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Trigger & Event based Automation and More for your Android devices

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How to prevent a Tasker profile from toggling back-and-forth?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Tasker 4.0u1 installed. … The problem I have is that in dim-light situations, the filter keeps turning on and turning off, which gets so annoying I have to pop into Tasker and shut the profile off. …
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Get list of filenames via Tasker

From your comments, it sounds like you have this code: List files Dir /storage/Tasker/project/test/ Variable %files match *.wav For Variable %files Items %files() Variable Split Name %files Splitter …
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How to prevent a Tasker profile from toggling back-and-forth?

Based on Izzy's suggestion, this is what I've come up with: Profile: Toggle Screen Filter Primary Context: Variable Set %LIGHT Secondary Context: Not in Netflix, Safe in Cloud, etc. Task: 1. Perform …
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Launch a "shortcut" in Tasker?

Strangely, this does not appear to be possible in Tasker, by default. However, I see there is the AutoShortcut app on Google Play which is meant to allow it. … Interestingly, Tasker itself will tell you about AutoShortcut (complete with a link to Google Play) if you press the magnifying glass icon when attempting to add a plugin action to a task (I'll update …
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Is it possible to get Tasker to play the next song in Spotify

WaveControl says it can control Spotify and has Tasker integration. I'm not a Spotify user, though, and it's much too late to check it out right now. …
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Can you block URLs with Tasker?

Tasker can't know when a URL is launched (my testing with the "Receive Intent" event had no success), nor does it have the necessary control over the browser to stop the page from loading. …
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Toggle "Unknown Sources" with Tasker

This can't be done in a totally automated fashion, as indicated by the accepted answer to this StackOverflow question. Basically, it's against the Android security model to allow Unknown Sources to be …
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When typing, automatically replace specific characters with others (ie accented uppercase Gr...

Just for completeness, have you tried the MessagEase keyboard? I don't know anything about its Greek features, but based on its English features, it's fairly likely to allow you to type what you want …
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Tasker profile always get loop

Two possibilities: set the Cooldown Time for the profile to greater than two hours. Or, have the task which controls the filter app set a variable when it's done, set the profile to ensure that variab …
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Tasker Shortcut Icons & Names Revert Back to Default After Every Reboot

From what Google tells me, this appears to be a TouchWiz issue. Try a different launcher and see if that fixes it.
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