titled the notification SMS – seemed easiest. Leave all the fields (except the title) blank. Create a new action, and click through the following: Next, we need to make sure that Tasker is the program that is notifying you of your incoming SMS message – we want all our hard work to pay off. As in our previous example, if you have 15 ringtones, you’ll type 14 into the maximum field. For the minimum value, we’ll type in 0, and for the maximum, use the last number you used for a ringtone. Here, we’ll see the familiar “%” sign – we’ll continue to use “%TEXT”. You’ll create a new action, so click the blue “+” sign. Now that you’ve got all of your ringtones set, you’ll want to make it so that the system knows to switch randomly between them. For example, if you have 15 ringtones, your final value will be 14. Every time you add a new ringtone, add one to that value – the first ringtone will be 0, the second will be 1, the third 2, and so on. Now, you’re going to repeat this for every ringtone you have, step for step – except for that last text box. In the last text box, enter a value of 0. ![]() Next, click the box that has the “~” in between the two text boxes. It should now say “%TEXT” in this box – DO NOT DELETE THE %. In the field that has a “%” symbol already in it, you’ll want to type “TEXT”. Then you’ll long-click the field marked “Sound” – here, select whatever ringtone you wish. The dropdown menu here defaults to “Alarm” – click here and change to “Notification”. ![]() For this, you’ll want to click the following: This brings up the Action Category screen. To add a new action, click the blue “+” sign at the bottom of your screen. We want to fill this up with actions for the phone to take, so that something actually happens. This means that any actions you set in this profile will occur whenever you receive an SMS message, no matter who it’s from or what the message says. I’ll be walking you through how to set up Notification tones, as I haven’t bothered with ringtones yet.įirst, you need to open up Tasker and hit the "New" button at the bottom. This can save you the aggravation of hearing the same ringtone 50 times in a 5 minute period (yes, so could vibrate, but I'm stubborn), and if you've downloaded a number of ringtones, now you get to hear them all! Hooray! The gist is that every time you get a phone call (or text, or even an alarm) you can change what the next ringtone will be. This one is (relatively) simple if you have any programming chops, and should be pretty easy to follow even if you don't. Feel free to add any other useful profiles you've created. Below are a few of the things I've done with it, and how to do them yourself. Every time I open this app to play with it, I'm amazed at what it can do.
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