r/tasker

▲ 3 r/tasker+1 crossposts

Has anyone used Tasker for data collection/alerts at work?

For context, I am a PhD student. I am working on a project involving urine and RNA (not important) and I need to collect urine from multiple people. This will involve setting up a station outside department washrooms (across several floors so I can't keep an eye out) for people to grab urine containers and place on ice after they're done. I want to be alerted when someone places their sample on ice so I can go collect them, and I thought of using an NFC tag that people can tap with their phone.

It seems straightforward, but has anyone done it before? Any pitfalls I am not considering?

u/stillpartofthisworld — 6 hours ago

[Question] discussion: Anyone is able to successfully use Tasker, Automate or MacroDroid with Adb elpfor System, Secure or Global settings value changes?

I use Poco X4 pro and the display on it has weird backlight bleed issue that's visible on low brightness dark images and it is just obvious "pixels don't turn off completely on black content" situation. So there is this "display_color_mode" setting like you find in setedit app and choosing it's value to 0 eliminates that backlight bleed issue at dark content, completely turning off pixels, but screen lock and unlock, turning off screen situations revert it and i wanted to make a automated task to change it to 0 every time i unlock phone, but it is not working, when i press launch, it is stopping immediately. How to make it work?apollo12

u/IndividualStreet6997 — 23 hours ago

Everything is gone!

I went into Tasker just now to resume working on a task I'd been working on and got a pop-up that reads:

"You don't have any profiles yet, so Tasker won't do anything automatically."

And the message is correct: my profiles and everything else are gone.

I'm running 6.7.6-beta.

Checking the runlog, I see that the last time any of my tasks ran was at 21.48.10 this evening (07/05/26), with no further entries until I came back and discovered the problem at 00.38.27 (07/06/26).

I don't know if they are related, but I'd received a couple of notifications that Tasker was out of memory over the last several days.

EDIT: Don't know if it's related, but on 6/26/26, I had a problem where even after tapping the "Save & Apply" tab, exiting Tasker, and getting back in, Tasker ran an earlier version of a Task I'd been working on. Only after exporting, deleting, and importing the project the task was in was I able to run the updated version I had saved.

Arghhh!

u/JD_Number_6 — 1 day ago

Create a task to close an app whenever it opens?

Hey y'all! I seem to remember tasker being at lot easier to use before when I used it a couple years ago but now I'm really struggling with it. I'm sick of apps opening the Google play store without my concent every time they play a damn ad. So I thought it'd be relatively easy to make a task that's basically "if Google play is open, close google play" but I can't seem to figure it out at all. There's "if google play *variable*" but I don't know what number constitutes "is open". Also whenever I set it to use the kill app task it says it needs ADB Wifi but all the instructions are for setting that up on your computer, none of them give instructions for setting that up on your phone so I'm totally in the dark.

Note: Please keep in mind I've done very little with tasker before and it seemed very easy at the time so I may need to be walked through like baby.

u/HyperMushrambo — 1 day ago

Struggling to get AND/OR and the AND+/OR+ precedence working correctly.

My task gets the status of inside and outside temperatures.

This is what I want to accomplish:

If both or either of the temperatures are 0 (sensor takes a short time to wake up), and temperature scale is C, then loop back to the action to get the states (which refreshes) again, adding 1 to the attempt counter.

Keep doing this until both temperatures are not 0. Stop the loop if attempts = 5, so it doesn't go on infinitely. (The same IF statement is copied and pasted below this one in the task, but if the temperature scale is F, then it checks for 32 instead of 0.)

The flow is:

Get the states.
Add 1 to the attempt counter.
Check if the info is valid.
If all okay, carry on, if not, loop back and try again.

