Screen status : Vertical/Horizontal

[Karby]

Hi from Japan.

I wanna add the feature that "screen orientation" can be trigger or terms of action.
For example, if the screen orientation is horizontal, made screen vertical.
lt can change this app more useful.

What do you whink with this idea?

 

[Qarboz]

Hi from Japan.

I wanna add the feature that "screen orientation" can be trigger or terms of action.
For example, if the screen orientation is horizontal, made screen vertical.
lt can change this app more useful.

What do you whink with this idea?

What you ask for already exists.
Trigger: Screen Orientation
Action: Force Screen Rotation

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[Karby]

What you ask for already exists.
Trigger: Screen Orientation
Action: Force Screen Rotation

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Thanks for your help. But Iwanna use screen orientation as constraints.

Ex, display notification when 10 minutes have passed since the launch of a particular application, but only when the screen is horizontal.

Like this. Do you have any idea?

 

[Qarboz]

Thanks for your help. But Iwanna use screen orientation as constraints.

Ex, display notification when 10 minutes have passed since the launch of a particular application, but only when the screen is horizontal.

Like this. Do you have any idea?

Initially, your request was different....

The constraint for screen orientation is currently not there, and it might be a good idea.
In the meantime, you can work around this by creating a new macro with the Screen Orientation trigger that sets a global bool variable to True when the screen is Landscape and False when the screen is Portrait, and use the state of the variable as a constraint in other macros/actions

 

[Endercraft]

One of these two will do what you want.

 

[Qarboz]

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One of these two will do what you want.

I had not seen that
Maybe it was because I searched for screen and not device...

 

[Qarboz]

Looking closer it's not the same. The orientation of the device detected by the sensor is not necessarily the orientation of the screen, for example if the screen was locked in portrait and the device is in landscape; the result may not be as expected

 

[Endercraft]

Looking closer it's not the same. The orientation of the device detected by the sensor is not necessarily the orientation of the screen, for example if the screen was locked in portrait and the device is in landscape; the result may not be as expected

That's why I mentioned both, I wasn't sure if @Karby wanted the real life orientation or the screen orientation.

 

[Qarboz]

That's why I mentioned both, I wasn't sure if @Karby wanted the real life orientation or the screen orientation.

Which of the two constraints should be used to detect that the screen is in portrait or landscape position?

 

[Endercraft]

It would be device orientation.

 

[Qarboz]

It would be device orientation.
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As I wrote earlier, it is not always correct because the screen may be locked in landscape mode but the device has been temporarily turned to vertical position.

 

[Endercraft]

I tried to test it, for phones it seems the screen is always put in portrait when you turn the screen off but for other devices I'm not sure. Depending on the situation combining these 2 triggers (device orientation if screen on, device facing if screen off) would be the way to do it.

 

[Qarboz]

I tried to test it, for phones it seems the screen is always put in portrait when you turn the screen off but for other devices I'm not sure. Depending on the situation combining these 2 triggers (device orientation if screen on, device facing if screen off) would be the way to do it.

Sorry, but I don't speak English and use DeepL for translation, which evidently doesn't work well.
I will try to rewrite.
There is no portrait/landscape screen constraint. And the constraints you propose are not the same thing; for some cases they may work well, for others they may not. E.g. there are apps that force the screen to rotate to landscape, such as some games; when in use the screen remains in landscape even if the device is rotated to portrait, in this case the Device Orientation constraint does not match the screen rotation.

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[LinerSeven]

As Qarboz mentioned, the size of the display does not seem to change depending on the orientation of the device.

I would like to have the magic text for screen rotation status too.

 

[Karby]

Sorry, but I don't speak English and use DeepL for translation, which evidently doesn't work well.
I will try to rewrite.
There is no portrait/landscape screen constraint. And the constraints you propose are not the same thing; for some cases they may work well, for others they may not. E.g. there are apps that force the screen to rotate to landscape, such as some games; when in use the screen remains in landscape even if the device is rotated to portrait, in this case the Device Orientation constraint does not match the screen rotation.

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This is the reason why I asked it here. I'm not good at English neither, so thank you Qarboz for explaining them.
I want macrodroid use screen orientation as constraints.

 

[Endercraft]

I understand better now. Device facing shouldn't consider the screen orientation that apps can set but the way your phone is oriented physically.

 

[Qarboz]

This is the reason why I asked it here. I'm not good at English neither, so thank you Qarboz for explaining them.
I want macrodroid use screen orientation as constraints.

As I wrote you in #4, for now you can create another macro with screen orientation triggers and use a global bool variable as a constraint in other macros/actions

 

[LinerSeven]

So what @Qarboz is trying to say is...





Oh, the content of the rotation is not displayed in English, bug?