New years new start - Tasker: Monitor control

Happy new years to everyone!

I realise I haven't posted in a while, so part of my new years resolution is to provide weekly content to you, on time and on mondays.

The content will include Tasker and Programming related materials.

Starting off, Tasker!

Now since I'm starting from scratch with Tasker I'll be building my tasks using all the devices I have. which as of writing this are

1. Desktop
2. Samsung Galaxy Note 3
3. Samsung Tab 3
4. Moto 360
5. Plantronic Voyager Legend

The focus will be to create somewhat of an assistant, using voice control and some background tasks.

A prerequisite for this blog is for you to have an understanding of Tasker, Eventghost and maybe some coding experience.

Though if you do not understand anything, please feel free to ask!

So for the first profile today will be a simple one.

Monitor Power Control.

Description:

This task allows you to turn on and off your monitor from your phone, using voice input, by saying "Turn monitor (state)"

Profile:

Event > Plugin > Autovoice > Recognized

Have your command as "turn monitor (?<state>on|off)

Make sure regex is ticked

Now press back to create the task

Task:

Plugins > Autoremote > Message

Configure the plugin to send the message to your Eventghost

and have the message set to "Monitor_%state"

Conclusion:

This will allow you to control your monitor from your phone, possible are turning off your monitor if you will be away for a while and forgot to turn it off to avoid screen burn.

Example: