{"slug": "tasker", "name": "Tasker", "category": "productivity", "category_name": "Productivity", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.509, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2026-07-30", "latest": "2026-09-24", "why": "Tasker to automatically activate my wifi hotspot for the car's Android headunit", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Tasker to automatically activate my wifi hotspot for the car's Android headunit", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://tasker.joaoapps.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Tasker"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797223302, "item_id": 49826456, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826456", "by": "brokenmachine", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Tasker to automatically activate my wifi hotspot for the car's Android headunit", "excerpt": "I use termux to ssh and RealVNC to connect to a remote vnc session, all over a wireguard VPN. Also Syncthing to automatically sync files between the phone and my home server. I download podcasts and audiobooks into a folder on the server and they're automatically on my phone ready to play. Immich to connect to my self-hosted media. And ntfy to get notifications from my home stuff. Tasker to automatically activate my ", "context": "Android user with home server", "use_case": "phone automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"}, {"id": 790288048, "item_id": 49393003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393003", "by": "patcon", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Tasker is an automation app for setting up rules for triggers and actions.", "excerpt": "I used to play around on projects adjacent to Tor and TailsOS, and had an idea for a setup I was researching. It's a little intense and probably has annoying failure modes, but sharing in case anyone else finds it helpful: - Tasker is an automation app for setting up rules for triggers and actions. It allows extension apps to be created to add new triggers and actions. - someone at one point made an extension to add ", "context": "", "use_case": "auto-wiping phone on signal loss", "switched_from": "", "story": "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"}, {"id": 785870544, "item_id": 49116909, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116909", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Tasker and have scripts out the woohaa on my Linux desktop.", "excerpt": "I disagree. Things that are hidden are not meant to be discovered and utilized by everyday users. When I write software or apps and there is a feature that I want users to utilize I do not gate it behind the rare chance that a user will activate it by shaking their device or rotating it 360 degrees or something else obtuse that nobody ever does. 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Also Syncthing to automatically sync files between the phone and my home server. I download podcasts and audiobooks into a folder on the server and they're automatically on my phone ready to play. Immich to connect to my self-hosted media. And ntfy to get notifications from my home stuff. Tasker to automatically activate my ", "context": "Android user with home server", "use_case": "phone automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"}, {"id": 796488497, "item_id": 49780531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780531", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Tasker watches for new ntfy notifications and then executes actions based on them", "excerpt": "100%! I use ntfy to send commands from within scripts to my android devices. Tasker watches for new ntfy notifications and then executes actions based on them to do things like volume changes, Don't disturb, sending OTP codes, triggering a syncthing resync, etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "Android automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telling a Computer to Do Things"}, {"id": 790288048, "item_id": 49393003, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393003", "by": "patcon", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Tasker is an automation app for setting up rules for triggers and actions.", "excerpt": "I used to play around on projects adjacent to Tor and TailsOS, and had an idea for a setup I was researching. It's a little intense and probably has annoying failure modes, but sharing in case anyone else finds it helpful: - Tasker is an automation app for setting up rules for triggers and actions. It allows extension apps to be created to add new triggers and actions. - someone at one point made an extension to add ", "context": "", "use_case": "auto-wiping phone on signal loss", "switched_from": "", "story": "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"}, {"id": 788808241, "item_id": 49300515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300515", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "on android you can have Tasker react when a ntfy notification arrives", "excerpt": "Love this service! I use it to send commands and URLs between my devices. On Linux you can do `ntfy sub` and on android you can have Tasker react when a ntfy notification arrives based on its title and contents. So on just about all my devices I have a background script running that is subscribed to a \"DeviceCommands\" channel that checks if the Title of new messages contains the device hostname or not. If it does it ", "context": "", "use_case": "react to ntfy notifications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ntfy \u2013 open-source Push to Mobile"}, {"id": 787036577, "item_id": 49189786, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189786", "by": "tester457", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use termux and tasker to get my automations done.", "excerpt": "There's a powerlessness to using Android. It's difficult to just do things. Even windows feels more \"free.\" Phone OSes are built like prisons. Ideally Android would let you drop into a real shell, without having to deal with android sandboxing. Regardless, I use termux and tasker to get my automations done.", "context": "", "use_case": "phone automation", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"}, {"id": 785870544, "item_id": 49116909, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116909", "by": "KetoManx64", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Tasker and have scripts out the woohaa on my Linux desktop.", "excerpt": "I disagree. Things that are hidden are not meant to be discovered and utilized by everyday users. When I write software or apps and there is a feature that I want users to utilize I do not gate it behind the rare chance that a user will activate it by shaking their device or rotating it 360 degrees or something else obtuse that nobody ever does. 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