You replied before I finish my edit, ita !, so I'd point you back to my previous post. Tasker does it, it's actually very easy to set up. I'll be testing it in about an hour - I made a test profile that will pop up a notification once I'm at my breastfeeding class. I'll let you know if it works, though probably not until tomorrow morning.
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Gris - Nov 15, 2011 1:42:39 pm PST #18511 of 25501
Hey. New board.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2011 2:44:48 pm PST #18512 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Gris. In the meanwhile I found the Locale Calendar Plug-in which uses calendar events as conditions, so I'm set.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2011 3:15:52 pm PST #18513 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Looking at Tasker, it seems it supports Locale plugins. That's pretty nifty. But since I've bought Locale for both my phone and my tablet, I'll stick with that for now for both devices. Until I find something it can't do that's very important.
Something I bet Tasker can do, and I haven't worked out if Locale is doing out of the box, is identifying a setting by WIFI network. I mean, GPS and cell towers get you so far (like to my office building), but the only way to tell my office from the cafe (11th floor vs 1st) is that their networks have different SSIDs. Locale has a "Train" option that lets you select an SSID, but documentation is for shit, and I have no idea what that actually does.
Gris - Nov 15, 2011 5:09:01 pm PST #18514 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Tasker can indeed do that. It can find locations by wireless points it is near or connected to. The calendar setting worked perfectly, by the way.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2011 5:16:08 pm PST #18515 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I found the help page for Locale, and it does "train" by narrowing it down by WIFI access points. I need to test tomorrow to see if it can tell the floors of my work building apart.
Now I'm sifting through plugins, seeing what I haven't thought of doing yet...
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2011 6:30:29 pm PST #18516 of 25501
brillig
I have found a USB device in my house that confuses me. It has two cables that branch off the main cable at one end, one with a USB plug and the other with an audio jack. At the other end is a 3-port USB hub and a cylindrical bit that rotates to a 90-degree angle from the plane of the hub. Hubby things the rotating bit may be a microphone. There are no words on the device that I can Google. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I plugged it into my computer and it was IDed as a generic USB hub. So, bonus, a new hub, but I'm curious as to the rest of it.
le nubian - Nov 15, 2011 6:56:20 pm PST #18517 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
alien technology, Connie.
do you have strange fillings?
Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2011 6:59:28 pm PST #18518 of 25501
brillig
there was that root canal a year ago . . .
Jon B. - Nov 16, 2011 3:55:49 am PST #18519 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Connie, is it this? [link]
Connie Neil - Nov 16, 2011 7:00:50 am PST #18520 of 25501
brillig
Yes, that's it exactly! Thank you!
and it's only compatible up to XP, which may be why it didn't work on my 64-bit Win7 system.