I have tried:

IF %inside_temp = 0
OR+ %outside_temp = 0
AND %attempts < 5
AND %temperature_units ~ C
GOTO Label Status

Tried this:

IF %attempts < 0
AND %temperature_units ~ C
AND %inside_temp = 0
OR+ %attempts < 5
AND %temperature_units ~ C
AND %outside_temp = 0
GOTO Label Status

Tried this:

IF %inside_temp = 0
AND+
%outside_temp = 0
AND %attempts < 5
AND %temperature_units ~ C
GOTO Label Status

Tried this:

IF %attempts < 5
AND
%temperature_units ~ C
AND
%inside_temp = 0
OR
%outside_temp = 0
GOTO Label Status

Tried this:

IF %attempts < 5
AND
%temperature_units ~ C
AND+
%inside_temp = 0
OR
%outside_temp = 0
GOTO Label Status

Sometimes, one of the temps is 0 and the task continues. Sometimes both temps are non 0 (what I want...success!) but it loops back to do it again, which doesn't make sense.

What's the correct way to get this working?

u/iconb0y — 1 day ago

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Let LLMs control Android apps in the background – open-source project, no root required

I built an open-source prototype that connects LLMs (via OpenAI-compatible APIs) to real Android apps – and it runs completely in the background.

The AI doesn’t just generate text – it actually does things: tap, type, scroll, long-press, copy/paste, go back. It’s like giving an LLM a phone to use, but on a virtual screen that doesn’t interfere with what you’re doing on your physical phone.

Key bits:

· Works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint that supports streaming + tool calls

· The model receives UI node trees (or OCR results) and responds with tool calls

· All actions are executed on the virtual display – not your main screen

· Runs on any Android 10+ device – no root, no special hardware

If you’ve been wanting to experiment with phone-controlling agents but didn’t want to buy a dedicated device, this might be useful.

GitHub: https://github.com/android-notes/ShadowAuto

Demo video: https://github.com/android-notes/ShadowAuto/blob/main/shadowauto.mp4

Happy to discuss the architecture – the VirtualDisplay setup, the tool-call loop, OCR fallback, etc. Let me know what you think!

u/Legal-System-1617 — 1 day ago

Passing json in perform task

I have a json variable which I can parse using variable.fieldname. If I pass this as a parameter in perform task then the same syntax returns the entire json variable. e.g. %par1.title gives me the entire contents of par1 not just the title.

Being able to pass a parameter as json would be very useful.

u/fishofchaos — 2 days ago

Can't capture long-clicks of navigation buttons in Android 17

By navigation buttons I mean the Home, Recents, and Back buttons.

I have several profiles that use a long-click of a navigation button as trigger. Since updating to Android 17 these profiles no longer trigger.

Long-clicks on other screen buttons are detected correctly by Tasker.

Does anyone know of a workaround to get the old behavior back?

u/rbrtryn — 2 days ago

Lazyweb: anybody got a circular countdown timer scene?

I haven't quite gotten around to deep dive into Scenes V2, but I really need a (customizable, Tasker controllable) circular countdown timer sooner rather than later. Anybody happen to have one they would be willing to share?

u/Exciting-Compote5680 — 2 days ago

▲ 74 r/tasker

[DEV] Tasker 6.7.6-beta - Inline Projects in New UI, Scenes V2 Update 5, New Runlog Screen and more!

Sign up for the beta and download from Google Play here.

Note: Google Play might take a while to update. If you don’t want to wait for the Google Play update, get it right away here. (Direct-Purchase Version here). App Factory Update here.

Inline Projects in Main UI

Demo: https://youtu.be/eE8wFbpY4w0

https://preview.redd.it/3pwu4r4optah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=51b0d674fb8d15d9bf8283d880744b523eb82dd6

I'm giving another concept a try: instead of having a sidebar with projects, how about putting them inline directly?

When you go in and out of a project you see this:

https://preview.redd.it/5ufucf18qtah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=1881c822702f367eaba07b7dfc7b1e764a33d7f2

As you can see, you have the 3 familiar tabs (Profiles/Tasks/Scenes). You can select multiple at the same time like you see on the screen, or you can select one at a time to just see those types of items.

Projects are automatically color coded based on the project's icon. Here's a project with a green icon:

https://preview.redd.it/9mo8egeistah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2a7f766052cfa27ca1ded3bb47eb408c2531a25

As you can see it tints the whole UI based on the color of the icon.

Let me know how you like this variant of the UI.

