Options not working on Volume actions

Thank you Thom. So it sounds like your results for the Display and Sound options also were not as expected.

In my case, nothing is displayed and no sound is generated regardless whether the action changes the current volume or not. Those options don't seem to do anything at all.

I don't really want the sound option or a beep, what I really would like is to momentarily display the level of the stream for confirmation that it is set as I want it.

I am running my script via an icon, and currently get no confirmation that it was properly run unless I check the volume stream value manually after touching the icon. So I need to display of the level for confirmation.

Thom said:

Setting volume levels happens to be my favorite subject.

The levels are provided in global variables …

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A1 Flash [ Text:%VOLA Alarm
%VOLB Blue tooth
%VOLC Call
%VOLD DTMF
%VOLM Media
%VOLN Notification
%VOLR Ringer
%VOLS System Long:On ]

… Thom

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Thanks! I'm lucky I found you on this particular topic! I just started using Tasker and so far have only done some simple sets of actions to set all volume streams at once to silent, low, medium and high so I can set them with the touch of an icon. Works great (except that I can't get the options to work)!

Looks like maybe this is a custom user function to display the levels of the streams? Sorry, but don't know enough about Tasker yet to know how to use this. If it's not too much trouble, can you explain how use/call it?

Thanks again!

DayLateDollarShort said:

Thanks! I'm lucky I found you on this particular topic! I just started using Tasker and so far have only done some simple sets of actions to set all volume streams at once to silent, low, medium and high so I can set them with the touch of an icon. Works great (except that I can't get the options to work)!

Looks like maybe this is a custom user function to display the levels of the streams? Sorry, but don't know enough about Tasker yet to know how to use this. If it's not too much trouble, can you explain how use/call it?

Thanks again!

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Think maybe I see it... goes in as code/java function? I'll test it out...

DayLateDollarShort said:

Think maybe I see it... goes in as code/java function? I'll test it out...

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No, this probably isn't right... couldn't get it to work. Not sure what to do with the code. If you can tell me how to set it up it would be great! Thanks!

Don't know what I was thinking! Clearly it's not Javascript! Realized later it was Tasker specific code.

Thank you for this! So you exported the code for this. Is there a way for me to import it into my Tasker?

In the meantime, I got my script working with the Sound and Display options.

I have 7 actions each setting the level of a volume stream. Seems that if I set the Sound and Display options in the first few actions, it they work. But if I set them at say action 7, nothing happens. So I simply set the first action to show the level Display and it works (before I had the last action set to do this... that does not work). Strange, but it works!

Also, figured out how to make the level display whether the level is changed or not. I simply put a duplicate action for one of the streams on the list (before the action which sets it at the level I want) and set that duplicate at a different level. Then, when the action runs, it changes the level and displays the level indicator.

Example:

Action #1 sets Ringer at level 1
Action #2 sets Ringer at level 5

So when level 5 is set, it is always a change from the current level.

And I set the Display option on the level 5 (which is the level I actually want).

This way the level is indicated regardless of the current level.

Note: I really only need to display the level for one of the streams. So that's what I am doing. But the things you posted are really interesting and I am going to experiment with them for other scripts!

Next challenge is to see if I can put multiple tasks on a dropdown list which can be accessed through a single icon on my homescreen. Then instead of having separate icons for low, med and high volume, I can have a single icon which triggers a list I can pick from. Less homescreen real estate. I'm assuming this is done with a "scene" ??? but have not looked at this yet.

Hi Thom.. just posting this to thank you again for your help. To make it clear, I understood you posted the steps that would be used to recreate the script that you exported from Tasker. Thank you for going through all of that trouble for me! It was helpful.

I was curious though whether there is also a way to import such a script into Tasker just for future reference. In the case of a more complicated one I'm sure that would come in handy. No need to answer this unless you feel like it because its something I can research myself. But either way, thank you again for all your excellent help! I think I've got this particular script working into my happy place now thanks to you.

Thom said:

What are displayed in this forum are Tasker Descriptions.

You can export a Project as XML to storage, send the file to another device, and then import it.

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Very cool! Thank you again for all the great info Thom.

Excellent! Thanks again. You've helped me familiarize myself a little more with Tasker. Very cool app!