Bixby button

[AkiraMenai]

I know I am somehow missing something simple, but I can't fathom how to activate a macro with the Bixby button. It is possible, right?

 

[Pseudocyclic]

I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.bxactions

 

[AkiraMenai]

I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.bxactions

Why do you use that, when you have an automation app? Lol...

 

[Pseudocyclic]

Why do you use that, when you have an automation app? Lol...

I use it to invoke MacroDroid macros. Lol.

 

[AkiraMenai]

I use it to invoke MacroDroid macros. Lol.

If that's the case then I'll recommend my current workaround: Automagic. I don't know if you have heard of it but it's another automation app that's free now (out of development), has a fabulous interface and is more capable than Macrodroid, except for the functions that are failing with the latest Android updates. I intend to ride it until the wheels fall off. You can get it at automagic4android.com

Automagic has a very simple "Launcher trigger" that it installs, that Android can see as another app. You can see that in the Android Bixby button settings, and use that to fire Macrodroid macro shortcuts. Since you are already into automation you should be able to pick it right up, and I'm sure you'll love all the extra capabilities it will give you on any Android device. Much cooler than a dedicated app.

 

[Pseudocyclic]

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Much cooler than a dedicated app.

You don't seem to get it. I have multiple 'Bixby' triggers/macros set up, bxActions intercepts multiple types of Bixby button interaction and acts as an extension to MacroDroid's user input options.

 

[AkiraMenai]

Enlighten me. What don't I get? What can a predefined app do that I can't do myself with ultimate flexibility? Let me know. How do you trigger them? I guarantee you that you can't do anything that I can't do, without using someone else's work or paying them money to get rid of ads.

 

[Pseudocyclic]

Are you still looking for a way to activate a MacroDroid macro with the Bixby button?

 

[AkiraMenai]

Are you still looking for a way to activate a MacroDroid macro with the Bixby button?

What I'm looking for is a way to trigger a specific macro with the Bixby button from inside Macrodroid itself. I can use automagic to trigger them already, but I would like to keep the solution in one box.

 

[Dm114]

You'd probably better keep on using Automagic because if you feel that the fee for MacroDroid (cheaper than 1 BigMac, at least in my country) without any ad, with Dev listening to every suggestion and improving this app very often, you are on the wrong way at the wrong place.

It's really unfair to criticize such an app inside it's own forum, among its members while you are using a simple free version...

 

[AkiraMenai]

You'd probably better keep on using Automagic because if you feel that the fee for MacroDroid (cheaper than 1 BigMac, at least in my country) without any ad, with Dev listening to every suggestion and improving this app very often, you are on the wrong way at the wrong place.

It's really unfair to criticize such an app inside it's own forum, among its members while you are using a simple free version...

I'm not criticizing anything at all. I can see why you might have been mistaken, though. For one thing I bought MacroDroid 8 years ago, before it was even half as capable as it is now. But aside from that, when I mentioned ads I also said "dedicated app," meaning the app he is using to remap the Bixby button.

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