"Quick Settings" Toggle Tiles by Tasker on Android

[UhtredtheBold (Stephen Burden)]

it amazes me that the hue android app doesn’t allow you to create a simple toggle, aka light switch, widget. I solved this by creating a tasker quick setting but your solution is better because it shows the current state of the light. Works well. Thank you

[Klagio]

This is very very cool, I finally managed to have it working.

Is it possible to have more than one Tasker quick settings? I managed to have one but not able to add more

[Klagio]

Did you try switch or light?
To me it worked with switch and light, but not with input_boolean (haven’t spent to much time though)

[dannyqwertz]

@bachoo786

Right so my error is the following:

10.48.40/E add wait type JSI1 time 45
10.48.40/E add wait type JSI1 done
10.48.40/ActionSpecs non-proxy
10.48.40/E add wait task
10.48.40/E Error: null

Same here, did you get it to correctly execute somehow by now?

Additional error I get from Tasker:

Failed to execute ‘send’ on ‘XHTTPRequest’: The objects state must be OPENED.

I think there may be some problem with the POST? (but double checked everything)

I’m also using https.

[nayd]

I can’t get this to work. Could it be that API username is not defined?

[schumi2004]

I tried to implement this but I think it’s causing issues because of the new AUTH system used by HA?
Any quick fix or should we rebuild function using this Tutorial: Using the new Auth system with tasker

[fanuch]

I haven’t yet used the new auth system, but remove the ?api_key=xxxxxxxxxx from the end of the address from the previous instructions.

Replace:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open = ( "POST", url+address, false );
xhttp.send(body);
var result = JSON.parse(xhttp.responseText)[0].state;

With:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
token= 'Bearer ' + global('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
xhttp.open = ( "POST", url+address, false );
xhttp.setRequestHeader('Authorization', token);
xhttp.send(body);
var result = JSON.parse(xhttp.responseText)[0].state;

(note the API key is now inside the token parameter as per the linked tutorial)

[schumi2004]

@fanuch
Thanks, it’s working partially now.
The light switches but the %results value is empty therefore I thought it didn’t worked at first.
Gonna do some reading how to have that fixed.

/Edit
I think I’ll do a GET straight after the POST to get the actual state.

[fanuch]

Excellent @schumi2004!

As per the guide, see if you get a result on this place at the end of your request:
flash(xhttp.responseText);

It’s possible the response is under a different label/array.

[dent]

Hi!

do I need to have a raspberry pi to use this?

I’m trying to get a quick setting tile to toggle my lights on/off but I only have my phone, tasker, some autoapps and the smart light switches and nothing else.

Is it possible?

Thanks

[fanuch]

@dent

do I need to have a raspberry pi to use this?

No, where did you get that idea?

You need an Android phone with Tasker, and be running Home Assistant with API access.

@dent

Is it possible?

What you’ve described is the entire point of this guide

[dent]

I wasn’t sure if everything on this site was based off of a raspberry.

How do I run Home Assistant on my phone and get API access? Is it the HA app in the play store?

I’m a mega noob at this stuff and understand very little

Thanks

[fanuch]

Based on your response I would highly encourage you to read through the documentation.

One of the best things about Home Assistant is the very well written manual and examples.

Here is the API guide

[jockebq]

I am trying to make it work with the new auth system using a token. I used the replacement that @fanuch wrote above. But it still doesn’t work. Did you make any other changes? I can’t even get it to send a command to HA, much less get the state. Are you able to export your working setup?

[schumi2004]

No unfortunately I did not made any progress, still stuck on the current status part.
I did managed to flip the switch.
Reinstalled my phone today and will start over tomorrow. Will share my project once I got it working.

/Edit
I see that another guide is updated recently, maybe this will help you? I will use that tomorrow.

Using Tasker with Home Assistant (V2)

Hi everyone ! A year ago, I posted a tutorial showing how to use Tasker with Home Assistant. After more that 10 thousands views, I’ve decided to update the tutorial so it’s easier to follow, with better screenshots and better ways to identify problems It also uses new features of Tasker, such as HTTP headers. Let’s get started ! 1. Create a token First of all, go the the “Long-Lived Access Tokens” section at the bottom of the Profile page of your Home Assistant. This page can be ac…

[schumi2004]

@jockebq
Got it working.
Follow the first 3 steps from here: ⚙️ Using Tasker with Home Assistant (V2)
And then import this task and change icon for it: Test_Floorlight.tsk.xml https://pastebin.com/U79JT09s
Add tile and it should work.

[jockebq]

Thanks @schumi2004 I followed the guide the first 3 steps. And I downloaded your Test_Floorlight.tsk.xml and imported it to Tasker task section. But there seems to be something wrong with it, because when I click the task I cannot edit it, it asks me to select another task?

[schumi2004]

That is strange.
Maybe this works better using images?
Note: Floorlight has changed to Woonkamer or Kamer in my situation.

Task overview:
First 2 steps are from other topic, 3 - 8 from fanuch
Change task icon at bottom, mine has a lightbulb now.

Step 1

Step 2

Tasker Quick Settings Task

[nelbs]

Is there a way to set two quick settings task that act like toggles? When i try this the second toggles interacts strangely enough with the first one.

[jockebq]

Thank you so much! It is almost working for me. I can toggle a device on and off but the state is not returned. It will flash off both when it is turned on or off. And the switch won’t change from active to not active either. This is how I get the state {{ states(“switch.livingroom_tv”) }}
And I followed your guide for everything!