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I am running an asus tablet with Android 5.01 and finding Automagic super - but the timer triggers (Timer, Periodic TImer, Periodic Timer Inexact) don't work. Is that a problem on some hardware or do I have a setting that needs to be modified? I have all the accesses set to on.

Hi,

Maybe there are some kind of battery saving features of the tablet turned on. Please check the system settings and disable the battery optimizations for Automagic or even completely. Also try to reboot the device once since the triggers usually work somewhat even when battery saving features are turned on. Also check that the setting Show status icon of Automagic is turned on and that no app killers are running on your device.

Regards,
Martin

Thanks for your reply. I've been busy with other projects and just getting back to. Shutting off any power saving and APP management apps seem now to allow the timer functions to work. One more item has come up. The action on global variable change does not work. I kind of assumed that they were all connected. Can you speculate on why this feature is not working?

Hi,

This trigger works for me. Are you sure that you assign a new value to the variable (e.g. var = "xyz"). Just adding a value within a list or map does not execute the trigger for performance reasons (e.g. addElement(list, "xyz")).

Regards,
Martin

It also works for me on my nexus so I actually test it by by creating a flow that toggles the variable with manual execution. The Asus pad is my problem.

Please verify that there are no typos in the variable names and that the flow with the global variable trigger is enabled.
Could you please enable Debug Log in the preferences of Automagic, execute the flow again and then send the log and flows to me (menu->Manage->Log, menu->Send Log) if it still does not work?

Thanks & Regards,
Martin

Verified the spelling and consistency and sent a log. No log from trigger flow since nothing triggered