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11. Only want this happening on weekdays? If you need to add specific days to the
time context, press the time part of the profile and select ‘Add’.
12. Choose the ‘Day’ context. From here you can either specify exact dates, or by
changing the drop-down from ‘Month Day’ to ‘Week Day’ choose days of the week.
13. Pick your days and hit ‘Done’. Night Mode will only now activate on those days,
at those times.
If you don’t want the phone to go into airplane mode (i.e. entirely shut off from the
outside world) just select different options from the ‘Net’ menu. Turn off ‘mobile data’,
‘wifi’ and ‘auto-sync’ will effectively leave only 2G functions (calls and texts) active so
people can still ring/text you. Add to the Task options if you also want to drop the
ringer volume for example.
The procedure in number 8 is well worth playing with. Go through all the various
options to see what Tasker is capable of switching on and off, and you start to get a
feel for other potential profiles.
The next one uses the ‘Cell Near’ feature to tell when I am home. To explain, Tasker
has several ways of determining where you are. Obviously GPS is the most
accurate, but any profile with GPS context in it will mean Tasker periodically turns
GPS on to see where you are. This uses power, and should only be used if a precise
location fix is required. ‘Cell Near’ is much much better for general use, as it only
looks at which cell tower you are connected to (which is on all the time anyway for
calls and texts) and when it sees the right cell tower with the right signal strength, it
knows you are home. Simple but effective.
Profile 2: Home Mode.
1. Press ‘New’ to create a new Profile.
2. Name it ‘Home Mode’ or whatever you want and press ‘OK’.
3. Choose the ‘State’ context.
4. Choose ‘Cell Near’ context. (Again have a look around in here to see what else is
available!)
5. It then brings up a big blank box where it will show your nearest cell tower, but you
need to scan for them first. Hit the ‘Scan’ button.
6. Leave this going for a few minutes. Cell tower signal strengths can fluctuate. You
should see something like GSM:37.22720 / 10 <. The first bit is the cell tower
number, the last bit is the signal strength.
7. After a few minutes hit the ‘Stop’ button. Then the ‘Done’ button.
8. Select ‘New Task’ and then ‘OK’.