I use tasker to grab images for current weather and forcast. My issue is getting the image to display. I'll attach what I have that isn't working
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I would like to have a zooper widget popup notification with the following information:
Contact Photo
Sender's name
SMS message
Reply button
.......appear when I receive an SMS.
I would like the Contact Photo to appear in a layer UNDER the circle in the top left corner of the background image (see attached image).
I tried to create a Scene in Tasker, using this Tutorial: (http://taskerfans.blogspot.com/2013/05/popup-sms-notifier-via-tasker-scene.html?m=1), but the contact photo does not show up for some reason. The Sender's # and message inside the SMS show up in the Tasker Scene, so I have created variables for that information, but I'd like to try to incorporate that into Zooper Widget. So I guess my questions are:
Can Zooper Widget be used as an SMS Popup w/ or w/out the purchase of the popup widget app?
Can Tasker variables for Contact Photo be used?
Is there some sort of SMS Popup example here on XDA that I may be able to use as a reference? Searching, but haven't found...
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SMS Contact Photo Zooper Widget
So, I have already designed a widget that displays SMS count. I also have the popup widget app and have enabled a shortcut on the SMS count to open another Zooper widget.
This Zooper widget will display my last received SMS. I am having a bit of trouble displaying the Contact Photo.
I created a profile in Tasker
Profile: SMSpop
Event: Received Text
Type: Any
Task: txt pop
1. Test: Type - Contact Photo URI, Data - %SMSRF, Store Result in: %contactphoto (Continue Task after Error)
2. Plugins/Zooper Widget Pro Variable: Configuration: #TContact Photo# = %contactphoto
I have the following in the advanced parameters of the bitmap yet I am not seeing the contact photo appears. It actually does appear in the Scene I created with Tasker, but Tasker doesn't allow me accurate resizing and image placement like zooper does.
even tried w/out the bracketed b's and it still didn't work.
harpua1982 said:
So, I have already designed a widget that displays SMS count. I also have the popup widget app and have enabled a shortcut on the SMS count to open another Zooper widget.
This Zooper widget will display my last received SMS. I am having a bit of trouble displaying the Contact Photo.
I created a profile in Tasker
Profile: SMSpop
Event: Received Text
Type: Any
Task: txt pop
1. Test: Type - Contact Photo URI, Data - %SMSRF, Store Result in: %contactphoto (Continue Task after Error)
2. Plugins/Zooper Widget Pro Variable: Configuration: #TContact Photo# = %contactphoto
I have the following in the advanced parameters of the bitmap yet I am not seeing the contact photo appears. It actually does appear in the Scene I created with Tasker, but Tasker doesn't allow me accurate resizing and image placement like zooper does.
even tried w/out the bracketed b's and it still didn't work.
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The problem here is, that Zooper only can load pictures from the sdcard. The path you get through the task you posted is an internal path instead, which Zooper doesn't currently support. What you would need to do is to save the picture in Tasker to the sdcard and then push that sdcard location to Zooper. Then this should work I think.
kwerdenker said:
The problem here is, that Zooper only can load pictures from the sdcard. The path you get through the task you posted is an internal path instead, which Zooper doesn't currently support. What you would need to do is to save the picture in Tasker to the sdcard and then push that sdcard location to Zooper. Then this should work I think.
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hmm. Didn't know that. Not exactly sure how I can pass that variable set for Contact Photo URI to the SD yet, but it's a start...Thanks.
Edit: Media Utilities saves coverart to internal memory and is able to display in Zooper.
/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/mu_coverart
sdcard0 being internal, of course.
Tried to copy contents listed in screenshot above, but Tasker is unable to locate that directory. Es File browser can't either. I'm rooted and should have the correct permissions.
