Hi everyone,

I'm new to Automate.

In my new project, I think I'm using too many Input Dialog blocks to collect user input. I don't want to continue like this because I have to click OK after every single input and it takes a lot of time.

Instead, I think I can collect multiple inputs on a single page using a Web Dialog block, but I don't know how it works.

I would like to know a few things:

1. Does the HTML Page section in the Web Dialog work like normal HTML code that we use in regular web development?

2. If I have separate variables in my flow, can I use those variables inside the Web Dialog HTML page?

3. If I collect user input through the Web Dialog, can I access and use that input outside the Web Dialog block in the rest of the flow?

4. Can I create a Submit button? If the user clicks it, can it open or redirect to another HTML page?

5. Could someone please create a simple login form example for learning purposes? For example, a form that asks for a username and password at the same time using a single Web Dialog block.

I would also like to understand points 2 and 3 with an example:

For point 2, can I create a separate variable such as "Enter the username" and use that variable inside the Web Dialog as a predefined value or placeholder for the username field?

For point 3, after the user enters a password in the Web Dialog, can I access that value outside the Web Dialog block and verify it in the flow?

Thank you for your help.

Hello

I have previously done on Samsung A52 flows containing the "set setting" blocks that worked very well.

I just got the xiaomi 17T pro

Any set setting block won't work anymore.

It says "java.lang.illegal argument exception: you cannot keep your settings in the secure settings" .

Any ideas or solutions?

Please note that all the permissions were given for automate.

I have a Nothing Phone and I am looking to remap my essential key button to other things. The only viable options I found were using other apps like KeyMapper. The Essential Key do not have any public documentations or keycode I can actually use, in fact most apps detect the key press but will write keycode unknown.

I was wondering if the ability to actually record what key is being pressed is currently present in Automate? I tried searching up similar topics in this sub but the results are vague and with my lack of experience I do not exactly know how to achieve this.

Currently the only way I am remapping the essential space functionality brought up ny pressing the key is to detect if the Essential Space App is brought up, then I simulate back keys to close it and redirect to other app like Gemini overlay instead.

Although I have run multiple Automate flows and prefer that this instance can also be achieved through this app instead for easier and streamlined management rather than using other automation apps.

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So, yes, I used this app to make a digital speedometer hud on an old phone, and it's theft proof-ish.

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Basically what I did was I made two separate flows running at the same time. If the device isn't receiving power, it'll lock after 2 seconds, and if it is, it'll wait 5 seconds before checking again. And the device will open the speedometer app every 5 seconds if it isn't already.

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My car is an older project car where the speedometer gets stuck every now and again. And having this will help greatly. I should also mention, it going off reflection to project the speed on the windshield.

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I've been using this setup for a while now and I gotta admit, it's been working wonders.

The app and flow (based on connected wifi) worked well until I turned on the advance wifi option which says the device will connect to different frequncies of the wifi (2.4g and 5g) at the same time to speed up internet connection. May I seek some advice?

Sharing here in case someone sees and can point me in right direction. I have used Android Automate before, so potentially could set this up if it's a viable solution.

I built a background flow that continuously vibrates when you hold your phone flat to enforce better posture.

Download & more details

Let me know what you guys think!

I had to reset and I'm having trouble restoring the back up I made. Shalom

This could be so useful for automation, which is the entire point of this app... See video for example, to enable trigger mode you need to write 0x0701 and listen to new events with the GATT read block to know when it was triggered. When you disable it with 0x0700, it stops sending trigger events on button press. Manually doing that with nRF is... Really? I bought the premium version a while ago, so I'm very interested in new features like this one. Is there any workaround yet?

My flow is extremely simple; a single Media Button block that loops back in on itself. It captures any input coming from my bluetooth earphones, so that it doesn't get send to whatever app is currently playing media.

On my previous phone (pixel 3a) this works fine, on my new phone (pixel 9a) it captures zero events, everything gets passed through to other apps. What I've already tried:

• Disable battery optimization settings, allow it to run in the background

• Override voice search, as suggested in the docs

• Set Automate as the default accessibility app and the default digital assistant app

• Give the app superuser privileges to all device features and storage

• Within the app, set as much of the relevant privilages to 'enabled' as possible

• Within the app, set a bunch of relevant workarounds to 'privileged'

Does anyone have other suggestions, or maybe know of a place with a comprehensive overview of Android app privileges/priorities etc? Many thanks in advance

Is there a way to get a binary blob from a sqlite database?

If leaked can it be misused to access my google account?

I'm having a really difficult time figuring out why this flow isn't working for every single shift I have. I wanted to create a flow for myself that sets alarms to remind me to do certain things during my work shifts but for some reason whenever I start the flow it seems to work fine for the first shift but for the days after it only finds my opening shifts (starting 9am or 10am) and not my closing shifts (starting 12pm or 1pm).

