I had to put in a pretty long delay on connection before playing, thanks to some quirks with BT audio media volume levels since Jelly Bean. However it stops very quickly when removed or when the car shuts off. The audio quality is superb as well. No more risking my life trying to play some music in my car.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Temporary solution
I'm still working on getting an embedded car music player working, but I've been so busy with so many other things recently that I've rigged together a temporary solution. I got a spare wireless charger and literally hacked it into a car dock (using leftover plastic and hot glue - beautiful). Then some Tasker scripts turn on Bluetooth when wireless charging and automatically start playing music when connected to a Bluetooth audio receiver (this one is perfect and really cheap).
I had to put in a pretty long delay on connection before playing, thanks to some quirks with BT audio media volume levels since Jelly Bean. However it stops very quickly when removed or when the car shuts off. The audio quality is superb as well. No more risking my life trying to play some music in my car.
I had to put in a pretty long delay on connection before playing, thanks to some quirks with BT audio media volume levels since Jelly Bean. However it stops very quickly when removed or when the car shuts off. The audio quality is superb as well. No more risking my life trying to play some music in my car.
Friday, January 3, 2014
A little thing
I've been out of town for a couple days, so as soon as I got back I was desperate to build something. My wireless charger for my new Nexus 5 happened to be here, so on a whim I looked to see if Tasker was capable of telling if this was the case. Sure enough, Tasker can detect the charger flawlessly. So what to do with it...
I decided opening the desk clock was a little boring. I also noticed Tasker had a whole bunch of image manipulation methods and also an HTTP Get method. So I threw together some Ruby to scrape Flickr for a random image and pushed it to Heroku.
It seems that you can no longer easily export Tasker profiles, or else I would post it here. But it is pretty simple:
I decided opening the desk clock was a little boring. I also noticed Tasker had a whole bunch of image manipulation methods and also an HTTP Get method. So I threw together some Ruby to scrape Flickr for a random image and pushed it to Heroku.
It seems that you can no longer easily export Tasker profiles, or else I would post it here. But it is pretty simple:
- Add a new Profile for Event > Power and set it to Wireless (or Any if you prefer)
- Create a new Task:
- Turn on Night Mode
- Set Variable %FLICKRIMG to Download/flickr.img (a static name will replace old images to save space)
- HTTP Get
Server: random-flickr-image.herokuapp.com
Output File: %FLICKRIMG - Set Wallpaper to %FLICKRIMG
- Also create an Exit Task to turn Night Mode back off and set the wallpaper back to normal (or don't, and have a new wallpaper for the day!)
Here's a video of it in action. For a 3 hour project, I'm pretty excited.
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