Sturmeh
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
Preliminary support for plug-in conditions is now supported in Locale 1.0. Documentation of these APIs is available at http://www.twofortyfouram.com/developer.html
Locale 1.0 is available on the Android Market today in countries that support paid apps. Full release notes are here: http://www.twofortyfouram.com/notes.html
Sturmeh
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21 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
This is basically implemented in Locale 1.0. Locale 1.0 intelligently schedules situation updates. If a situation contains both a location and time condition, then Locale won’t schedule a wakeup until the time condition is met. Once the time condition is met, then location will be checked periodically.
You might still see Location is being checked rarely even while the Time condition isn’t met, as Locale may do a full refresh every once in a while. (For example, when launching the Locale UI, and sometimes when waking the screen, or during the transition between other situations.)
Sturmeh
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Sturmeh
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This would also be solved by implementing this… http://feedback.twofortyfouram.com/pages/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/322078-sub-situations?ref=title
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66 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
As Chris said, this can be accomplished using the “Locale Power Power Source Plugin.” Simply add a Battery condition to detect the battery level, and a Power Source condition to detect being unplugged. Please note that this plug-in requires Android 2.0 or later.
Sturmeh
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Cant they are completely unrelated.
Sturmeh
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79 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
This is now supported with the combination of Locale 1.0 and the “Locale Headphones Plug-in”, both of which are available on the Android Market in countries that support paid apps.
Locale 1.0 supports plug-in conditions, so many more exciting features are coming soon :)
A plug-in to control media volume will be released in the near future :).
Sturmeh
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This would only really be useful if you could change the Media volume with Locale. So add that too?
Sturmeh
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21 votesdeclined ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
As I understand it, the only reason for this request is really for reusing a condition or setting across multiple situations. Given that most conditions or settings are very easy to set up individually, the value gained by re-use seems low unless the number of situations is on the order of 10 or more.
We experimented with reusable Locations in older versions of Locale, and found the UI to be exceedingly complex and the benefits of reuse didn’t offset the UI complexity required.
Sturmeh
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Yes but I think the problem here is to use locale for two separate purposes such as power and location, you need to make one power for each location, unless of course the settings being changed were independent of the location.
But lets just say I want a generally low brightness in my House, and a generally bright screen when i’m not at my House, but I want it to scale downward with the battery level.
I have X many power levels being tracked to change the brightness level, and currently 2 locations, there I have 2*X situations. What if I wanted to track Y many places, that would be X*Y situations.
I’m just looking for a clean solution to the mess you get when you try to use Locale to it’s full potential.
Sturmeh
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Sturmeh
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Basically it’s sub categories for situations, so you can have separate situations for Home and Work, etc.
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141 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
The Locale Media Volume Plug-in is available for free on the Android Market here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.twofortyfouram.locale.setting.media_volume
For those who are looking for Voice or Alarm volume settings, I’ve created two new requests. Please cast your votes there.
Voice Volume Setting http://locale.uservoice.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/450512-voice-volume-setting
Alarm Volume Setting http://locale.uservoice.com/forums/5655-locale-feedback/suggestions/450514-alarm-volume-setting
Sturmeh
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You will find this is more annoying than not when you are playing music and you enter a condition that cuts the media volume…
Sturmeh
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99 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
A 3rd party developer has created a plug-in called “Locale Lockscreen Plug-in” that implements this feature request.
This plug-in can be found by choosing the “Get Plug-ins” menu item within Locale.
Sturmeh
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Alright thank you for clearing that up. ( I would hardly call this filled even if I was allowed to buy that 3rd party app. )
Sturmeh
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You say there is a 3rd Party app etc. but it does not appear in my Market (AU) is the App free?
This is also the case with some other plug-ins listed as complete, but do not appear in my Market… :\ (Airplane mode.)Sturmeh
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125 votescompleted ·AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.) responded
This has been implemented by a third party developer. The Locale Inbound SMS Plug-in is available as a paid app on the Android Market!
Sturmeh
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Whilst this is beyond the scope of locale, it would be pretty neat.
Sturmeh
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Carter what I think he’s saying is the code needs a way of understanding priorties, it’s almost impossible for you to have to guess some of them, for example the program doesn’t necessarily know you can’t be at work on a Sunday.
If I want to save some work I’ll make a pre-condition that it’s a weekday, then I’m at work.
Possibly make it optional to make ordering strict or loose.