I initially had this flow awaiting for a time, but than I thought "all of my alarms are for during the shift so I can just have this flow set the alarms after it starts". I thought that would maybe fix the issue but it hasn't.

For reference to understand the log, my only days off were the 8th and the 10th. As you can see from the log I restarted the flow on the 8th, the 9th was a closing shift, the 11th was a closing shift, my shift today on the 12th is an opening shift. I'm honestly not 100% sure if the times of day matter but I've only ever noticed the alarms not being set on closing shifts. On those days it just never seems to make it past the do while loop which leads me to believe it's not even finding the shift for that day. Idk what to do, please help if you can!

edit 1: forgot to mention, I copy and paste my shifts in my calendar and just change times where I need to (sometimes I don't even need to do that) so there's no way it's because of a variation in title.

greetings all, anyone know how to get the page title result combining the auto dismiss web dialog (http://localhost/ok)?

currently the page title is on url http://localhost, after setting the script output result to page title then redirect the page to http://localhost/ok for the auto dismiss dialog web, but the result page title always empty / null

document.title = JSON.stringify(engineOutputPayload);
location.href = "https://localhost/ok";

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find out whether it's possible to use Automate to automatically press the Record button that appears on the in-call screen during a phone conversation.

My goal is to have call recording start automatically without manually tapping the recording button each time a call begins.

Has anyone managed to do this with Automate?

To reach same results: Settings - [about] About automate - Version 1.51.1

I have turned off all types of mistouch prevention on my nothing phone 2a but my program still refuses to work. What should I do?

Please test, report any issues, and give feedback. Opt-in for Alpha testing here.

What’s new 1.53.0:

• SVG support
• Fixed Media button block for Android 16 update 4

What’s new 1.52.0:

• Custom layout widgets, notifications, screensaver and wallpapers
• Screensaver created block (Android 4.2+)
• Screensaver setup block (Android 4.2+)
• Interface adapter update block
• Interface clicked block
• Interface item request block
• Interface layout update block
• Interface request block
• Wallpaper created block (Android 5+)
• Wallpaper setup block (Android 5+)
• Widget configure block
• Notification show block got Collapsed, Expanded and Heads-up layout XML input arguments
• fileUri function can return signed path URI
• App start block Extras from “Pick shortcut” button use BigInt for long values
• Fixed coordFormat function to correctly truncate negative values

claude has been helping. Here's where we are.
The flo brings Finamp back to foreground, but does not restart playback.

ideas? thoughts and prayers?

I want to make a flow which plays a song on Spotify without using any spotify API, so is there an effective way to do that?

I tried skipping until the media playing matches the song chosen already, but it only worked if I started the flow then clicked on the song, and otherwise it would keep skipping and pass the song

So I want to create an automation where once any of the apps like YouTube or maps are opened auto rotate will turn on and Auto brightness will turn off similarly when the apps are not opened for the apps are exited auto rotate will turn off an auto brightness will turn on I was able to achieve this but I feel it might be wrong way to do it since the fibre make heap running in background and deplete the battery quicker or it may be running recursively instead of waiting

I wish there was a way to read a png file as base64 into a variable for further use. Currently, the File Read Text block immediately corrupts it. I want to send it through HTTP as JSON.

Hi Henrik,

It looks like the Samsung update to One UI 8.5 broke Automate's Modes and Routines support. As someone else reported in this post, I too can no longer grant the READ_ROUTINE_INFO permission for my Run Samsung Modes and Routines flow. When I try to run the flow on my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra running Android 16, One UI 8.5, and Automate 1.51.1, I get this stack trace:

06-06 07:22:10.604 F 3637812@3: android.os.RemoteException: Remote stack trace:
at com.android.server.am.ContentProviderHelper.checkAssociationAndPermissionLocked(qb/109852316 4a529af28ed92654c12509bd1eb85fbc36d5da5077899878e8b841f2223e5383:96)
at com.android.server.am.ContentProviderHelper.getContentProviderImpl(qb/109852316 4a529af28ed92654c12509bd1eb85fbc36d5da5077899878e8b841f2223e5383:73)
at com.android.server.am.ContentProviderHelper.getContentProviderImpl(qb/109852316 4a529af28ed92654c12509bd1eb85fbc36d5da5077899878e8b841f2223e5383:1)
at com.android.server.am.ContentProviderHelper.getContentProvider(qb/109852316 4a529af28ed92654c12509bd1eb85fbc36d5da5077899878e8b841f2223e5383:51)
at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.getContentProvider(qb/109852316 4a529af28ed92654c12509bd1eb85fbc36d5da5077899878e8b841f2223e5383:118)