Tasker: Wifi switch and Mobile Data toggle problem - Tasker Tips & Tricks
Android Marshmellow + rooted.
I'm using (like so many) a few profiles/taks to switch from Mobile Data to Wifi when i get home and back when i leave home. Works pretty nice but... not all the time.
The reason behind this is the difference on how Wifi and Mobile Data are activated.
If changed both manually (via the drop down menu) both act as a toggle.
But within tasker this behaviour changes. Wifi has an On / Off option, Mobile Data has to but that doesn't work anymore since Google changed the activation for Mobile Data which means that you can only set it with the help of Active Input and that turns it into a toggle.
And this creates a syncronisation problem between Wifi and Mobile Data.
I'll explain the difference:
If i set Wifi to ON Wifi goes ON.
If i set Wifi again to ON, Wifi stays ON. It will only go OFF when i set it to OFF.
It behaves as a physical switch.
Mobile Data however does not.
If i activate Mobile Data through Active Input and it's OFF, it will go ON. And when it's ON it will go OFF.
It behaves a toggle.
Now this works OK as long as everything is in sync.
If Mobile Data is ON and i reach home, Wifi is turned ON, i get the connected signal and Mobile Data is turned OFF. Same goes the other way, if i leave home, Wifi connection is lost and Wifi is turned Off. When the connection is lost Mobile Data is turned On again. Works nice.
But this can get out of sync because of the switch/toggle behaviour.
Example:
If i'm home, Wifi is ON and Mobile Data is OFF. If i turn Wifi OFF manually , the connection is lost and Mobile Data comes ON. If i turn Wifi back ON, Mobile Data goes OFF again.
But the other way there is a problem. If i'm not home and turn Mobile Data OFF somewhere and reach at home, tasker sees this, turns on Wifi and "toggles" Mobile Data to be OFF but since it's a toggle action, Mobile Data will come ON instead and both are then ON. And from then on the nice syncronisation between Wifi and Mobile Data is gone.
This manual override (like i like to call it) also doesn't update the variable i use which is logical since the Mobile Data wasn't "toggled" through Tasker.
I tried to solve this with a double variable check together with a variable i set when Mobile Data is connected (2G,3G,or 4G) and then toggle Mobile Data according to this and set/reset the variables but while this should work better in theory, it still doesn't work all the time because indoors, Mobile Data connection can be lost and then the Mobile Data toggles again to a state i don't want again setting a desyncronisation between Wifi and Mobile Data. In fact, due to this the syncronisation has become more unstable. So i removed the Mobile Data connected part again.
Questions:
- Is there a way to make Mobile Data work as a switch instead of a toggle?
- If not, is there a way to detect is the Mobile Data button has been touched (which i could then use in a variable)?
I'm using shell commands to switch mobile data on/off.
If your selinux is permissive, simply run a shell command with this:
Code:
svc data enable;
or
Code:
svc data disable;
If your selinux is enforcing, you need to add two lines, so it looks like this:
Code:
setenforce permissive;
svc data enable;
setenforce enforcing;
and respectively
Code:
setenforce permissive;
svc data disable;
setenforce enforcing;
Needless to say, you need root access for this.
I'm afraid that's currently above my head...
To add a shell command:
Code > Run Shell
Tick "root"
Put the codes from above in "Command"
Sukarn said:
To add a shell command:
Code > Run Shell
Tick "root"
Put the codes from above in "Command"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Exactly. [emoji106]
If i do that, can you then explain at least what it does exactly?
I guess it will turn on/off mobile data but on what basis?
How do these commands know when to turn it on or off depending on my wifi state?
What does " if your selinix is enforcing" means?
Edit: Got it partly working with the shell commands. Mobile data doesn't always turn off when wifi comes back on and is connected. It still can get out of sync.
It does not check the state of the mobile data if i interact and turn it on/off manually because it doesn't seem to know in what state is after playing around with it manually.
Also, tasker sometimes seems to get stuck somewhere in the middle of the code for disabling the mobile data.
Need to look a bit more into why tommorow...
Update:
Got it fully working with the shell commands and sync between Wifi and Mobile Data seems OK (for now at least).
I'm using the settings get global mobile_date command to put the status into a variable and then work with this and the wifi status variable to toggle Mobile Data on and off.
One thing i haven't found yet is what the settings get mobile_data exactly returns, the state of the toggle button in the notification screen or the state of the mobile data being connected?
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