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[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Hi,

I'll take a look at it. Sounds like this could be resolved...

Possibly by adding a new mode [Silent (Use current vibrate setting)].
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
TranslateIt - AutomateIt with your desired language

So, after lots of requests, AutomateIt is ready to be translated to different languages.

Since I can't speak all of the languages I've been requested to translate AutomateIt to, and using automatic tools to generate translation usually provides poor results, I'd appreciate your help on this issue.

I've come up with an an open-source-style-translation and you are all welcome to participate and translate AutomateIt to your favorite language.

Click here for more details and instructions

Your assistance is very much appreciated !
[Android Apps and Games] neederishelp:
Tried this free for a couple of days. Then bought the pro version... Great App, just one problem, i've got it set to where when I'm home, it turns on wifi, by searching gps. It worked for the first few days, but then quit working.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
@neederishelp, Make sure you follow the guidelines on this post.

Specifically, Try looking at the rule log. this will probably clear things for you.

If you still have a problem email me using the "Help !" button on the About screen.
[Android Apps and Games] Shazam613:
Hope this hasnt been asked and I missed it...if so, my apologies.

I'm trying to set up a battery saving rule(s) with bluetooth. I have a trigger that turns on bluetooth, GPS, 4G when the phone is plugged into power. If I take a call while its in this mode, no problem, but when I remove the power....Bluetooth cuts off. I would like to set up an exception that would leave bluetooth on if on a call and device no longer plugged in. Would this need to be done with 2 rules or can it be incorporated in 1? if so, how?

Thanks in advance for the assistance. Love the app!
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Muzikant, I think I found a problem. This is what I'm trying to do:

Trigger - Camera app activated

Action - Composite: enable screen rotation, set screen brightness to 60%

Trigger - Camera app deactivated

Action - Composite: disable screen rotation, set screen brightness to 23%

My camera app activated trigger works perfectly fine. However, exiting out of the camera app has mixed results. Screen rotation is always successfully disabled, but only sometimes the brightness gets changed back to 23%. I noticed that whenever I press "back" and it re-renders my homescreen icons (probably due to rotation setting being changed) the brightness is never changed from 60% to 23%. Other times, my homescreen icons are not re-rendered and those times my brightness is properly changed back to 23%. Any thoughts on this?

BTW, I have a separate rule that only activated/deactivated screen rotation with the camera application that works 100% of the time. Only today I decided to test a composite action to include screen brightness increase/decrease, and this is what happened.

Edit: just tested by making the exact same rules for activating/deactivating Gallery instead of Camera, and it worked as expected. So, there seems to be some specific problem with the default Camera app. I'm using CM7 by the way.

Can anyone else test this? If you don't have the Pro version, instead of making a composite action just make two rules, one for screen rotation enable/disable and one for brightness adjustment.
[Android Apps and Games] hayawata:
TranslateIt - SPANISH

Hi there,

I've finished the translation into Spanish, and ready for anyone to have a look at it. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Thanks !

Although I don't speak Spanish, this looks great :)

Here is the link to the translated strings in Spanish so you can review it.

and the link to the post on my blog with instructions for translation to other languages.
[Android Apps and Games] warpaper:
multi action

can I set multiple actions?
[Android Apps and Games] movrshakr:
Yes in the Pro version.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Following up from my previous post, I did some testing on a friend's phone, also running CM7. I learned that only the Camera app deactivated rules are at fault. For some reason, doing a composite action of disable screen rotation + adjust brightness only results in disabling screen rotation and not adjusting brightness, and this only happens with the deactivation of the Camera app (I tested with the Gallery app, which does both disable screen rotation + adjust brightness perfectly). Can anyone please test this on their phone?
[Android Apps and Games] zabumba:
Great app.

I'm trying to decrease screen brightness to 0 after let's say for example 1 am but all I can is reduce screen brightness to 10%. Why this limit?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
The brightness is limited to a minimum of 10% since when setting it to 0 the screen is completly black and you can't see anything
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
Can I for example set that when the battery reaches 10% or less.. It automatically shuts down 3g/wifi/ , and maybe even start an app "chainfires nightmode from his 3d-app for example".

