Hello and "Looking for making AM Llama Alike"
Posted: 09 Apr 2019 23:31
Hello,
my name is Peter Sulzer and I have until now used Llama. Unfortunately Llama seems to be unusable since Oreo (Android 8.0). So I have to go the hard step to another profile manager (I've used my first profile manager on Symbian - the best mobile operating system ever, Microkernel, Realtime, much better Multitasking than Android, and written in pure and much faster C++ from scratch). I've tried a lot, first of course Tasker (horrible), MacroDroid, PhoneProfiles (or so, don't know the exact name), then I came to Automagic, cause I read a great criticism in a web article.
Well it was the first one, which seems to be intuitive. BUT: It's much more complicated to automate easy things like: If any calendar even t has a title with (profile silent!) in it then switch to Profile Silent and the reverse: If no calendar event has a title with (profile silent!) switch to Profile Normal.
Llama has predefined Profiles (in German): Normal, Laut, Lautlos, Leise (Normal, Loud, Silent, Muted) and you can define your own profiles (e.g. Silent without Vibra). This together with a lot of other goodies made it extremely easy, to define new "tasks", even for DAUs (I'm not a DAU, I'm a Software Engineer).
Of course AM is much more powerful and capable than Llama, but it takes much more time, to automate your Mobile. With Llama it normally took me half an hour to implement my most important macros, with AM it took me a few hours to implement just a Flow which sets my "Normal Profile" (I can just start it manually :- ( ). Well I then made a new flow, starting with a Trigger (something with Tile) with the action (sorry German) "Lautstärke wiederherstellen", but I cannot find a Tile to trigger (start) it - what is this?
Well, what AM should have are the most important profiles (see above), it should have a Tab "Last Areas" (Letzte Gebiete) which shows the last mobile cells, so that one can adjust them to home, work, ...
Well the software developers should have a look at Llama (perhaps on an older phone), how easy it is to automate a mobile, even for non programmers.
Thank you for reading
Peter
my name is Peter Sulzer and I have until now used Llama. Unfortunately Llama seems to be unusable since Oreo (Android 8.0). So I have to go the hard step to another profile manager (I've used my first profile manager on Symbian - the best mobile operating system ever, Microkernel, Realtime, much better Multitasking than Android, and written in pure and much faster C++ from scratch). I've tried a lot, first of course Tasker (horrible), MacroDroid, PhoneProfiles (or so, don't know the exact name), then I came to Automagic, cause I read a great criticism in a web article.
Well it was the first one, which seems to be intuitive. BUT: It's much more complicated to automate easy things like: If any calendar even t has a title with (profile silent!) in it then switch to Profile Silent and the reverse: If no calendar event has a title with (profile silent!) switch to Profile Normal.
Llama has predefined Profiles (in German): Normal, Laut, Lautlos, Leise (Normal, Loud, Silent, Muted) and you can define your own profiles (e.g. Silent without Vibra). This together with a lot of other goodies made it extremely easy, to define new "tasks", even for DAUs (I'm not a DAU, I'm a Software Engineer).
Of course AM is much more powerful and capable than Llama, but it takes much more time, to automate your Mobile. With Llama it normally took me half an hour to implement my most important macros, with AM it took me a few hours to implement just a Flow which sets my "Normal Profile" (I can just start it manually :- ( ). Well I then made a new flow, starting with a Trigger (something with Tile) with the action (sorry German) "Lautstärke wiederherstellen", but I cannot find a Tile to trigger (start) it - what is this?
Well, what AM should have are the most important profiles (see above), it should have a Tab "Last Areas" (Letzte Gebiete) which shows the last mobile cells, so that one can adjust them to home, work, ...
Well the software developers should have a look at Llama (perhaps on an older phone), how easy it is to automate a mobile, even for non programmers.
Thank you for reading
Peter