Using the 'trigger fired' condition

[OptimizedMOD]

I am trying to set up a macro for wifi/ Hotspot when i come and go from home... been using "it trigger fired" and I feel like my macro doesn't work when too many are in actions... Or maybe some conditions are just not compatible? Or maybe I'm using them wrong. If anyone has any suggestions or insight it'd be greatly appreciated.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

I think you should start simpler and just one type of trigger such as SSID In range/out of range.

 

[dhj49er]

What exactly are you trying to do?

Eg Arrive home, connect to SSID. Leave home & when disconnected from SSID enable mobile data.... then do you want to switch on hotspot?

It looks like many of the triggers fire when you are arriving at home, especially if the quoted SSID is your home WiFi. That could produce interesting results if they all trigger on entering or leaving home.

What are you trying to achieve or avoid using Geofence and Cell Towers together to determine you are at home?

Cell towers produce a much bigger area than geofence and do you need to use both?

 

[itneveroccurred]

I'm surprised no one has gave a valid answer yet, instead of doing separate if statements for each trigger, do one if statement for all the triggers of when you arrive and an else if for all the ones where you leave, and set them to OR. To avoid multiple triggers, I guess for the constraint at the bottom just do "not invoked" for 1 minute on that macro, that's off the top of my head, then you can just move your actions within that wherever they go.

 

[dhj49er]

No reason given for using cell towers, geofence and WiFi to determine coming & going from home.

If it was me, I would ditch the cell towers and geofence triggers and just use WiFi, as that is only available when at home.

Combining the if statements doesn't overcome the overlapping nature of the 3 different triggers.

On approaching home the cell tower trigger will fire first...in my experience 100s meters from home.

On leaving home WiFi disconnecting will fire before the other 2.

 

[itneveroccurred]

No reason given for using cell towers, geofence and WiFi to determine coming & going from home.

If it was me, I would ditch the cell towers and geofence triggers and just use WiFi, as that is only available when at home.

Combining the if statements doesn't overcome the overlapping nature of the 3 different triggers.

On approaching home the cell tower trigger will fire first...in my experience 100s meters from home.

On leaving home WiFi disconnecting will fire before the other 2.

And what if the WiFi is out? I've actually been meaning to use multiple failsafes like this since sometimes the wifi is offline at home or at work since I track my time in my own macro. You can simply just use a boolean to prevent other the other 2 triggers from going off when leaving and arriving to places. This seems like a pretty good way to make a robust system in my eyes even if it's overkill, only problem I see is passing by certain locations which you can then just wait for the wifi trigger, but I guess it all just depends on the person.

 

[dhj49er]

So you use Cell Towers to determine you are at a place?

 

[itneveroccurred]

So you use Cell Towers to determine you are at a place?

Oh actually you're right I guess cell tower trigger isn't needed unless you're traveling to really far locations.

 

[OptimizedMOD]

Hey sorry I jumped ship...I am I need looking to create a wifi turns on, hot spot, mobile and location turns off when arriving home.... invert all the above when leaving home, all the while maintaining a stable connection for my main phone, as well as my wifi phone... tricky though with the half of the triggers turned off.