App for automatic turning bluetooth on/off while driving

[krumme]

Turning on when fx. driving faster than 20km/h
So phone fx. can stay in bag, and turn on the bt and connect to the car audio bluetooth.
For android

Does it exist ?

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

Tasker is what you're looking for. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you understand how it works there isn't a whole lot you can't do with it.

 

[Zaap]

Yup. Tasker. It makes a smart phone truly smart.

 

[shabby]

Tasker will work but not based on speed, there's no setting that i know of that allows your to trigger something based on your speed from the gps sensor. I have mine set that if wifi is disconnected it will turn on bluetooth, so if i leave home or work and im not connected to wifi anymore bluetooth will turn on and it'll connect to the car.

 

[jhansman]

I use an app called Auto Connect that detects your phone's motion, turns BT on, and i (in my case) connects it to my head unit for music playback. It's not perfect (occasionally I have to nudge it to make the connection) but it works as it should 95% of the time and is free.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDUwMSwiY29tLkF1dG9Db25uZWN0Il0

 

[vshah]

if your phone has an nfc reader you could use tasker + nfc

 

[podspi]

Tasker will work but not based on speed, there's no setting that i know of that allows your to trigger something based on your speed from the gps sensor. I have mine set that if wifi is disconnected it will turn on bluetooth, so if i leave home or work and im not connected to wifi anymore bluetooth will turn on and it'll connect to the car.

What you could do is:

If not connected to Home Wifi or Work Wifi
On Mon - Fri
Between 5pm ~ 8pm (or whatever)
Connect BT.

I personally have my phone auto-mute at work. It's awesome because I don't have to remember to turn it on or off. It's on at home, off at work.

 

[krumme]

if your phone has an nfc reader you could use tasker + nfc

Its a Sgs3, and it have nfc, will it work then? is there a specielt setting to use?

 

[vshah]

Its a Sgs3, and it have nfc, will it work then? is there a specielt setting to use?

read this article. you'll need to buy NFC tags, but they're pretty cheap and the end result is awesome.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ating-simple-tasks-with-an-nfc-capable-phone/

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

I'm currently using a fairly convoluted scheme of when WiFi is on and disconnected from certain APs, etc to determine whether or not to turn Bluetooth on. I like this NFC idea. Between that and the inductive mod on my Nexus that should work very well.

 

[krumme]

read this article. you'll need to buy NFC tags, but they're pretty cheap and the end result is awesome.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ating-simple-tasks-with-an-nfc-capable-phone/

Well that is some interesting stuff for sure, but i will have to get used to the thinking

 

[vshah]

personally, since I use AC chargers at work and home, and a usb charger in the car (lower power charger), my car profile is tied to my "charge (usb)" instead of "charge (AC)"

 

[Jinny]

Tasker will work but not based on speed, there's no setting that i know of that allows your to trigger something based on your speed from the gps sensor. I have mine set that if wifi is disconnected it will turn on bluetooth, so if i leave home or work and im not connected to wifi anymore bluetooth will turn on and it'll connect to the car.

this is not true.

tasker can work based on speed with the If condition to %LOCSPD

 

[Headcase_Fargone]

I imagine that would use an awful lot of juice though.

 

[vshah]

this is not true.

tasker can work based on speed with the If condition to %LOCSPD

how does it know when to poll the GPS for a speed check? doing it on an interval would drain battery like nothing else.

 

[Jinny]

i have no clue since i always have it charging in my car (with bluetooth on and gps , its pretty much a requirement). but it does answer the OP.

the way i have tasker setup in my car is this
1) once charger is plugged in, turn on BT for 3 minutes (if not connected , turn bt off)
2) once/if bt is connected to car audio, turn on car mode/gps/auto rotate/displays always on.
3) once charger is unplugged, disable car mode/ set everything back to normal.

 

[QueBert]

The Tasker for speed thing seems like it would be a horrible idea. Unless it only updated the speed every few minutes it would kill the battery. And if it updated really frequently, and somehow didn't drain the battery in turbo mode. If OP was on a call and dropped below 20km/h due to traffic or something it would mess up the call.

NFC + Tasker for a car profile would would great. Just have it turn on when you get in your car and set up a 2nd profile to reverse it when you get out of the car. I'll say I have no programming background, and I know Tasker isn't technically programming, I find it freaking confused. And it's compounded by god awful documentation. A great program if you understand it, or can stick with it long enough to learn it though.