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@Jwwhite

Tying tasker to a virtual switch is fairly easy. Problem is, tasker doesn’t seem to have any way turn sceen on or off. At least I can’t figure it out.

@Jwwhite

That works to time out. But I have to manually reenable the display. And on this tablet it involves pushing the power button.

@Jwwhite
It’s not the ‘end-all’ on the topic, but here’s a place to start…

How To Send Sensor Triggers to Android and Have Android React

[Note: my immediate application for using this concept is with getting external motion sensors to wake an Android’s screen, but I will eventually want to do this with other sensors and different reactions as well] I have seen this discussed in a lot of threads, and there are different pieces and parts of the concept all over the place. I wanted to see it specifically discussed in one place. Generally speaking… Z-Wave/Zigbee connected motion sensor detects motion SmartThings gets notified SmartThings sends notification to Android device as usual Some app on Android device parses SmartThings notifications App on Android sends command to wake Android device screen or other task on the Android device Not Using Android Camera This would waste energy. That’s why I want it to use an externa…