I'm also thinking of trying yet another version where there are no tabs inside a project and instead they are in collapsible groups, kinda like this:

https://preview.redd.it/sk0r6um0rtah1.png?width=380&format=png&auto=webp&s=48bacb01f60625819c1809d7381e49053ebe5cd2

If you can, try out the inline projects variant and let me know which of the 3 variants makes the most sense to you and why :)

New Runlog Screen

Demo: https://youtu.be/ZGTqMmcB76U

The Runlog screen now looks like this:

https://preview.redd.it/cjhkna39stah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=bf651d4e556e3f039310021dbdb9fa629f41469b

It can also look like this when collapsed:

https://preview.redd.it/vji2i3agstah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cf0fa32df3ed940dd6f0d37bc4eb7043c9e304f

The functionality of the runlog screen remains the same as before but it has a much cleaner and easy to follow UI. You can clearly see where a task starts and ends and follow its actions visually and see which ones succeeded and which failed.

Material Symbols

Demo: https://youtu.be/vC3BEJThwnM

https://preview.redd.it/hmrc5x8dttah1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea49bc0a771ac551e5610f94f1122634ce406a24

Material Symbols are a icon font that can be adapted into different situations. For example, they can represent state where the otline variant represents an inactive state and the filled variant represesnts the active state

These can be used in their configurable form, where you manually specify a bunch of their attributes (like in the Notify action), or in their automatic form where their configuration is automatically set (like in the Set up Quick Setting Tile action where the icon is filled or outlined depending on the QS Tile state).

In the legacy UI, if you give a Project one of these icons, it'll also change from outline to filled depending if the project is selected or not.

Scenes V2 Updates

Demo: https://youtu.be/ud9YgZd1L2E

Scenes V2 Arrays Merge Template

It's now super easy to put your Tasker arrays into scenes with the new Arrays Merge Template element.

In this example, I would have 2 arrays:

%icon
%item

each with their corresponding icon images and labels. With this simple component...

https://preview.redd.it/v21jttafutah1.png?width=264&format=png&auto=webp&s=969d8c40f2aaa2c1cd2d79a8e8809cc2fa955a17

...I can expand those 2 arrays together into a list of rows dynamically built from those arrays!

Saved Component Templates

You can now long click any element on the tree and save it as a Component Template with a name and description. Then you can simply insert it into your tree like any other component. :)

https://preview.redd.it/gkg07yvtutah1.png?width=183&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbfc60aabe020a834250c0ddc9260d45e8c9dadc

Show When Animations

When a component has its Show When field set, you can now set animations that define how that component shows up and goes away. You can choose various types of animations.

For example, by combining a dark transparent background that fades in with a dialog that slides up, you can create an Android-like popup dialog!

SVG Crop

You can now crop any element in a Scene with an SVG. And it's not only a visual crop, it's a functional one too! For example, you can create a button like this

https://preview.redd.it/b7j982hhvtah1.png?width=242&format=png&auto=webp&s=58f18d75d7f7f383feeabd9f7764edc4ec3bd9d2

and when you click anywhere where it's white, the button won't be triggered! You really have to press the green part for it to register the click! This allows you to create UIs in any shape imaginable that behave like you expect it to!

WebView

Webviews can now call many, many Tasker actions via JavaScript. You can use await to wait for them to finish, so you can easily call multiple actions in a row in a controlled fashion!

Here's a simple example of doing 3 actions in a row:

await Tasker.flash({ text: 'Step 1' });
await Tasker.vibrate({ time: 300 });
await Tasker.flash({ text: 'Step 2' });

You can now also make WebView html elements be draggable by using one of 3 simple css tags:

tasker-drag-handle
tasker-drag-handle-x
tasker-drag-handle-y

This makes elements be drag handles in all directions or just horizontally or just vertically.

