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[Q] WatchOn - Activities

I set up the WatchOn app to control my devices. I can control them individually just fine. However, what I'd like is to hit a button for an activity, say watching a movie, and it automatically turns on the TV, sets its input to DVD, turns on my receiver, sets its input to DVD, and turns on the Blu Ray player.
Is this something this app does? If so, where do you access this? If not, why does it ask you for all the inputs on your TV and receiver?

DLarva said:
I set up the WatchOn app to control my devices. I can control them individually just fine. However, what I'd like is to hit a button for an activity, say watching a movie, and it automatically turns on the TV, sets its input to DVD, turns on my receiver, sets its input to DVD, and turns on the Blu Ray player.
Is this something this app does? If so, where do you access this? If not, why does it ask you for all the inputs on your TV and receiver?
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Do you actually have a remote control that does all that with the press of one button? Cause I never seen one. I don't think that's possible with the phones WatchOn.

Reinaldo33897 said:
Do you actually have a remote control that does all that with the press of one button? Cause I never seen one. I don't think that's possible with the phones WatchOn.
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Yes, I do. It is a logitech harmony.
The reason why I thought it might is because WatchOn has you set the input types on your TV and receiver. If you have to turn each component on manually, then it has no idea what input you want the TV on, so you have to set that manually as well, so why ask for the input.
If it can't do this, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch of the imagination to add a "Watch TV" button which just runs through a step of button presses for you.

I dont know I think watchon is a joke. Samsungs way of saying hey I can turn your components on and off lol. But see if you can hit play on the blueray and it should put tv in blueray input. But then I think yoy manually have to get it back to tv mode.
I think its a nice app if you want to search for tv shows but really worthless to operate the whole system.
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Well 1 somewhat long way to do it is using the "Tasker" app. It can emulate virtual screen taps and bunch of other stuff.
Create a task from tasks tab.
Add Action -> App -> Load App -> WatchOn
Add Action -> Task -> Wait and set it to wait a few seconds for the app to load.
Add Action -> Script -> Run Shell and for command enter in "sleep 0.1; input tap 564 1856" where numbers are X,Y of your screen you want tapped.
- sleep X seconds is same as adding wait action. so you can change to whatever duration you want
- To determine X,Y values go in Settings->More ->Developer Options -> check Show Pointer Location.
- If its not there, to unlock the Dev Options menu, go to Settings -> About Device and scroll down to the "Build Number." Tap on your "Build Number" 7 times.
Keep adding actions for tapping all the WatchOn buttons you need (switch to remote view, load the correct room/tv etc).
Then just throw a tasker widget on ur screen and you have ur 1 button that auto does everything you want; after like 10 secs of running lol, sadly not instant.
PM me if you want to try this and need help

WiFi trouble!

Hey everyone, so I'm in stock jwr66v and my WiFi is off in settings. But it is still using battery power as well as GPS shown in the screenshot. Would this be kernel related or ROM?
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copied from pcmag site because I don't know the correct translations from dutch menu -> english menu:
Fire up the Settings app and tap your finger on the Wireless and Networks option. Tap on the Wi-Fi option, and then tap on the Overflow button on your phone's screen (the triple-dots icon). When this submenu pops up, tap your finger on the Advanced option. From there, you'll want to make sure to check the "Scanning always available" option if you want to participate in the new Android 4.3 feature. Otherwise, if it's checked, you need merely to uncheck it to ensure that "Wi-Fi off" really means "Wi-Fi off."

I did that, but thanks for trying to help!
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Wireless display/Miracast on Lollipop

Hi is there anyway to enable wireless display on the Note 7 with lollipop?
I found an app to open the cat menu but it only displays Chromecast devices I am not able to find the option to enable wireless display which is available on other phones/tabs with the cast menu.
Thanks
Varun

disabling some audio source

Everytime when i press the source button.. The audio source goes in this order Navi -> Radio -> Music -> Video -> iPod -> TV -> AUX and back to Navi.. Is there a way to disable some of them... i want to disable those that i dont use to keep it short.
Thanks
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Got Verizon and want WiFi Preferred for WiFi calling? I found the way (no root requir

Looking through "settings list global", I noticed something that could be pertaining to WifiCalling.
wfc_ims_mode=1
I changed it with Tasker and AutoTools to 2 and then enabled and disabled airplane mode and it stuck!
---- NOTE ----
If you have never activated AutoTools Secure Settings, read this:
https://joaoapps.com/AutoApps/Help/...utotools.activity.ActivityConfigsettings.html
You might as well just skip to the adb section on this post (below) instead.
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A1: AutoTools Secure Settings [ Configuration:Setting Type: Global
Name: wfc_ims_mode
Input Type: Int
Value: 2
Read Setting: true Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
For those who don't know Tasker and AutoTools... Create a new task. Choose Plugins, then AutoTools, then secure settings.
Choose custom settings
Choose Setting type
Choose global
Ok
Choose Name
Fill in wfc_ims_mode
Ok
Choose input type
Int
Choose value
Fill in the number 2
Ok
Press the back button then the check mark on the top and the back button one more time
Press the play icon on the bottom left and wait for the small green circle on the left in the AutoTools line
Go to settings click more in the wireless area and see that it is now WiFi Preferred.
----- ADB INSTRUCTIONS -----
Enable ADB Debugging Mode in Developer options
Plug your phone in.
On your desktop, go to the command prompt and change directory into where you keep ADB.exe
If you have never connected your phone to adb, you'll have to allow it. Type adb shell and you'll notice a pop-up on your phone screen that asks for permission. Click yes and try the adb shell command again.
Then type this
settings put global wfc_ims_mode 2
Press enter.
For pros:
adb shell settings put global wfc_ims_mode 2
Look at your wireless settings (more menu) and you'll see that WiFi Preferred is active
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Don't forget to reboot and, it should be set to go. It persisted through a reboot, it will be interesting to see what else it persists through.
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I use this on my og xl from verizon. It's great, and allows you to make wifi calls with the cell radios off in airplane mode and wifi only turned on.
?Tapped from my pure pixelXl?

Ya, I copied the post from the other forum because it works well on the Pixel 2 as well.
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sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does this do? My pixel comes in tomorrow and I am on VZW. Im unclear what is missing / what this enabled you to do.

If you live in a ****ty cell area, this helps the phone choose WiFi Preferred instead of Mobile Preferred.
The handover to WiFi calling isn't that great and Verizon blocked the stupid menu selection to get WiFi Preferred.
This fixes that.
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This works great, i have spotty cell service at home but the first few seconds of the call are always messed up as it switches to wifi and the other end cant hear me and I cant hear them.

Noobish question: are these secure settings the same as the build.prop file? (i.e. can this be used to edit other things persistently in build.prop)
Thanks.

pfriedman said:
Noobish question: are these secure settings the same as the build.prop file? (i.e. can this be used to edit other things persistently in build.prop)
Thanks.
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No.
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On my og pixel xl this change persisted through all monthly security updates, but not Android updates (Nougat to Oreo)