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I just wanted to move a simple task from Tasker to Automagic:

Trigger: Physical keyboard has been closed
Task: Show a toast message (more actions later)

But there seems to be no condition for the physical keyboard (e.g. on a Blackberry PRIV). Could this be added, please?

If your phone is rooted, you could check from the logs if there's relevant event.

The BlackBerry can't be rooted. Tasker and Automate have a native trigger for that, so there seems to be some way to catch that.

EDIT: Here's a page from BlackBerry about how to detect physical keyboard in Android: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2015/11/r ... rd-part-1/

Any progress here?

The Android way is described here and uses onConfigurationChanged and the Configuration object. It doesn't look that complicated.

Thanks for the links! This should be quite straight forward to add. I'll add it to the todo-list.
Would be great if you could test if it's working properly on your device once it's implemented since I don't have any device with a hardware keyboard anymore.

Regards,
Martin

Martin wrote:Would be great if you could test if it's working properly on your device once it's implemented since I don't have any device with a hardware keyboard anymore.

Of course! Thank you!

Tested it in the current EAP version and it seems to work fine on my BlackBerry PRIV.

One suggestion: You could supply the keyboard_type variable in the opened/closed condition already so I don't have to figure it out using the condition later. Maybe even make opened/closed checkboxes (in the trigger) and set a variable keyboard_state to "open" or "closed" depending on the state (or let the script figure it out with the state condition).