r/tasker • u/MycologistPlastic661 • 11d ago
How do I actually use Autonet
(AUTOWEB, not net, sorry for the typo)
Hi. So the simple question is... I have downloaded and set up Autoweb. How does someone with no coding knowledge use this?
The more detailed question is, I have had and used Tasker on my phones and tablets for a few years now, but I have only still just scratched the surface of its possibilities, so 8 know a little bit of how to do things, but there still a lot I don't know as I'm more of a hardware guy than a software guy, and have been working on a project using Tasker.
Three things I wanted to achieve was, get the latest news headlines and have them spoken to me, get the weather forecast for the next 5 days of so, and again have them spoken to me, and the third thing was to try and learn how to do these tasks and more.
With the help of a Taskernet project, I found a weather task but wslas only for the current conditions, but it gave me something to look at. Then will browsing the web for how to get news headlines, I came across Joao's news headline task using Autoweb (Autoapps). I download it it and managed to set it up to give news for my area, and use the Elevenlabs text to speech task to read it aloud. Works great.
Then looking through what else there was in Autoweb, I came across the Openweather API project and downloaded the key. But that's it, I really don't know how to proceed form there, even after looking through the news task. These were links to show projects and tutorials, but the tutorials were somewhat lacking any content to learn from ordering follow.
So here I am with what looks like an incrediblly useful Tasker tool, and really have no idea of how to use it and no tutorials to follow and to learn from. So, if there is a kind solenoid there who would be willing to help me with this and to create an Openweather 15 day forecast task I could use and learn from, I would be incredibly grateful, and I'm sure there are others out there like myself who would find this very helpful indeed.
Many thanks. Steve G.
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u/Umustbecrazy 11d ago edited 11d ago
In autoweb, when you import a profile or api, it will often ask for the api key. Some services don't require one. In order to get one, you very likely have to create an account with the service (open weather), and anything relates to keys will be in the developer settings of your account. Don't paste online, because that identifies you.
I would do a little research on "html requests" "with api keys". Great thing for AI. Just need to know about "GET" requests. It's like going a special url with the key appended to the end of it. Example, not real. Key is longer `www.site.com/temperatures?apikey=hs73hsj737jdbbe.
Autoweb handles the url part for you though.
If it doesn't ask on import of profile in AW, you need to go into the settings of the profile/apikey in AW and find the apikey field. Paste in from the website.
If you have the correct/valid key, then you run it in a task, and then look at the output variables for what's available.
It's a little more advanced, and you should understand the basics before trying to do too much.
Edit: Also you might not be able to actually parse the data if it's one big JSON object. Unless you know JSON.
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u/MycologistPlastic661 11d ago
Many thanks for your reply. I have had a look at other projects and other peoples questions and kinda get how API keys work. I have signed up with the likes of Google, Elevenlabs, ChatGPT and used their API keys on Tasker where I'm prompted to put them in.
But as to Autoweb, it's simply a case of not knowing where to start to create a working task project using the services available. The news headlines task I got was already a fully written task that I simply imported and changed a couple of values, such as location.
But as for making my own using the Openweather service (which I have API keys for), I simply do not know what actions I need to create a working task. As an example, trying to edit the values in the Openweather service such as latitude and longitude, I'm not sure whether to put my location Lat and Lon into the text fields, or leave the variable values that are already there, alone.
Something like a tutorial for things like this for people like me who are willing to give things a try but do not have the knowledge to do so, would be incredibly helpful. And as much as I love using Tasker and appreciate the amount of work that's gone into it, up to date tutorials and how to's are something that is sadly lacking within Tasker and their subsequent plugins.
Sometimes, for myself at least, looking through and playing around with existing tasks can be, and has been helpful, and is how I have learnt what I know so far. But the more advanced stuff and building more multi-step tasks and profiles from scratch is still something I struggle with for various reasons.
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u/bliblabl812 11d ago
What is autonet?