And when reaching above 10% . All these features are automatically activated again?

And does the app itself drain any battery? Or how is it update frequencies ? ALot of these apps feels like they drain more than they help.
[Android Apps and Games] kralle22:
german translation

just finished german translation - yeah 100% !

:D :D :D
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
+1 for multiple rules on 1 trigger. Would be awsome if you just could configure a trigger and then move on to the next rule untill you are happy.

Because its often many rules that you want to enable for 1 specific trigger.
[Android Apps and Games] movrshakr:
Yet again I say, multiple actions for one trigger are available in the Pro version. He calls them "Composite" actions. You can also have composite triggers.
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
Sweet.. Defenitly buying it.. If the dev can answer what has been done to have good update frequency..

Since I mainly use this kind of apps to try to save batterylife. I wouldnt want it to leak memory or have lousy update freq..

Is this app "heavy on the system" or has this been an important factor to keep it light in development?

And im sorry for repeated questions of the same thing. I saw it already had been answered.. I confess I was lazy and didnt read many posts before I posted it.. sry for that.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Muzikant, could you (or anyone) please verify whether or not what I am experiencing is a problem with my particular setup or with AutomateIt itself? Any response would be appreciated; I feel like I'm talking to nobody here :(...
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Hi, I've done some testing on the issue and it looks like when closing the Camera app it might take some time for the home screen (or previous activity) to display and the "Set Screen Brightness Action" might fail in this scenario.

One solution could be to use a delayed execution of about 2 seconds. Solved this issue for me.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
I wasn't sure at first what you mean by "update frequency" so if I misinterpreted what you mean, feel free to point me in the right direction...

With that said, AutomateIt is designed not to exhaust your battery and I try to minimize required system resources as much as I can.

I have approximately 30 rules defined and I rarely see it on the "Battery Status" screen so this is not an issue for me.

Still, There could be some issues with battery consumption if used incorrectly. The thing that you should be a bit more careful with are location triggers. if not configured correctly, they could exhaust your battery. It's pretty obvious that if you'll define a location trigger that uses the GPS and check for location every minute, you take a serious hit to you battery...

AutomateIt offers several parameters that can assist you to better define your location trigger so it will not use too much power. see more details on the location trigger tips & tricks post on my blog.

One more thing that I'm still investigating is the proximity sensor trigger. This is still just a suspicion and I haven't verified it (could be device specific issue).

The only trigger that has an "update frequency" is the calendar trigger but the default frequency is 4 hours so unless you set it to a few seconds, this shouldn't be an issue as well.

Other than that, executing the actions doesn't use that much power and the other triggers just sit and wait...

Hope that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
thank you for your fast response. Buying it now.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Thanks, delay of 1 second works for me :)
[Android Apps and Games] CarbonFiber51:
Hey

Great app! I had it back when no composite rules was available and for each idea I had 526 rules were needed. Now the app is better tenfold and no more headaches for me :-)

I think I managed to create a Flip Silent 3 rules set, and on first tests it run quiet well. I guess it could be improved to be more efficient, bit this one works. Let's call it v1.0.

Please advise any improvements.

http://db.tt/GaNyy66

Is it possible to make the phone activate speaker while in-call using the first rule of this set?

Anyone has good ideas for rules, or things you've created?

Sent from my Desire HD
[Android Apps and Games] masterdevx:
Good idea to use your phone differently, great assistant to daily use... useful. Smart app and highly configurable !

