Tasker Plugin for EventGhost Android app

[liquid8]

Hi all,

I have uploaded a Tasker Plugin to the Android Market. If you use the EventGhost Android app, and Tasker, this allows you to setup a macro in EventGhost, and execute a Tasker task. Tasker is a great app, it provides many actions you can perform on an incoming event, so this extends the capabilities of the Android app greatly!

For example:

An action on my EventGhost PC triggers and sends an event to my Android device
My Android device has a macro configured so when it receives the event, it runs a Tasker task that could do many things, like silent my device, etc..

I'd be happy to hear feedback... Enjoy!

liquid8

[The Coon]

Hello Liquid8,

I just installed your plugin and playing with it. I'm wondering, is it possible to get the plugin to work the other way around? I mean sending an eventghost event from tasker.

Thanks and best regards,

Wilco

[Stupifier]

I as well would like this. I want Tasker to be able to Send Evenghost actions. I always thought people wanted to send events to PC from Phone more then Receive events from PC to their Phone. Seriously....I think I'm not alone here. The Tasker Plugin should really be made to allow Tasker to send Evenghost Ghosts actions

[bruinlax]

i do that, easy. just install the webserver plugin, configure it and, have it fire off an HTTP get request with an eventname of your choice. I have tasker tell eventghost based on my location if i'm at home or at work for instance.


see attached
put username:[email protected]:port
then the path ?[event to fire]

[Stupifier]

This worked great. I'm glad I figured out a way to get Tasker to fire EventGhost actions

[medelay]

hi guys,
I have been looking all over for this, but i cant seem to get the get http to work for me i already red the tasker wiki.
It keeps saying erro socket time error. Any help would be aprreciated.

[quantumx]

Is there a method for doing android-to-android communication without the need for a computer to act in-between? HTTP Post would seem like a logical option but I have not bee able to get the syntax of the command correct.

[Stupifier]

hi guys,
I have been looking all over for this, but i cant seem to get the get http to work for me i already red the tasker wiki.
It keeps saying erro socket time error. Any help would be aprreciated.

Troubleshoot your network connection. That error basically means you are either not typing in the correct address to the computer Event Ghost is installed on, or you have not properly setup your router/network to accept the specific connection (open ports etc).

[medelay]

Figured it out, somehow i couldn't port forward port 80 properly choose another port that i could port forward and now it works.
Thanks alot !

[medelay]

Is it posible to also send a payload with the http get command in tasker ?

[terRemote]

Hey,

I just saw this post and wanted to make you aware of the new Tasker Plugin I uploaded the other day. It communicates between Tasker and terRemote.
For those experiencing problems with communication between Tasker and EventGhost or those who want to use a remote app with Tasker / EventGhost, this might be interesting.
It supports full payloads- and variables-sending between all these three entities, also between two Android devices.

There is a free version of terRemote that comes with a 30-days trial period. It would be great if those who are interested could try it out and maybe report bugs and/or feature requests. Especially for those aspects regarding Tasker communication.

Chris

[werdna219]

Hey A little help. I have everything working, thank you for this thread. Can someone write a python script that takes the spotify "get artist name" and sends it to the android event?

Thanks so much

[abuttino]

Where is the Eventghost plugin for this?

[terRemote]

Where is the Eventghost plugin for this?

terRemote works with the regular network sender and network receiver plugins. You can forward messages "EG -> terRemote -> Tasker" and the other way around.
For setting up the communication, please refer to http://www.terremote.com/tutorials.

Best
Chris

[shawneric]

Hi guys,

Sorry to bring back an old thread. I can get EventGhost to talk with my phone easy, which is awesome and I'm loving it. I'm fairly new to all of this, but I can't seem to get tasker on android to talk back to EventGhost on my computer. I've configured the ip address (both local 192.168.*.* ip address AND my public ip address with ports forwarded) and when I click "Find" it says it can't find the eventghost server, but when I click "find", event ghost shows a new event with "It Works!" so I'm guessing it IS communicating.

I tried to follow the tutorial here for terRemote, but it's not very detailed and is poorly written. There isn't any 'step by step' procedure, no real pictures or troubleshooting steps. It would be more beneficial to include a youtube video. Until then, here's the problem I'm having with the tutorial:

Create a macro and make it react to the event "Forward.*". This string captures all events starting with "Forward." and stores the part matched by the star in the variable "match.0". Add an EventGhost action to the macro and set it up as usual. I choose the event name "${match.0}" so that whenever an event "Tasker.event_name" comes from Tasker, I send the event string "event_name" to EventGhost. Alternatively, you can also write "Tasker.${match.0}" or "${event_string}" to send the whole event string, including the prefix "Tasker.".

This comes from here: http://www.terremote.com/tutorials/exam ... eventghost

but it's not specific on WHERE I should make this macro. Do I make the macro in EventGhost? do I make it in the EventGhost Android App? Do I make the Macro in TerRemote? There REALLY needs to be a video made showing and outlining exactly how to do this, because for the life of me, I'm totally lost. It might seem interesting to you folks, but it's flying right past me. Does anyone have a better tutorial on how to get the Android Tasker App to send events to EventGhost on Windows PC please?