First attempt at intent

[postaletter]

Hi. I have been using Automagic for year but have never needed to deal with intents before. I would really like to start/stop background recording of a dash cam app I have just started using. I found some information on the app website (http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager/tasker). I tried a Start Activity with "com.dailyroads.background.STOP_VIDEO" as the action but get the following error. The background recording was running at the time. Please help

19.02.2017 13:21:11.920 [Manual Test] End executing action 'Start Activity: com.dailyroads.background.STOP_VIDEO ' and exception No Activity found to handle Intent { act=com.dailyroads.background.STOP_VIDEO flg=0x10000000 VirtualScreenParam=Params{mDisplayId=-1, null, mFlags=0x00000000)} }
19.02.2017 13:21:12.123 [Manual Test] Flow ends execution due to errors
19.02.2017 13:21:12.123 [Manual Test] Error:
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=com.dailyroads.background.STOP_VIDEO flg=0x10000000 VirtualScreenParam=Params{mDisplayId=-1, null, mFlags=0x00000000)} }
at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1878)
at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1545)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:739)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:721)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:345)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.a.ia.a(SourceFile:352)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.a.d.a(SourceFile:442)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.c.e.a(SourceFile:624)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.c.e.b(SourceFile:581)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.c.o.a(SourceFile:58)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.c.c.e.a(SourceFile:541)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.ActionActivity.h(SourceFile:1107)
at ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.ActionActivity.onOptionsItemSelected(SourceFile:969)
at android.app.Activity.onMenuItemSelected(Activity.java:3204)
at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow.onMenuItemSelected(PhoneWindow.java:1259)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.dispatchMenuItemSelected(MenuBuilder.java:801)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.invoke(MenuItemImpl.java:155)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction(MenuBuilder.java:954)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction(MenuBuilder.java:944)
at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuPopupHelper.onItemClick(MenuPopupHelper.java:417)
at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:345)
at android.widget.AbsListView.performItemClick(AbsListView.java:1547)
at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:3821)
at android.widget.AbsListView$3.run(AbsListView.java:5841)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:158)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7229)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

[Martin]

Hi,

Start Activity is the correct action to use in this case. According to their documentation you have to use one of the following actions:

com.dailyroads.intent.action.START_VIDEO
com.dailyroads.intent.action.STOP_VIDEO
com.dailyroads.intent.action.PROTECT_VIDEO
com.dailyroads.intent.action.START_PHOTO
com.dailyroads.intent.action.STOP_PHOTO
com.dailyroads.intent.action.STOP_APP
com.dailyroads.intent.action.STOP_APP_DEFAULT

The exception shows that you omitted .intent.

Regards,
Martin

[Martin]

I just saw that they also support broadcast intents to keep the app in the background (see section Background broadcast intents on their site). You can send such intents with action Send Broadcast.

Regards,
Martin

[postaletter]

Thanks heaps Martin. The Send Broadcast was what I needed.

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