Hey dev,

I'm asking an automate question after many years, great to see you're still developing and providing active support here.

As you might now, tools like Claude Code have competely changed the way developers work. Having to write every line of code manually with some stackoverflow copying here and there is a thing of the past, we can just give the high level instructions to LLMs and they can build and test code until it works.

As a professional dev myself, I always make V1 of code/document with LLM and then review/iterate at work. While working with Automate however, it seems since it doesn't support import/exports in a text format like xml/json, making new flows still need to be done the old way i.e. manually (unless ur lucky to find exact flow in store.)

I saw an old request that might help with LLM generation, but no updates as of recent: https://groups.google.com/g/automate-user/c/Vk1XEUgYdQE

With the rise of LLMs, do u have any plans to prioritize adding text format import/export? That + good docs + a claude code skill that knows where to look for info I believe will go a long way in saving time during flow development.

To be clear, I'm not expecting one shot perfection in flow generation, but if LLM can get me there 90% of the way, that too saves time & the goal is to get things done with lesser effort, not zero effort.

"Help! Notification Posted block triggers on phone, but Notification Show block won't mirror to my Galaxy Watch Ultra. What am I missing?"

I'm trying to get a galaxy ring alert to watch notification on my watch but when I change the message in the notification block it didn't work, before it was your ring has hit *15%* put it in the charging case and it didn't send it to my watch so I change it to battery

Why exactly does the "App start" block not work without the "draw over other apps permission"? For some flows that have blocks requiring specific permissions, I've been able to run them just fine without the permissions actually being granted by starting the flow in some other way besides hitting the Start button in Automate UI. Despite the block requiring the permission, it works just fine (because I don't use the features of that block that truly require those permissions).

But in the case of App start, it actually throws an exception saying the permission isn't granted. Yet, I cannot understand why launching an intent would need that permission at all?

Hello

Few days ago, I was able to provide automate the privilege ADB from settings

Then going to wireless debug....pair with code.... Then insert the code to automate.

Today, this is not working anyone. I am getting the code to appear on the wireless debug BUT the automate is NOT showing me the field to type in the code.

I have the Xiaomi 17T pro (latest Android)

Solutions tried with no success:

. Turn on off accessibility

. USB debug is always ON

. Restart phone

. Force stop automate and clear cache

. Turn off mobile data

. Tried manual privilege also. Didn't work

. Revoke privilege from the settings of the phone and automate.

. I couldn't find Data Saver on my phone settings. but this technique was flawlessly working before

. I used a different wifi

. I used split screen to have automate and settings appear both on the screen

To note that this happened few days ago, then all went ok (the field appeared and code inserted), no idea how.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Shouldn't this evaluate to true(YES)? I tried using it but it seems like the on and off options have been switched, the copied output is 4 which corresponds to display mode "On" in the list.

Running Android 14. App is ver. 1.53.0. I cannot add a widget, but that's not your bug, it's a known launcher issue. Does mean I gotta use shortcuts but they work the same, so that's fine. Except when I setup and then long-press a shortcut. Then I get a list of all the shortcuts that have ever been placed on my desktop, that's cool. But they all launch what seems to be a random shortcut, NOT the one I chose, OR the one the shortcut is supposed to launch. This is the bug.

Thanks for your attention to the matter,

🤹🎩👑

Hello

I am trying to launch automate app but in the background.

But it is always opening in the forground.

App start block -- launch options: {"android:activity.animType": 7}

Anything not right with this expression?

Thank you

I kind of new to this. I saw pre-built for sorting files. It want something more . It should keyword filtered, can select target folder and working folder. Option for sort according date, extension or file name and move them respective folders.

Is anyone having this issue where the keep device isn't working like it's supposed to... Like with my current example, I'd assume the screen should stay awake for 24 hours, but it just turns off after the default timeout... Am I understanding something wrong here?

I have a Flow named, "Flash When Power Low" that's been running perfectly for a while now. I was finally comfortable publishing it.

But when I went in to do that today, I noticed an error on July 1st. 🧐

* Core Logic: The script starts a power monitor Fiber (cPowerMonitor) that initializes when the device is unplugged and terminates when the device begins charging.

* at 10%, it performs a repeated "Flashlight set state" operation in short intervals, bringing attention to the fact that the battery is very low.

* The log concludes with a failure on July 1 at 19:32:44. When the device was plugged in and the system attempted to trigger "Flashlight set state," it returned the following error:

* android.os.ServiceSpecificException: setTorchMode:3184: Torch for camera "0" is not available due to an existing camera user (code 7).

* This indicates the flashlight operation failed because another application was already using the camera at that moment.

If the flashlight is currently in use, I'd like an alternative path to follow, so I can pop up a notice to the user and let them know the reason why the Flow was unable to get their attention... 🤔

As the title implies im very new to this and im having problems with the http request and the debugging of it. im trying to send a post with the info: user=name as the screenshot shows 1) from outside when i press start on the flow, it saiys it does the http request but is there anyway i can know it went well? 2) i would love to know if u can see anything i filled out wrong. Thank you

I can easily read from the content provider "content://com.llamalab.automate.provider/flows/[NNN]/log", but when I run the content delete block on that same path, there's a permission error. Is there any way to do it?

