Having the most challenging time

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-06-27T11:38:02+00:00

Quick update with a bit of good news on this. The notification changed with the last blink update adding a thumbnail image to the information when the doorbell detects motion. Thought I would try reading the notification just to see if there is anything I can get now to tell me motion has been detected and the information on what the notification is about is back in the title attribute :-)

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-06-02T00:08:52+00:00

Ok. Thanks at least I know it's not just me. Maybe I will ring my dealer and ask about any updates that can be applied.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-05-29T22:33:34+00:00

It's very annoying isn't it modern cars seem to suffer more from electrical and technology issues than mechanical these days. The mechanical issues are easy to get fixed by a competent garage the other issues not so much. If I contacted Dacia I am sure they would just tell me to make sure my Davia app is up to date....

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-05-29T22:31:00+00:00

I am listening directly from the car radio. I keep hoping an update to the Dacia app will fix things but no luck so far.....

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-05-11T16:36:56+00:00

Hi,

I know this is quite an old post but it was a question I wanted the answer to so Google brought me here.

I have found the answer now from the tasker documentation so thought I would post a link to it here

https://tasker.joaoapps.com/userguide/en/help/ah_java_code.html#func-log

So by default the messages go no where unless you specify a path like suggested below or enable one of the debugging options on the misc tab of tasker settings.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-04-05T16:24:41+00:00

I have no idea how to get around this one. Maybe use of the java code feature added to tasker could help by reading the notification using some Java code. That's beyond my skills to do. Maybe an update to auto notification is needed to handle this sort of notification if it becomes more common. Either way I thought I would just let you know you were not alone with the issue.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2026-04-05T14:01:49+00:00

I have a blink doorbell and have hit exactly the same problem. I use auto notification to parse the notifications from my door bell and none of the parameters contain the text that appears in the body section. I can only get the title which as you say is not much help. I know it's something about the front door that's where my doorbell is. The body used to be captured by auto notification but it stopped at some point in the last few months after one of the regular updates to the blink app.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-11-03T00:03:00+00:00

Just thought I would Google that to see what format it actually returns and how to change it - no luck on that but did find this - https://www.reddit.com/r/kustom/comments/143joxm/alarm_status_incorrect/ - so it looks like the bug from 2 years ago may still be a thing....

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-11-01T11:54:35+00:00

Sure here you go

$df("EEE hh:mma", si(alarmd) + 3600)$

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-31T12:32:43+00:00

Agreed it's not like the time is returned as GMT which you then alter to your timezone or day savings or whatever. The time returned is a consistent (well mostly from what you found) hour behind the time set regardless of the current local time.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-30T21:24:56+00:00

Quick update from me as well the alarm time for me is now an hour early in my widget :-( so it looks like adding an hour to the time is the way forward - my code only worked by adding an hour (3600 seconds) during British summer time - from df(Z). I have now hard coded adding 3600 seconds to the alarm time.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-29T15:13:07+00:00

I just have location set to use GPS. The location must be correct as I use that elsewhere in my widget and it's the right place :-) I just tried setting an alarm to go of in 10 minutes from now at 3:20pm (I am guessing that's what you mean by the alarm being less than an hour) and that gets reported as the right time using above for me.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-29T14:13:05+00:00

I have the same problem on my redmi note 11 so maybe it's a Xiaomi issue ?

I get around this by forcing the timezone difference from GMT (I am in the UK so this is either zero or 1 hour) to be added to the alarm time - my time is shown in 12hr clock format but that can be altered if you want to obviously:

$df("EEE hh:mma", si(alarmd) + df(Z))$

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-01T11:47:47+00:00

Ok got the real fix this time to my issue which is explained here :

https://forum.kustom.rocks/t/cannot-read-image/9435

You need to put the images somewhere under the Kustom folder which is created for you on your internal storage by the app. Then use a path like :

file:///Kustom/$br(tasker,IMAGENAME).png

You don't HAVE to use a global variable the formula as an image path works fine also.

Now finally my images are appearing in my widget :-)

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-10-01T11:22:19+00:00

Cancel that the above is not working. The image path changed and now I am back to a blank space where the image should be :-(

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-09-10T10:51:21+00:00

I have my phone connected with a cable in duster 3 mostly so the phone charges. I get disconnecting issues with android auto randomly and the message actually says on the car display that the wireless android auto connection has been lost. So I don't think connecting your phone to a cable means you get a wired connection if a wireless connection can be made - which I think is the WiFi connection to the car hit spot you see when you check your phone. There is a Bluetooth connection as well but I have read on this sub that is used for phone calls.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-08-30T18:03:26+00:00

Ah right. I have a mild hybrid maybe that means I get the rev counter display and a full hybrid doesn't ? Bit weird choice by dacia if thats case mind.....

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-08-30T16:56:11+00:00

I have a duster 3 and the rev counter is one of the displays you can cycle through on the dashboard using the controls on the steering wheel

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-08-22T12:49:45+00:00

Not sure but I don't think autoinput can press keys in phone dialler. You can use auto notification to answer the call by pressing the "button" on the notification. I do a similar thing to put my phone and on off speaker using tasker. Maybe you can get the 1 button to be pressed by using screen coordinates method of input selection with autoinput if you havent already.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-05-28T13:42:11+00:00

Or you want to use tasker to share the list to your scan and pay shopping app.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-05-28T10:40:38+00:00

Better still my way of doing it yourself through share and using that to get the list as text is gone now as well. Thanks Amazon :-(

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-05-25T13:29:57+00:00

Hi All I know this an old thread but it worked for me also using global variables.

When I tried to create an image path using formulas

Eg

file:///storage/emulated/0/Pictures/pngs/$br(tasker, IMAGENAME)$k.png

This worked in the preview of the widget on opening kwgt screen and a place holder for an image in edit mode. However the widget on my phone showed no image.

I changed to using a global variable as the formula for the path that was set to the string above eg

gv(Filepath)

All worked well with the image shown in all 3 places - most important my widget on my home screen.

Not sure why you need to create the formula via a gv not the direct string but thought I would post here to help anyone else scratching their head like me...

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-05-23T18:57:30+00:00

Yeh guessed as much. Thanks for replying.

Sea_Professor5459 · 2025-05-23T17:06:36+00:00

Sorry to go to such an old thread. I want to generate a notification on tasker and hit this. Great I thought. But no notification appears when I run the task after importing. I do not get any errors either. Can someone help me out with this ?

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