Thanx Dev ;)
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
Can some1 post their most usefull rules/triggers that you have created.
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
One person's useful rules may or may not be useful to anyone else. It just depends on your usage habits. I suggest looking through the list of triggers and trying to think if there is anything you want done after that. Anyway, here is a list of rules that are useful to me:

My WiFi network connected -> Disable screen lock

Any WiFi network disconnected -> WiFi adapter disabled with 30 second delay to allow override (for those times I leave an area without remembering to turn off WiFi)

WiFi disabled -> Enable screen lock

Composite AND (External power connected, My WiFi network connected) -> Set screen timeout to never

Composite OR (Application activated (Speed Test, Gallery)) -> set screen timeout to 1 minute

Composite OR (Application deactivated (Speed Test, Gallery), External power disconnected) -> set screen timeout to 15 seconds

Composite OR (Application activated (Facebook, Gallery, Google+, Dolphin Browser HD, Facebook, Camera)) -> Enable screen auto rotation

and complimentary rule to disable screen rotation when apps deactivated

Battery level = 100% -> Play sound, Vibrate

Composite OR (Application activated (Camera, Gallery)) -> Set screen brightness to 60%

and complimentary rule to go back to normal brightness
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Most of my rules are available on this post.
[Android Apps and Games] hackeron:
Thank you guys.. Its always good to get some ideas by looking at what others have set up. Can speed up the process of getting my own set up.. thx
[Android Apps and Games] CarbonFiber51:
Is it possible to add a recheck option, so a rule will check a certain trigger, and then check it again after a defined period, and if it true it will execute?

Sent from my Desire HD
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
I noticed that when setting the action to set the volume of one audio stream, the volume level increments are not consistent with what the Android system typically provides. These are the available magnitudes I see through various audio management apps:

Alarm 0-7

Music 0-15

Notification 0-7

Ringer System 0-7

System 0-7

Voice 0-5

These increments are also consistent with what is seen in the "Set Volume Action."

However when using the "Set Volume For Single Stream Action" it appears we can set it to any intensity between 0-100% in increments of 1%. I think it makes more sense to be consistent with the convention, or even instead of having sliders have it show as a list of options (e.g., similar to the Set Screen Timeout options, but with 0-5, 0-7, or 0-15 depending on the stream).

On that note, it would be nice to see numerical values on all sliders (such as brightness) so we can know the value before pressing save, because that is currently the only way to know.

Also, what is this "DTMF" stream?
[Android Apps and Games] cjm2576:
I have a question about location triggers.

Let's say my network accuracy is 2000m. Does this imply a 2000m radius from my location or diameter? I'm guessing radius.

I center a trigger location on my house.

To be able to successfully trigger the rule whenever I'm at home, would I then need to create a circle around my house that is large enough to encompass an entire 2000m radius circle that could be centered anywhere within 2000m from my house?

So... roughly a 4000m radius circle around my house?
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Hi,

The location accuracy is the radius around a given location.

I've attached a diagram that can assist you to better understand the relation between the accuracy and proximity radius.

Deciding on the exact proximity radius depends on how accurate you want to be. You could use a 2000m with some additional buffer of another 500 meters and that should work in most cases, but you could also use a 4000m radius if that better suits what you want to do with the location trigger.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Thanks for highlighting it. I'll see if I can come up with a better way to handle it.

As for DTMF - it is the sound you hear when you place a call and the phone is ringing/waiting/busy/etc on the other end.
[Android Apps and Games] sci05:
Tried your app on honeycomb, so far there are no issues with the rules, however even with popup turned off the notification bar shows the rules being activated and it covers the entire bottom right corner
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Hi, AutomateIt is not officially supported on honeycomb but I actually use it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab and I'm aware of these kind of issues, but not this specific one. can you send me a screenshot that shows it ?