Full Changelog

Major Scenes V2: Added the "Arrays Merge Template" component, a built-in way to handle Tasker array merging to build sub-components.
Major Scenes V2: Components can now animate in and out (Fade, Scale, Slide or Expand) whenever their "Show When" condition toggles their visibility.
Major Scenes V2: WebViews can now call many Tasker actions directly from JavaScript via the Tasker.* bridge.
Major Scenes V2: An HTML element inside a WebView can act as a drag handle to move the overlay it lives in.
Major Scenes V2: You can now save a component as a template to easily reuse it across your scenes.
Major Scenes V2: You can now crop any component to the shape of an SVG file.
Major Scenes V2: Added the "Trigger Scene V2 Event" Tasker action.
Medium Scenes V2: Added "matches" (Tasker pattern matching) and "matchesr" (regex matching) expressions to the "Show When" and "Apply When" fields.
Medium Scenes V2: Added a "Variable Clear" event action.
Medium Scenes V2: The Switch component now has a Thumb slot so you can set an image in the switch's thumb and you can also select different colors for different parts of it.
Medium Scenes V2: WebViews now receive the full Material 3 color palette (primary, secondary, surface, etc.) so your HTML can match the app theme.
Minor Scenes V2: The task name field in Events -> Run Task now follows the same caps rules as other task name fields.
Minor Scenes V2: When creating a task with a name, use the same "first letter of each word uppercase" rule as elsewhere in the app.
Fix Scenes V2: components that have indexes are now 1-based instead of 0-based
Fix Scenes V2: fixed "Screen Hidden" event not firing in certain situations
Fix Scenes V2: fixed background of invisible component wrongly showing
Fix Scenes V2: fixed crash when picking a variable if the user has tens of thousands of variables
Fix Scenes V2: fixed crash when using a slider in some situations
Fix Scenes V2: fixed images filling their container by default when they shouldn't
Fix Scenes V2: fixed images not loading if they had hidden spaces before or after the file name
Fix Scenes V2: fixed multiline input text box not filling the full vertical space it needed
Fix Scenes V2: fixed setting a variable in a WebView affecting a variable used in a separate component on the same screen
Fix Scenes V2: fixed some things not working when showing through the "SCENES" tab or the new UI
Fix Scenes V2: fixed updating a variable array in a scene leaving old elements there
Fix Scenes V2: fixed using two "Overlay With Result" scenes in a row with the same id ending the second one prematurely
Fix Scenes V2: segmented buttons that are "gone" now behave as expected
Fix Scenes V2: WebView now uses the correct system theme (dark/light)
Fix Scenes V2: when a task is renamed, all the task references in Scenes V2 are updated with the new name
Major New UI: Redesigned the RunLog screen to make it more readable.
Major New UI: Added a setting to show projects as items in the main list instead of the sidebar, including sorting them and creating new projects from the NEW FAB.
Major New UI: Project icons based on apps now use the app background in a folder shape with the foreground on top.
Major New UI: Inside a project you can select several of the Profiles/Tasks/Scenes tabs at once, so the list shows all their items together.
Medium New UI: The Project enabled/disabled toggle now works, and profiles in a disabled project show as paused on their switches.
Minor New UI: Added an icon to scenes so they're more easily distinguished.
Minor New UI: Added an option to hide the sidebar when collapsed.
Minor New UI: Added an option to not show the All button when there are projects other than the default one.
Minor New UI: Don't confirm project deletion if it's empty.
Minor New UI: In the task edit screen, moved the search bar to the bottom when adding a new action.
Minor New UI: Made sorting smarter, showing you the items you expect more often.
Minor New UI: Show full names of items in the main list instead of truncating them.
Minor New UI: Show project names instead of just initials when the sidebar is collapsed.
Minor New UI: Updated "Last run" to "Activity".
Minor New UI: When creating a task with a name, use the same "first letter of each word uppercase" rule as the main screen.
Minor New UI: When editing a task, after expanding a text field, allow the editor to show more lines so it's easier to edit larger pieces of text.
Fix New UI: don't show the pending changes banner when exiting the scene editor without saving
Fix New UI: fixed all projects with app icons showing with the same icon
Fix New UI: fixed always scrolling to the profiles when exiting a project
Fix New UI: fixed bottom sheet flickering when deleting a project
Fix New UI: fixed project search box cursor color in dark mode
Fix New UI: fixed search for actions when adding a new action
Fix New UI: fixed some app icons not loading properly
Fix New UI: fixed tag selector bottom sheet moving too far up when the keyboard is showing
Major Added Material Symbols to the app, a large icon set you can now use across Tasker for things like project and task icons, and also Notify action and Quick Setting Tiles action.
Medium Added Run Shell related functions to the Java Code action.
Medium Added tasker.getImageBuffer() and tasker.hasImageBuffer() to the Java Code action.
Medium The "Multiple Variables Set" action can now write JSON.
Medium You can now override the app name when generating an app from Tasker.
Minor Added a "Continue Task Immediately" option to the "Widget V2" action.
Minor Tasker automatically saves your setup before entering the AI screen in the legacy UI so you don't lose changes made in the meantime.
Minor Added a language selector to the first screen shown when you first open the app.
Minor Added a "Separator" option to the "Widget V2" action to configure the separator for its various list fields.
Minor Changed the order of the "Set up Quick Setting Tile" action to make it more logical and easier to use.
Fix Attempted again to fix a crash that only appears in app factory apps
Fix crash where in rare situations projects could end up with the same ids
Fixed DND action so that it can't be overrun by Silent/Vibrate
Fixed image in "Text/Image Dialog" action sometimes being hidden by text that is too long
Fixed issue where running many remote actions in quick succession could cause some of them to not run on the receiving device
Fix issue where sometimes a profile doesn't save its state after saving Tasker's setup
Fixed issue where sometimes the QS Tile wouldn't dismiss the notification shade
Fixed profiles (e.g. Wifi Connected) sometimes running their exit tasks when exiting Tasker's Preferences screen
Fixed Shizuku breaking clipboard monitoring
Fixed showing the number of actions over 100 in the legacy UI
Fixed situation where receive intent could be triggered twice with just 1 intent
Fixed some error messages when wrongfully using JSON writing
Fix Tried fixing a rare crash that can occur when editing legacy scenes
Fix Tried to fix issue where wait action becomes stuck in some circumstances
Fix Tried to fix rare situations where Tasker would get stuck not accepting any new tasks (sometimes related with the HTTP Request action)
Fixed updating Quick Setting Tiles on global variable changes to only happen when the variable isn't a built-in variable
Fixed writing JSON to project/profile/task variables with native Tasker JSON writing
Fixed some crashes

