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Martin, what would you suggest is the best location awareness flow? Obviously battery use is important. Would turning on the GPS and getting location be better or the same? What about triggering based on a cell tower to scan for wifi or GPS?

I'm curious the answer to this as well. I will need to implement something like this if this is the best solution to periodic wifi scanning.

My only thought to your implementatin is that 1m intervals is pretty frequent. I would do 3-5 minutes depending on your urgency.

Thanks for the info. I will subscribe to your other post to see what sort of response you get. Automagic seems to be a great app but the upfront learning curve is steep.

I want to use the Periodic Location Update: (Network) to identify a location based on WiFi SSID present. I don't necessarily want to turn WiFi on or connect to the SSID I just want to set settings based on the SSID presence. I currently have the Flow Setup as Trigger: Periodic Location Update: Every...

Thanks for the reply. I checked the help and it doesn't specify the syntax fot the SSID question. But that had me wondering if I am looking at the right WiFi context. I am using Wifi available and am trying to use that as in wifi near me but not connected to. Is this the right application of WiFi Av...

Hello. I just started checking out Automagic this morning and I am coming from Tasker currently and have used Llama heavily. I'm finding the pervious experiences are making the learning curve a little steeper. I was hoping I could get a couple of basic questions answered to get me started. Is there ...