Thanks anyway and please let me know if you see more things that behave differently on Honeycomb.
[Android Apps and Games] Dunc001:
@Muzikant - would you consider adding in a button beside the edit and disable buttons on each rule in the main list to allow you to simply click to run the rule (rather than having to longpress and then select in the menu)? Also, is there any chance of working on a new widget - my ideal would be a simple 1x1 widget (just the app icon) which when pressed brings up a popup window with a list of the rule names, and clicking on a rule name activates that rule and closes the popup. This in my opinion would make AutomateIT perfect... :D
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
@Dunc001, Not exactly what you are suggesting but you can have a widget that runs a specific rule and place it on you home screen. I guess that you probably don't need it for all your rules so it could be an alternative for getting similar results.
[Android Apps and Games] geekaren:
AutomateIt is one of my favorite utility apps. The Pro version is well worth the cost.
[Android Apps and Games] Dunc001:
Yeah, I know about the single rule widget. I was kind of harking back to the UI I was used to with Phoneweaver in Winmo where clicking the app icon brought up essentially the same thing as your main app screen but as a popular containing the list of rule names where a single click ran the profile/rule and closed the popular. Just liked the way it worked, that's all. Love AutomateIT all the same :D
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

please add the following:

- action > Screen off

- action > toggle 2g only and 2g/3g

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
I also think screen off (and on) action would be nice
[Android Apps and Games] Tippfehler:
Hi,

I have a problem with the Call State Trigger.

How can I trigger calls from callers, who are not in the contact list?

I need a special rule for unknown callers and a different rule for all callers from the contact list.
[Android Apps and Games] sci05:
Here a shot of what I was talking about.
[Android Apps and Games] crazyC:
+1 for Toggle 2g and 2g/3g
[Android Apps and Games] Tippfehler:
And only 3G (disable 2G).
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
TranslateIt

I'm going to publish a new update in the next few days that includes the translation to several languages prepared by AutomateIt users.

The update will include translation to languages that have at least 90% of the application strings translated.

Current status of translation is available at the following link:

http://muzikant-android.blogspot.com/2011/07/translateit-automateit-with-your.html

Current languages that are going to be supported are German (99.74%), Spanish (99.87%), Hebrew (100%) and Polish (90.15%).

a review of the already prepared translations is also very much appreciated.

Thanks to all of you who contributed so far ! :)
[Android Apps and Games] dcoales:
+1 for this. I would like to switch to GSM only if I am on a wifi network (since I don't need 4G and wifi) and the battery lasts way longer if kept on GSM only.
[Android Apps and Games] slonn:
Just heard of this app today. Bought it and have so far set up 20+ rules. The ones I've tested work fine. Looks like a great app!

Edit: is there a way to enable/disable the pin lock on the lock screen at specific times? I can't seem to find that option.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
Use the Time Trigger and Enable/Disable Screen Lock Action.

This will disable the screen lock entirely and not just the pin lock.
[Android Apps and Games] walda:
would it be possible to add a sent sms to the sms db?

sent from my SGSII via T*patalk
[Android Apps and Games] yungyeh:
Got pro from market today. Great app.

I found a possible bug or just being trick to set up

It happened when I tried to set up the following rules:

1. When [screen on] and [power is not connected] and [Wifi is disabled] -> [Turn on Wifi]

2. When [screen off] and [power is not connected] and [Wifi is enabled] --> [Turn off Wifi] with delay 5 minutes

When I tried to save the rule #2, a waring popped preventing me from saving the rule #2.

Although I figure a solution, I just don't see why I can't create such rules together.
[Android Apps and Games] slonn:
Yes, but I'm not looking to entirely disable the lock screen. The request is to disable the pin lock only for certain hours during the day, but still keep the lock screen.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
New update - With language support

Hi, as promised, I just released a new update (Both Free and Pro version) that includes support for several languages - German, Spanish, Hebrew and Polish (and the default English). By default, it uses the device locale but you can also manually select a language of your choice so you'll have your default device language set to one language and have AutomateIt use a different language (a detailed guide on using the

language settings is on the AutomateIt user guide).

Want to have another language supported ? See a spelling mistake that should be fixed ? visit the TranslateIt post on my blog for more details.

Huge thanks to all the users who contributed to the translation process so far.

The Pro update also includes a change to the Composite AND Trigger that allows multiple triggers of the same type (e.g. several Location triggers combined in a single Composite AND Trigger) as discussed on this post.