If you can, let me know what you think about the Projects in Sidebar vs Inline vs Collapsible! Thank you!

u/joaomgcd — 5 days ago

App Profile - but only for a specific Activity showing/destroyed?

Is this possible? Thanks for any suggestion.

u/TooManyInsults — 3 days ago

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r/tasker now supports images and videos, Show your scene or any interface you make with Tasker!

As title suggested, show the community the scene you make with Tasker. Can be anything, old scene, widget, scene V2 or even Java code!

Let us know the context behind them too!

I start first myself.

Here's one project that I have been working on recently. A gesture project with Java, the UI lemme configure the configuration required. Video in the comments. since Joao hasn't activated embed videos yet in the body post. He confirmed he'd do so sooner here.

Context

I created this since Poco (Xiaomi) won't let its user use native gesture if 3rd party launcher is used. The app I use to replace it has some mildly infuriating bugs so I'd like to have one with Tasker instead.

At first this was just a text based one with configuration file. As I added more logic and gestures, it became harder to manage them. That was when I realized I need a front end for this. It's still WIP and honestly a lot more harder then configuring the core engine.

u/aasswwddd — 4 days ago

[HELP] Two things: Monitor screen usage & Stop charging at 80%

I've looked on the Tasker share website but none of them really do what I want.

I want Tasker to monitor my screen on time usage (I guess it can be done because Tasker can have the option in settings) and a way to stop charging at 80% (literally just cut it dead/stop all together!)

EDIT1: I forgot to add, I'm rooted on Android 16. Any help?

Tasker is literally so awesome!!!!!

u/iCookiiey — 4 days ago

When do you decide that you need to learn how to write a proper app rather than using Tasker?

I get that most of the time, if you just need to automate the device, not to make a full-fledged app with complex features, then Tasker is enough. But it seems from my limited experience that even with that purpose, writing scripts are just more efficient than touching screens, especially when you are already sitting at the laptop to do research, or to program a server to receive your phone requests. But if you have decided to writing scripts instead of touching screen, then I guess writing a dedicated Android app is more efficient than a Tasker script?

