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Hi,
How to long press home button or volume up/down button or power button of the phone using automagic.

And how to add this function in trigger??


Actually i want to take screenshot by long pressing home key or volume up/down key............

Hi,

Many devices already support a way to take screenshots by pressing power/volume/home buttons in some way. What device are you using?

Detecting hardware keys is quite difficult and requires a rooted device with command getevent.
Starting with the next version of Automagic you could use a trigger Command Output that constantly checks for button down/up events of the volume and power keys and execute a flow based on this. There are currently some issues in the new trigger Command Output that will be fixed in the next EAP version so I would not try to use this trigger at the moment.
The actual commands to use are very device specific but I can post a short tutorial in the forum to show how this can be done on a Nexus 5 after the new version is released on Google Play.

Regards,
Martin

Hi,

And how to long press the home key through action ??

Please give me the command to do the same as i was unable to find it after searching a lot........

Thanx in Advance!!

Hi,

Argh, I completely misunderstood your post, you want to send the keys and not detect the keys
In this case you might need to use the sendevent command. Here is a starting point: http://android.stackexchange.com/questi ... -sendevent

Some devices also support the command screencap to make screenshots. Following action should work when your device supports this command:
Execute Root Command: screencap -p /storage/emulated/0/screenshot.png

Regards,
Martin