So I was wondering if there is a way to set a variable to something, then change it dynamically based on an event. Here is an example of an end goal with what I mean. So you make a widget that shows the forecast and all items have some form of
[bo]$#TMU_ISPLAYING#=1?0:100$[/bo]
To hide if media is playing (when combined with media utilities). I would like to take this a bit further and say, if I have that same widget, a forecast widget and down in the corner is an icon, by clicking that icon(the event) it changes the value of a variable in zooper, and the widget can change based on that. Much like with the TMU_ISPLAYING, except with this, your click changes the variable and not an outside app. Does anyone know if this is possible at all, even just a very random workaround solution would be cool, I just want to be able to change a widget based on a click. Thanks in advance.
danwguy said:
So I was wondering if there is a way to set a variable to something, then change it dynamically based on an event. Here is an example of an end goal with what I mean. So you make a widget that shows the forecast and all items have some form of
[bo]$#TMU_ISPLAYING#=1?0:100$[/bo]
To hide if media is playing (when combined with media utilities). I would like to take this a bit further and say, if I have that same widget, a forecast widget and down in the corner is an icon, by clicking that icon(the event) it changes the value of a variable in zooper, and the widget can change based on that. Much like with the TMU_ISPLAYING, except with this, your click changes the variable and not an outside app. Does anyone know if this is possible at all, even just a very random workaround solution would be cool, I just want to be able to change a widget based on a click. Thanks in advance.
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This is possible with Tasker. Zooper has a built-in Tasker plugin so you can send data from Tasker to Zooper and I have used it for the same thing you are trying to do. If you are used to work with Tasker it's really easy to setup but if you are new to Tasker, it might take you a bit to figure it out. Here is a link on how this generally works: http://www.jagwar.de/en/zooper-tasker-variables/. To get you started, you can find my task here. To use Tasker tasks from Zooper, you set them as a Module OnTap action via the Tasker shortcut action.
Hope this helps you out enough to get you going
Has anyone figured out a way to use an image from the web and add them to the layout in the zooper widget? Note, I want it to refresh every hour or two, not talking about saving the image to SD then inserting in Zooper. I want Zooper to use the and refresh the image from the web directly. This would be for weather or traffic images like this:
http://sirocco.accuweather.com/sat_mosaic_400x300_public/rs/isarIN_.gif
Could I use tasker to copy the image to SD every hour; would Zooper automatically refresh the image if it changed on SD?
Is there any way to cause Zooper to redraw itself externally (via Tasker for example). I'd like to have it update to a new weather map image that I download regularly with Tasker.
Thanks!
itesla said:
Is there any way to cause Zooper to redraw itself externally (via Tasker for example). I'd like to have it update to a new weather map image that I download regularly with Tasker.
Thanks!
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I think you have to use the same trick Media Utilities uses: save the image every time under a different name (this is important to overcome Zooper's internal caching) and then push the new path as a variable to Zooper via it's Tasker plugin. Use that variable as the input for the bitmap absolute path tags in Zooper and it should refresh the picture anytime you send it a new file path. You probably have to only alternate between two filenames but I never have tested it so I'm not sure.
I would like to change the widget locality for a module using a tasker scene. The idea is to click on a hotspot in the zooper widget which starts a tasker scene. From there, I pick a location. This sets a zooper variable in tasker to the new location. Up to here there's no problem. But I don't see how I can use the zooper variable to change the locality of the widget. Is there a way to do it?
VeryGenericUser said:
I would like to change the widget locality for a module using a tasker scene. The idea is to click on a hotspot in the zooper widget which starts a tasker scene. From there, I pick a location. This sets a zooper variable in tasker to the new location. Up to here there's no problem. But I don't see how I can use the zooper variable to change the locality of the widget. Is there a way to do it?
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No, Zooper currently doesn't support changing the location via external means
@VeryGenericUser are you trying to get a map of your current location? Directions from where you are to home or someplace else?
MrBiggzz said:
@VeryGenericUser are you trying to get a map of your current location? Directions from where you are to home or someplace else?
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No. The idea was to change the location for the weather forecast. I wanted to have a Zooper weather widget for my current location by default, but still be able to manually change the location with two clicks right from my home screen, for example to set the locality to the place I'm about to travel to.
OK. Why don't you make your Tasker scene to change the parameters of an HTTP GET to something like Yahoo weather. In your scene change the city or zip code and be able to enable or disable the profile.
In Zooper hide the travel weather if you don't have it and show it if you do.
I haven't had the chance to play with scenes yet. Scraping an RSS feed for weather I know how. Have to do a bunch of variable splits.
If you want I can create the RSS scrape and then you can do what you need to do.
Let me know!
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@MrBiggzz
Thanks, that might be a way to do it, but it would be more elaborate. Maybe I'll get to it one day when I have more time.