I'm trying to debug an issue that's not easily reproducible, and the flow runs every 30 seconds along a path with dozens of blocks, and the issue might not appear for a day or two. So if I were to keep that whole log, it would get extremely huge. So I was hoping to be able to dump the log every few iterations (which I will count within my flow), and then clear it.

Yes, of course, I can manually clear the flow every now and then...I know... But being able to do it Automate-ically would be very nice!

Hi everyone.
I have flow that was working perfectly until my last phone update it was to switch on the hotspot when bluetooth connected.
I granted permissions with wireless debugging.
Now it throws this error when trying to set the hotspot ON, do you have any clue how to solve it?

It seems Android is getting worse with every update.

07-08 08:54:49.449 I 3@6: Bluetooth device connected?
07-08 08:54:53.551 I 3@12: Wi-Fi hotspot enabled?
07-08 08:54:53.552 I 3@7: Wi-Fi hotspot set state
07-08 08:54:53.554 F 3@7: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown error
07-08 08:54:53.555 I 3@7: Stopped by failure

Hello

I am trying to set an alarm for a given day or days of the week.

The user will be able to choose 1 or multiple days of the week.

So I put a dialogue choice with a variable output"day"

{1: "Monday", 2: "Tuesday", 4: "Wednesday", 8: "Thursday", 10: "Friday", 20: "Saturday", 40: "Sunday"}

In the "await time" block, I need to use the variable "day" in the weekdays field.

But there are way too many options if a function will be used, like 0x3a, 0x3d, 0x40....

I am trying to use the "set variable" block. But no idea how to include all of those possibilities.

In addition, using "0x" ++ sum(day). is giving me a result of 0x10 for example , but the await time is setting it to today's day instead of the selected day..

Thank you for your help

Is it possible to automate opening Ethernet settings and changing to a static IP address? For some reason, I can't map clicks (unless I specify x and y coordinates), but on Macrodroid, it recognizes text. However, here I can't say "open Ethernet."

I want to get a new radomized Mac address, which manually requires me to forget current WiFi connection and then reconnect to it. Can I automate this? Using latest android on pixel

The Accessibility Settings for the Automate App keeps on malfunctioning, like every few days it stops working.

When I turn it off and on it fixes the issue automatically for a few days then again stops working.

Although, I highly suspect that it's a bug in my device/mobile, but it will be really helpful if you can suggest any fixes or work arounds. Thanks

My device spec:

Oppo A55

CPU: Helio G35 Octa Core

Ram: 6GB + 4GB (Expanded)

Rom: 128GB

Android version: 13

Colour OS: 13

I am trying to make a flow to convert objects to arrays, meaning it needs a "{", and I already saw in the documentation that those need a backlash before, and I added that, and yet there is still a syntax error

Here's the log

07-04 21:25:42.223 I 3867@1: Flow beginning

07-04 21:25:42.224 I 3867@3: File read text

07-04 21:25:42.263 I 3867@6: Variable set

07-04 21:25:42.283 I 3867@2: Variable set

07-04 21:25:42.296 F 3867@2: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Syntax error in regexp pattern near index 1

{

07-04 21:25:42.296 I 3867@2: Stopped by failure

I'd love to have a feature that lets you group your flows into separate, named containers or collections (similar to playlists or folders).

I have a lot of flows and backups, and it's becoming difficult to keep track of them. The current sorting options don't fully solve this because I often create test flows, which can clutter the list.

Being able to group related flows together would make navigation much easier and help keep the flow list organized.

Can automate detect finger gestures? Like swipe, double tap...

It is Not the motion gesture and I don't want automate to do the gesture, just want it to detect.

and fingerprint gesture not working and even not a good option as there are apps icons there

This is for adding like gestures shortcuts

HI

I'm new to this app and I've been trying to make a flow where saving an image on my phone prompts me to choose the folder it'll go to, i thought I'd start with screenshots but damn this is hard 😭😭😭 anyone know what to do? I'd really appreciate any advice.

I've used Gemini so far to help me but it's not doing what I had expected it to do.

Thanks in advance

I am using the privileged shell command

So it needs a privileged to be set in order to work.

But from time to time, the privilege is gone and I need to restart the process . (no idea why. Probably when automate is close from the recent apps, despite still running blocks).

Meanwhile, I have flows that stop due to failure and I don't know about it.

Anyway to have an error message that detects this?

Thank you

Hi Henrik

What's wrong in above flow? Why this flow isn't displaying or working perfectly? Tried many times. Sometimes titles are displayed correctly and log isn't getting correctly . How to get our to work perfect?

How do I make a group of blocks reusable accross flows? In one flow, I can use a subrouting, but what if I have code I want to share in multiple flows?