I had disabled all my macros that used location and it still persisted. Turning off location permission and rebooting was the only thing that worked.
I suspect MD had caused (started) some sort of loop in android.
Mine has done this recently. I found MD was using large amounts of Location time.
The only fix for me was to turn off MD Location permission in Apps>Permissions then rebooting the phone and re enabling MD Location permission.
I powered the phone off then back on, not just a restart.
I tried...
Mine has done this recently. I found MD was using large amounts of Location time.
The only fix for me was to turn off MD Location permission in Apps>Permission then rebooting the phone and re enabling MD Location permission.
I tried all other suggestions and none worked.
No, "run macro on MacroDroid" still isn't working and there has been several google updates. I gave up on Assistant because google keeps tinkering (breaking!) it so I now use the Voice Input action in MD to recognise my commands. This uses google voice input but seems to be much more reliable...
You can create a Routine in Google Assistant that recognizes a spoken or typed phrase and then executes a command such as "run XYZ in macrodroid". Up until recently this has worked well for me but suddenly the "run macroname in macrodroid" no longer runs the macro. Not sure what has happened.
Thanks for the tips. Since I close the Assistant app after using it for only a short time I got around it by setting up a 1 second While/Do loop with a condition to check if the app is running in the foreground. This works ok for what I need. At least the actions can detect the Assistant app...
Android 8 on Galaxy S8. Macrodroid 5.21.3
I got sick of Google Assistant not making the chime sound when it has the microphone active at launch so I wrote a macro to make the sound when it starts. I keep Google closed until I need it and use the Long Press Home to activate it when I'm in the...