Looking forward to your comments
[Android Apps and Games] JVogler:
I just installed free version and am trying to accomplish this:

When phone is set down on level surface and doesnt move during call...it switches to speaker phone. When you pick it up (move) it, it goes back to normal.

Is this possible with paid version?
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Hopefully your user base can expand greatly with the language update!

I'm a bit curious about your thoughts/plans to include new actions/triggers/options? Here are a few personal requests of mine:

[Actions]

-Fix individual audio stream levels to be consistent with Android audio levels

Since the "Set Volume Action" interface is already complete and correct, here are two ideas to fix/improve this:

1) Just take individual stream sliders from that interface

2) In that interface, include a check box for each level so we can adjust steam volumes as flexibly as possible. Best solution IMO.

-Add turn screen on and off actions

-Add media play action via KeyEvent action KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY (and similarly, KEYCODE_MEDIA_PAUSE and rest of the KEYCODE_MEDIA commands)

[Triggers]

-Calendar: option to trigger some user-defined amount of time in advance of the event. My rationale is that sometimes meetings and classes start a little early, or you don't want to your phone to ring <1 minute before an event begins. So, it would be nice to have the option to give an advance buffer; in essence it's the opposite of the "Delayed Execution" option.

[General]

-Allow copying of rules

-For all sliders, include numerical values (brightness, volume, sensor sensitivities)
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

tasker is a little bit better than AutomateIt.

example rule: device face down = silently

Device.......|.........AutomatIt......|........Tasker

Face down.|switch to silent mode|switch to silent mode

Face up.....|...........nothing........|switch back to normaly

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] Dunc001:
Yeah, if you can be arsed with the amount of work it takes to set up Tasker and the crap UI. Sure, Tasker can do loads more but AutomateIT can do most of what we need it to far easier IMHO.
[Android Apps and Games] cjm2576:
I'm unsure where to bug report so I'm posting here.

I opened up AutomateIt Pro today and found that all but two of my rules were completely missing. These rules were in place yesterday. I'm unware of any random reboots, though I did manually reboot (hold power button, power off) the phone. Thankfully I had a close to current backup to restore.

This also brings up a feature request. I have a Droid X2 that inexplicably has an "internal SD storage" and the actual SD card mounted on /mnt/sdcard-ext/. I'd like to request added support for either the external storage or being able to select the backup location.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] yungyeh:
I think you need two rules to do that.

One is face down trigger event/action ,and the other is the face up trigger event/action
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

two rules? nonsense! rather then tasker!

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Hmm I just exported my rules to csv format and noticed that the formatting for composite triggers and actions makes it difficult to import to Excel. I see that each line should be of the form

"Rule description","Trigger","Action","Enabled","Delayed Execution","Active Hours"

So here is a typical rule in the expected format, since it has no composite triggers or actions:

"Turn off Wi-Fi on Wi-Fi disconnect","[Wifi Network Connection State Trigger]: Network [<Any Network>] is Disconnected","[Set Wifi State Action]: Set Wi-Fi adapter status to Wi-Fi Disabled","true","30.0 Seconds",""

Now here is one rule with composite trigger:

"Apps enable auto-rotate","[[Composite OR Trigger]]: [Application Activated (Facebook)
OR Application Activated (Gallery)
OR Application Activated (Google+)
OR Application Activated (TF2 Backpack Viewer)
OR Application Activated (Wifi Analyzer)
OR Application Activated (Dolphin Browser HD)
OR Application Activated (Camera)]","[Enable/Disable Screen Rotation Action]: Enable screen rotation","true","",""

Now each composite trigger is not just separated by a comma, but is a new line. This causes formatting issues when importing to Excel. What is the reason for not making it one continuous line?
[Android Apps and Games] Muzikant:
What do you mean by importing to excel?

there is no need to import it. Just open the csv file using Excel and it will be displayed correctly.

The impotant thing is not the new line but the quote sign at the start and end of each string.