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Peanut44
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:51 pm    Post subject: Launch CamerALert and GPS on bluetooth connect Reply with quote

Hi, just wondered if anyone had played with Tasker, to automate their phone to launch CamerAlert & GPS when it pairs with your cars bluetooth. and then kill CamerAlert and GPS when you leave car (lose bluetooth connection).

I reckon if i can get this working it will save me tons of battery life...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, a few people have.

In the advanced settings we have options to use Car Mode and Car Dock Mode.

As an example you can turn Car Dock Mode on and tell tasker that once you connect to bluetooth in the car that it should turn on Car Dock Mode - this will fire up CamerAlert automatically and close it when car dock mode is disabled (again, handled via tasker)

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Launch CamerALert and GPS on bluetooth connect Reply with quote

Peanut44 wrote:
Hi, just wondered if anyone had played with Tasker, to automate their phone to launch CamerAlert & GPS when it pairs with your cars bluetooth. and then kill CamerAlert and GPS when you leave car (lose bluetooth connection).

I reckon if i can get this working it will save me tons of battery life...


I bought Tasker to do just that because CA kills the battery in my Nexus 7 when I forget to stop CA, but it looks a little more complicated than I anticipated Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Us Android boys HiJacked the iOS section for a while talking about running Tasker on Android. See here -
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=93733&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=11

It's possible to do most things but it appears to be phone/OS dependent about what it can and can't do.

Try out the free 7 day trial from the Tasker website to make sure it can do what you want.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think your aim is a bit different to mine MaFt, i want it to be fully automatic, ie not even get my phone out of my pocket...i dont want to have to set modes or toggle something manually..

Anyway i sorted it this evening in my lunchbreak ;)

Profile:- State : Net : Bluetooth Connected : New Task : App : Load App : CamerAlert : Add Task : Media : Music Play : MeepMeep.mp3 ;)

Profile:- State : Net : Not Bluetooth Connected (inverted): New task : App : Kill App (with root) : CamerAlert : Add Task : Media : Music Play : Disconnected.mp3


Pretty straightforward really, gonna see if i can get the "connected (meepmeep)" and "disconnected" sounds to play through speakers instead of phone tommorow, bit tired atm ;)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Btw i forgot to mention that i havent declared a specific pairing, so theoretically it would turn on cameralert if it paired up with any other device i might have it set for, but as i havent paired it with anything else....
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peanut44 wrote:
I think your aim is a bit different to mine MaFt, i want it to be fully automatic, ie not even get my phone out of my pocket...i dont want to have to set modes or toggle something manually..


You would only have to set the car mode or car dock mode once. After that when you connect to bluetooth in the car then tasker would kick in and fire up car dock mode which, in turn, would trigger CamerAlert to launch.

The benefit being that if you have other apps that auto-run using car dock mode then you only have a single command - to turn on car dock mode.

Or if you actually have a car dock that can trigger car dock mode then you wouldn't even need tasker.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah I see what you mean, but i didnt see any app task that allowed me to run dock mode, and i dont have a dock, hence the leaving me phone in me pocket bit ;)

Its pretty cool though, gonna have another play with it tonight, see what else i can make it do Smile Chrs for the suggestions.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well i tried in vain to get my phone to play sounds to car audio, i could get it to play music to it independantly using 'Soundabout' but it wouldnt do it through tasker...

oh well ;)
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