Tasker/Watchmaker Help

[sambarlick]

These are the only things watchmaker can do.

[Bushmills]

"Run Script" looks interesting - a script should be able to touch a file or display/update a notification.

[sambarlick]

I've been working on sending a variable to watchmaker and I've been able to get watchmaker to see the variable I'm sending but watchmaker seems to only read the variable and not the value.

I've attached the test flow I'm working on (ignore the triggers) so simply I'm entering the string "Hello World" into the variable temp. Then using the watchmaker plugin to send a tasker variable to watchmaker. I've also I attached the screenshot of what watchmaker sees.

http://automagic4android.com/flow.php?i ... e9a9e33839

[sambarlick]

"Run Script" looks interesting - a script should be able to touch a file or display/update a notification.

The problem I have now with Run script is that watchmaker uses Lua and I'm a complete novice when it comes to anything other than C.

If I write {ttemp} = "Hello World" assuming it will send a tasker variable, the script editor reports violations.

The extra t at the start is for watchmaker to recognise it as a tasker variable.

But even if I could get the Lua language correct how can automagic be triggered?

[Bushmills]

Trying to set lua variables is pointless, as Automagic doesn't monitor those. Enclosing them in curly brackets won't change that. And lua can't set Automagic variables, because it doesn't “see“ them - therefore is the Automagic global variable trigger pointless too.

But even if I could get the Lua language correct how can automagic be triggered?

As suggested, use script to touch a file, or write a notification - Automagic can trigger on those.

[sambarlick]

Yea i know that now, that's why I said ignore the triggers.

For now the only way I can trigger a flow from my watch is via the shortcuts that are manually triggered.

I'm trying to work on passing a variable to watchmaker from automagic.

[sambarlick]

As suggested, use script to touch a file, or write a notification - Automagic can trigger on those.

How do I do that?

[Bushmills]

By using the file monitor trigger, or the status bar notification trigger. I'm not aware of their actual English names, because my device is localised differently (trigger names change with localisation).

[sambarlick]

I'm sorry, I'm not being clear, how do I get watchmaker to edit a file or create a notification?

[Bushmills]

That's best answered by somebody who knows watchmaker well enough, or lua better than I do.
My involvement with lua came to a sudden halt when I noticed that I needed external libraries for bitwise logic operators, and I haven't touched it since.