auto brightness by location?

[axxel]

Know any way to set auto brightness to only turn of when leaving your house? I want to be able to manually control my phones light while at home but have it go to auto when I leave.

 

[electricpete]

Tasker can certainly do that. Will probably take a little bit of fiddling to get it the way you want it.

 

[axxel]

Is tasker a battery hog? If so, it defeats my purpose of leaving auto brightness off while inside. I basically want to manually lower the lighting while inside, without disabling auto brightness, so that when I walk outside I don't have a black screen, unable to see anything. I'm rooted. Is there a way to dim the light, while still maintining auto?

 

[Thom]

Are you perhaps on a WiFi connection when you are "at home"?

... Thom

 

[axxel]

Are you perhaps on a WiFi connection when you are "at home"?

... Thom

Yes

 

[Thom]

This Tasker profile will turn auto brightness off when I am connected to either of my WiFi networks and on when I am not ...

Profile: AB
State: Wifi Connected [ SSID:TLANET-2.4GHz//TLANET-5GHz MAC:* IP:* ]
Enter: Anon
A1: Auto Brightness [ Set:Off ]
Exit: Anon
A1: Auto Brightness [ Set:On ]

... you need to substitute the SSID(s) for your network(s). (The "/" is an "or".)

... Thom

 

[axxel]

This Tasker profile will turn auto brightness off when I am connected to either of my WiFi networks and on when I am not ...

Profile: AB
State: Wifi Connected [ SSID:TLANET-2.4GHz//TLANET-5GHz MAC:* IP:* ]
Enter: Anon
A1: Auto Brightness [ Set:Off ]
Exit: Anon
A1: Auto Brightness [ Set:On ]

... you need to substitute the SSID(s) for your network(s). (The "/" is an "or".)

... Thom

Wow thanks! I will try that. Never used tasker, and here it's awesome. It's time to get on it.

I also found this little app called auto brightness switch. Put the icon smack dab in the middle of my screen so when I walk outside and forget to enable auto brightness, and can't see me screen, I know where to tap.
The app switch is working good so far. Going to try tasker too, your automated method sounds better. How is tasker on ram and battery usage?

 

[Thom]

Minor.

... Thom

 

[electricpete]

I agree, generally minor.

Battery usage depends of course in what you do with it. It is certainly possible to create profiles that will be battery hogs, but Tom's should be fine. I probably have 30-40 profiles enabled, and tasker is currently showing as 2% of my battery usage.

Tasker does load a running service, whose size varies. On average I think mine was 20Mb when I first installed tasker and now seems to be about double that. But for me this one app (tasker) takes the place of MANY apps that be required to do the same things.

 

[Thom]

For clarification I was referring to the presented Profile. You can create a profile or task that eats battery.

... Thom

 

[llamalab]

Automate is another automation app you can use to perform such tasks, and it's free:
http://androidforums.com/threads/ap...automate-automatic-tasks.694137/#post-6903556

 

[ericjohnson]

Does it run on Android 4.1?