Android Tasker routine to warn if home WiFi is not functioning correctly
Been experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today, and sometimes my wife says her phone is not connecting, and I’d have to reboot the home rou ...continues
This article by #CoryDoctorow from 2010(!) is more valid than ever. Not just related to iPads but for the whole #Apple ecosystem. You rarely own an Apple device whose biggest value it only gets by accessing the walled gardens Apple has total control over.
It's for #consumers and not for people who want to play with their devices in a #creative way!
Besides: with Android apps like #Tasker I get so much value from my otherwise not so smart phone.
For purely political and financial reasons, #Apple forbids to offer and run such applications in its #walledgarden and an Apple "owner" can't do nothing about this.
Furthermore, there are many stories where Apple used their total power to get companies out of the Apple market in a very dubious way. They're not the people you want to absolutely depend on.
I was getting frustrated with the multiple versions of #Tasker plugin documentation, so I started creating a wiki article with up-to-date information and examples.
While the examples provided showed me what to copy-and-paste, I didn't understand how it all fit together or how to build something from scratch. This is my attempt at reducing pain for future developers (and future me!). Examples, tutorials, gotchas, and more.
My current obsession is sticking little NFC stickers on anything and everything to automate stuff with #Tasker as the trigger.
🚰 Tag on the water bottle? Scan to log water consumption.
🐕 Tag next to the dog leash? Start the #Toggl time entry for walking my dog.
📺 Two on the back of the TV remote for watching YouTube or movies (the movie one dims the lights).
👕 One on the washing machine to start a timer to remind me to put the clothes in the dryer.
Well, after a bit of fumbling, I'm releasing the first version of my first #Android app, Timekeeper.
Timekeeper is a #Tasker plugin to automate interacting with #Toggl Track for time tracking. My main use case is things like scanning NFC tags around the house when I'm doing various things.
It only does some basic time entry starting and stopping now, but it's a good starting point. If that's something you might benefit from, consider checking it out.
Hey, self-hoster friends. Could you suggest me a public bookmarking tool that I can host on my machine? Preferably, something lightweight that I can use to create lists of links and share with people.
@preslavrachev I use #LinkAce (https://www.linkace.org/). Very simple, easy to deploy, with simple API (I use it to save link with #Tasker easily), and with a useful feature to save (if you want) your links in Internet Archive, so in case the original is removed, you can retrieve from the archive.
I use the HTTP request actions in #Tasker to automate the creation of time entries in #Toggl, but that's been pretty darn flaky for me recently. Not sure if that's my internet, my phone, or Toggl's API blocking my requests.
Tasker provides a library and POC code for creating native plugins. So, let's try that! It's an excuse to get back into some #Flutter development, and it'll force me to get exposed to #Gradle and #Kotlin.