inexperienced eighty year old looking for help

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Germano

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Hi, sorry if I keep asking for help, as I repeat, I'm inexperienced and eighty years old and I don't understand programming, I have the pro version of macrodroid and I would like to create some macros and I don't know the commands so I'm turning to you hoping to find a person who give me help, this is what I ask:
1 what is the force new command for
2 if I launch an application what is the command to close it?
3 I would like to create a macro that, when I am in a certain place, silences my cell phone and reactivates the ringtone when I move away
Sorry if I'm asking too much and thanks if you help me
 
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hsurB

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Germano said:
Hi, sorry if I keep asking for help, as I repeat, I'm inexperienced and eighty years old and I don't understand programming, I have the pro version of macrodroid and I would like to create some macros and I don't know the commands so I'm turning to you hoping to find a person who give me help, this is what I ask:
1 what is the force new command for
2 if I launch an application what is the command to close it?
3 I would like to create a macro that, when I am in a certain place, silences my cell phone and reactivates the ringtone when I move away
Sorry if I'm asking too much and thanks if you help me
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1. Lets say you have your browser opened with website loaded, if you run launch application action (your browser) with 'force new' it would REOPEN the browser, it would have to load the app again first, then load the website etc.
Notice that you don't have to toggle any of two options when configuring this action

2. There is an action called Kill application, but unfortunately it requires your phone to be rooted, its quite complicated process to gain all permissions and access in android system. You probably won't be able to close app but you could use 'launch home screen' action to exit the app(phone will close it after some time while its in background anyway) or use ui interactions to make macrodroid perform set of gestures and clicks to close the app (the same way you would do it with your fingers)

3. I created the draft of a macro like that for you and attached to my post. If you import it to your device (you should click the zones.macro file at the bottom and select macrodroid as app that should open it), make sure to reconfigure triggers to create your zone(the place in which it should mute the phone). There is one action thats disabled - you need to use one of them based on what exactly you want to achieve.
If you want your phone to go into silent mode with vibrations off (you need to enable grey action and delete the other one, I am speaking about two actions on top that are moved slightly to the right, the one at bottom should stay as it is).
If you want your phone to go into vibration mode you can leave the macro as it is.

Feel free to ask, if you need any guidance - either me or other users will gladly help! :)
 

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ARME

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Germano said:
Hi, sorry if I keep asking for help, as I repeat, I'm inexperienced and eighty years old and I don't understand programming, I have the pro version of macrodroid and I would like to create some macros and I don't know the commands so I'm turning to you hoping to find a person who give me help, this is what I ask:
1 what is the force new command for
2 if I launch an application what is the command to close it?
3 I would like to create a macro that, when I am in a certain place, silences my cell phone and reactivates the ringtone when I move away
Sorry if I'm asking too much and thanks if you help me
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Open with macrodroid this file and save it. Go to your macro and search "blocco azioni" and select the one called "close app (2-3 seconds)"
 

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Germano

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hsurB said:
1. Lets say you have your browser opened with website loaded, if you run launch application action (your browser) with 'force new' it would REOPEN the browser, it would have to load the app again first, then load the website etc.
Notice that you don't have to toggle any of two options when configuring this action

2. There is an action called Kill application, but unfortunately it requires your phone to be rooted, its quite complicated process to gain all permissions and access in android system. You probably won't be able to close app but you could use 'launch home screen' action to exit the app(phone will close it after some time while its in background anyway) or use ui interactions to make macrodroid perform set of gestures and clicks to close the app (the same way you would do it with your fingers)

3. I created the draft of a macro like that for you and attached to my post. If you import it to your device (you should click the zones.macro file at the bottom and select macrodroid as app that should open it), make sure to reconfigure triggers to create your zone(the place in which it should mute the phone). There is one action thats disabled - you need to use one of them based on what exactly you want to achieve.
If you want your phone to go into silent mode with vibrations off (you need to enable grey action and delete the other one, I am speaking about two actions on top that are moved slightly to the right, the one at bottom should stay as it is).
If you want your phone to go into vibration mode you can leave the macro as it is.

Feel free to ask, if you need any guidance - either me or other users will gladly help! :)
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Thank you for your help, I tried your "zones" macro by configuring the location with geofence, but the ringtone didn't go into vibration mode, possible cause
 
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Germano

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ARME said:
Open with macrodroid this file and save it. Go to your macro and search "blocco azioni" and select the one called "close app (2-3 seconds)"
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first of all I thank you for your availability but I don't understand what I should do this is my macro:
events my bluetooth car radio connected

actions wait 1 minute and launch radarbot

To ensure that Radarbot closes when I get out of the car, do I need to create a second macro and what should I edit?
 
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hsurB

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Germano said:
Thank you for your help, I tried your "zones" macro by configuring the location with geofence, but the ringtone didn't go into vibration mode, possible cause
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Tested it and works fine for me


Few things first:

1. You need to enter the area for it to trigger. If you were sitting at home testing it it wouldn't work (even if you set your home as zone). I can't tell if that was your case.

2. Make sure that update frequency is right for your usage, you can change it when configuring trigger. I think its set to 5 minutes by common. You might want it to update more frequently.

3. Make sure that area is big enough. Radius if 20metres might be too small for exemple
 
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