[Droid X Themes and Apps] DroidBois:
Just discovered Tasker, is this the main thread? I am slowly working through the mountains of ad-hoc documentation and FAQs, I hope this guy develops a decent manual eventually. For now does anyone know how Cell Near works? Do cells transmit their location so Tasker can build a map or does it just correlate with your GPS position?

If I go for a walk around the block and pick up all the cells, I guess I could use that to turn on WiFi, then another task set to trigger based on if I am connected to home wi-fi? It sounds like wi-fi is working whenever 'passive' cell scanning is working?

When you set a location, do you set Cell Near, WiFi Near and GPS? I think Tasker is supposed to not start scanning WiFi and GPS unitl the Cell Near criteria is met, which is a 'passive' positioning system that requires no extra power, however this also requires a large radius? I've set 50 metre radius for work and home and it seems to work ok, I presume it still waits for the Cell Near to be triggered before doing anything more power hungry, even with that small radius.

I also walked around the building and my home when scanning for Cell Near, it pops up a heap of cell ID's and I presume it knows what it's doing from there (do cell broadcasts contain their position?). I have no idea how this cell based positioning thing works.

Also with the 'GPS' and 'Net' buttons on the location setting screen, I presume that's where you specify either or both of network / GPS positioning.

What radius do you all set for home / work? I'm trying 50 metres at the moment and presume Cell Near combined with GPS and Wi-Fi near should enable that to work with minimum power drain (i.e. not start GPS or wi-fi scanning until I'm in range of the cells), and will GPS scanning work even if GPS is turned off in a profile or manually?

I want GPS disabled when at home or at work (un-necessary power drain?) and re-enabled when I leave work or home.

I had some problems yesterday with my 'I've left work at %TIME, on the way' and when within 2km "I am here travelling at speed" SMS messages to my wife yesterday and I got blasted for making her wait half an hour outside because I got caught in traffic.

Any suggestions? Maybe I can just leave Latitude on and she can SEE where I am, and get the SMS to just say 'get on Latitude'.

Next on the list is Wake On LAN for my home PC, and network controllable lights would be awesome.

And can the phone distinguish a car charger from a wall charger? I'm wondering if there is any way to get Tasker to work out when it's in the car, switch off WiFi, turn on GPS, turn on BlueTooth, and fire up my favourite Internet radio station (Shoutcast pls / m3u based – at the moment I use TuneWiki manually), ideally after I plug in my FM transmitter (Headphone Connected trigger)

And does Bluetooth drain power if it's not connected but enabled?

I also subscribe to a public holiday calendar in Google, so I want it to scan for '<My State>' in the description to only enable alarm if it's a weekday, and not a public holiday. I can do that in Locale easily enough so I presume I can do that here too, and mute my phone in calendar appointments.