I've noticed that since the last upgrade(s), there's a problem with the sequence of the enter/exit tasks.

I wondered why some of my profiles didn't work exactly as they used to work and suspected some tasks not to be performed or performed more then once.

To check this i added counters to each enter and exit tasks on the profiles which gave a problem. These counters count one up each time a task is executed.

This confirmed my assumption that sometime the enter tasks where performed but that the exit tasks never where executed when the profile was deactivated and

Hello,

The "scan media" action does not seem to work on my "Note 8" with Oreo. I believe this is a bug that needs to be addressed.

Instead, I am using the following shell command with root:

am startservice --es volume "external" com.android.providers.media/.MediaScannerService

There is also an app that works for the "scan media":

https://github.com/zhuowei/scanmediaplz

I want to play a random song from a folder when I shake my phone and it usually works but sometimes it just doesn't play a song. I turned off random to see if it always happens at the same place and it happens after all the other songs have been played once.

Hi!

Just purchased Tasker and really like the possibilities. I am using a Samsung Galaxy S9+ and want to rotate and change display brightness when launching a defined app. But no actions is executed. Also used the ADB Tool (Galaxy S9+ Developer Settings activated, USB Debugging enabled) to send the command to activate android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS like recomended in the guidelines. Still no success. Simple Tasks (like Beep, Pop-Up) work perfectly. Also activated logging - don't see any Errors there.  

What am i missing?

Regards, Martin  

Can I arrange them vertically?

Tasker 5.6

Android 8.0

Notifications created by using the Notify, Notify Sound or Notify Led can not be expanded and will only show the first line of text.

Ex.

Screen orientation is portrait but able to put the text in a scene in landscape

Lock code protection is not functioning properly in Tasker and security is compromised:

1. Tasker is lock code protected

2. Long-pressing Tasker icon on the phone's Home screen opens a popup with options such as Settings, Run Log, Edit Task.

3. Tapping Edit Task, for example, takes the user straight to the editable Tasker task with no lock code prompts

4. Now, selecting Cancel from the task takes the user to the task list, i.e. giving an unauthorized user full access to do whatever (s)he wants with Tasker

Hi,

It appears that from tasker V5.6 causes custom set live wallpaper and lock screen image to always revert back to defaults when reset or screen turned off.

I'm running Ironman Rom V1.2.0 on Note 8 NS950F Android 7.1.1. 

This issue did not occur prior to V5.6.

Thanks Gordon

I have imported a tasker project from my mobile phone to an Nvidia shield TV, when I execute the task I get an error message by a "Custom Setting" action:

A1: Custom Setting [ Type:System Name:screen_brightness_mode Value: Use Root:Off Read Setting To:%autobright Continue Task After Error:On ]

results in error:

21.29.47/E Custom Setting: missing 'modify system settings' permission, start proxy 21.29.47/E start proxy ProxyTransparent, wait, time limit 20s 21.29.47/E add wait type Proxy Group time 20 21.29.47/E add wait type Proxy Group done 21.29.47/E set proxy: true (startProxy) 21.29.47/E add wait task 21.29.48/E Error: 1

What I'm wondering is why

Hi

in Scene Layout we can replace Pictures (Scene>>Object Picture).

In my Scene´s i replace many Material Design Icons with the same, but in a other Color.

e.g. "car.picture" in white, replace with "car.picture" in green.

The Problem:  When i would replace it live in the active scene with a button, it dont change the Object Picture, because the Filename dont change, only it´s Color.

When I create and add an exit task in Tasker it appears in the UI as a standard starting task (green arrow pointing to the right). I  created many exit tasks before and it seems after a Tasker update Tasker has this UI bug where the exit task never shows with the red arrow pointing to the left like it used to.

Hi, 

I think there is a small bug in the calendar event handler. Let me explain.. 

My user story

When a calendar entry (meeting) is starting, I would like to mute my phone. But I want to exclude the meetings where the location is set to 'DSN'. These are all-day events that remind me to work on a different work location, so they are not really 'meetings'. I have a calendar event profile with location set to '!DSN' . 

The problem

The calendar event variables are set to a default value when not present in the event.

Example: I have

Just to open Tasker in a specific project.

With this action we would be able to make our own ui for organize and view all projects. 

My idea is for there to be a native and simple alternative for a several day long wait action. I know that there are some workarounds (JSON stuff, Calendar workarounds, etc...) but the ones I've seen all leave something to be desired.   

My use case for this is have a popup when I disable my alarm that asks me how many days I want to disable it for then reactivating it after the time has passed. 

Tasks that are running when the TaskService is killed are resumed when the TaskService can be recreated (as they should).  In addition completed tasks that should not resume are incorrectly replayed if they were started after a task which should resume.

Example:

• Task "Long" requires a long time to finish.
• Task "Short1" and "Short2" are done quickly.
• User starts tasks in the order Short2, Long, Short1.
• Tasker finishes Short2 and Short1 but is still working on Long.
• Android terminates the TaskService
• Tasker recreates TaskService
• Tasker resumes Long and Short1 even though Short1 had already finished.

Expected behavior: Tasker resumes Long

In the Tasker preferences -> UI, List Item Dragging has the option When Selecting, With Menu Option. This works perfectly for me, except for one thing.

When selecting a profile, task or scene a 'trash can' icon appears in the title bar so the selection can be deleted.

However, when selecting an action in the task edit screen no 'trashcan' icon appears. The user is forced to cut the actions to Tasker's clipboard to delete them. See attached screenshots.

Tasker is asking for validation. It suggests to back up, uninstall and purchase from play store but there is no way to back up as it jumps straight to validation screen. I have 10 hours worth of commands written (some of which I don't remember how to rewrite). How do I back them up?

File events work with relative paths, e.g. to watch the Tasker dir you enter "Tasker". However if you use absolute paths, like "/sdcard/Tasker" it doesn't work.

I have a bunch of global variables for various directories, all using absolute paths, e.g. "/sdcard/Tasker", so for convenience it would be great to have these events modified to work with absolute paths. As far as I know all other places in Tasker which take paths will accept both absolute and relative paths.