MacroDroid : Using password in Intent

Question

I use Adguard on my Pixel 6a. After a recent major upgrade, I noticed that the app is disabled erratically. Since this behavior is unpredictable, it is difficult to capture logs precisely for troubleshooting. I did manage once to capture and send them and they are taking too long to revert, so I thought of automation as an alternative.

Adguard knowledgebase suggests using Tasker set up as below. Adguard generates a password to authenticate the intent (preventing misuse by malicious apps) and this password needs to be a part of intent.

Tasker Implementation

MacroDroid Implementation

I tried replicating the pattern in Tasker above in MacroDroid unsuccessfully. Please note that the password, package name and class are correctly entered. The action I am trying now when Adguard is running is

stop stops the protection, no extra data required;

The MacroDroid implementation does not work. How do I fix this?

Edit: If I change the target to activity instead of broadcast, I get this error in notifications

Answer 1

I'd posted this in the MacroDroid forum and got a solution, which was tweaked and it works! Posting it here, so that it may help somebody else.

Essentially,one needs to declare the password as a local variable, with auto detect changed to string. However, for the person who suggested this, it worked in the default auto mode

YMMV!

The macro now looks like

Edit: After a few days of trial, the macro below works well.