Best Tasker plugins

Those are some potent plugins which I use myself. I also use the plugins for AutoHue to control my Hue lights. And I use the Zooper plugin frequently, to enhance the functionality of my Zooper widgets.

Don't forget about a AutoVera, that's another excellent plugin. I use it daily to control my entire home.

You should have included Synker.

I use Commandr, its similar to auto vice except its free.

I've been using Secure Settings for things for a few years now. I also use Screen Filter to dim the screen for my automatically triggered bedtime profile. Makes it less harsh on the eyes, and lets my wife get to sleep easier.

Was also using a couple Pebble specific plugins when I had one but it got stolen. :(

Haven't had much time this past 3 weeks to go back into tasker and mess with it, but i'm automating my wifi and bluetooth connections, as well as setting the power saving modes on my Note 3 to toggle on when screen is off and toggle off when the screen is back on and i'm using the phone.

What I'd like to set up if I can take the time to do so is that when the weather updates and it's raining, since my office has no windows i'd like to get a push notification to my Gear 2 and later on my Moto 360 that the hot/dry day just turned into a torrential downpour (as can happen often and quickly in TX). I heavily use my watch during the day and getting a notification there since my phone is often sitting on my desk for hours without use would be great. Just a heads up before leaving for lunch or home that it's wet out would complete most of the things I want to do with tasker.

I've developed a few plugins for Tasker (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=kanetik&c=apps), and I'm always looking for ideas for plugins that don't exist yet, but people want. My focus is not on quantity of plugins, but quality - good UX/UI, and with the features that make the most sense. Anyone got anything they wish existed, but doesn't yet?

Using Secure Settings for a one click task/event to force close many prefered not greenified apps once in a while was not a big succes. Slow and unstable. The free tasker plugin Taskill from Store however does that excellent and fast.

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Thanks for the article! I always like learning more about what Tasker can do.

Quick question though. The biggest reason I've wanted to use tasker, but the one thing that eluded all these years, is to control vibrations. I want to turn off notification vibrations when my phone is perfectly still, and facing up. It looks like the notification vibration toggle was disabled a few android versions ago. Is there a plug in that can replicate this feature?

Thanks!

Tasker is an amazingly capable program, but at the same time has incredibly stupid limitations. The inability to prioritize profiles is ludicrously limiting. Yes, there are workarounds involving dozens, or even hundreds of lines of tasker "code," but this is a function that should be built-in. If I'm leaving home in my car, I should be able to EASILY say the car profile has priority over the home one (or vice-versa). When I get to work, I should be able to EASILY tell the app not to switch to the work profile until I'm out of the car (disconnect from BT, for example). Handling those conditions is absurdly complicated in tasker.

The other idiotic limitation is (as far as I can tell), the lack of OR logic in defining a profile. I want to turn my car profile on if I'm connect to BT in car 1, OR BT in car 2, or BT in car three, but not any other time. Again, there's no simple way to do this that I can figure out.

Half of the reason Tasker is so complicated is that it has no built-in way to do the basic things people need to do. It's almost as if the Tasker makers and users view the need and ability to generate complex recipes as a badge of honor, keeping out the riff raff.