So my question is: at what point is the effort to learn how to write a proper app smaller than the effort to continue using Tasker? The advantage of Tasker is UX-friendlier than programing, but its homepage is so UX-unfriendly and lacks many important information, especially from a developer viewpoint. For instances I can't find a page to read more about the decisions being made behind the app, or a guide to set up the working environment to write Tasker scripts as least effort as possible.

u/Ooker777 — 5 days ago

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[DEV] Project Share - Google Weather API with Free API Key

Hi everyone!

I was today years old when I found out that Google has a Weather API that you can use for free with a demo key they provide for free!

Weather APIs are notoriously hard to find for free, so hopefully this is a good, robust alternative.

Maybe this is old news, but since I just found out about it today, I thought I'd share it!

Get the project here.

Hope this is of some use for someone! 🙂

u/joaomgcd — 6 days ago

Auto navigate on google maps when connected to android auto

Hi,

I'm trying to automate google maps navigation to work when I connect to android auto.

Profile: Workday Morning Navigate To Work
Settings: Cooldown: 64800 Enforce: no Notification: no
	Day: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu or Fri
	Time: From  7:25AM Till  8:46AM
	State: BT Connected [ Name:BC8-Android Address:* ]



Enter Task: Anon

A1: Wait [
     MS: 0
     Seconds: 1
     Minutes: 0
     Hours: 0
     Days: 0 ]

A2: Turn On [
     Block Time (Check Help): 500 ]

A3: Browse URL [
     URL: google.navigation:q=167+Victoria+street+west&amp;mode=d
     Package/App Name: Maps ]

However this seems to refuse to work when my phone screen is off but the run log says everything is OK

Is there a way to make this work?

u/Repartees — 6 days ago

Change apps widgets depending of time of day

Looking for an app where you can add a widget to the home screen that has apps and can change the list of apps in the widget depending on time or location

Also be great if we can change different app widgets on homescreen depending on time/ location or click of a button.

u/techarena10 — 5 days ago

Check battery level of the Nothing Earbuds case

Hi everyone! I'm trying to use Tasker to check the battery level of my earbuds case. I always forget to charge it, so I would like to have a notification when it goes under a certain level, so I can keep it there until I charge it. I have a Pixel 8a and it shows only a little pop-up with the battery level when I open the case and I connect the earbuds, but then it disappears. The battery level is also visible in the Nothing X app, only when the case is open.

I tried with AutoInput but I don't know how to set it up and got stuck with the variables and everything. Can someone help me? Thank you so much!!

u/philousophie — 5 days ago

OpenVPN app not identifying Tasker as the source of API calls

Hi all. I use Tasker mainly to connect and disconnect to different VPN servers depending on the app I want to use. I do that with the now discontinued OpenVPN plugin for Tasker.

I'm switching my tasks to intents, but the OpenVPN app is saying that the app trying to connect to its API is unknown and therefore I must authorise any app to use the OpenVPN API.

When I use the OpenVPN plugin for Tasker, OpenVPN identifies it correctly as the source of the API call. Therefore, I'm assuming for now that this is not an OpenVPN problem.

I would rather not allow any app to use the OpenVPN API. Not that it's a huge security risk in my setup, but it's weird that it cannot see that the call is coming from Tasker. I would prefer to solve this and keep things neat.

Anyone with experience that can help me fix this? Thanks.

u/Lima_L — 6 days ago

Scenes V2 Webview Tasker JS Bridge Issue - Bridge functions not working

Tasker version: Latest beta

Enabled JS Bridge/ JS/ Local file access/ etc in WebView Settings

Check below code:

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
    &lt;script&gt;
        console.log(
            (typeof Tasker.getVariable)
            + '=' + (typeof Tasker.runTask)
            + '=' + (typeof Tasker.runShell)
            + '=' + (typeof Tasker.readFile)
        );
    &lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

The output I'm seeing from this log cmd is:

function=function=undefined=undefined

Seems like the functions defined under JS Bridge are working, but the ones defined under Webview Actions are not.

Kindly help, if anyone is able to figure out the issue here!

u/____nothing__ — 6 days ago