Receive Intent as Action?

chaoscreater

Active member
Hi,

Could I please request for the "Receive Intent" to be made as an Action as well? Currently, this is only available as a Trigger. I would like to configure the Trigger to run on a time/date basis and as the Action, I want to receive an intent. For example, when I pair my bluetooth to my headphone, an intent is received. But I would have to disconnect bluetooth and connect it again to receive another intent. Rather than doing that, I just want to force an intent to be received at any time that I want.
 

FrameXX

Well-known member
and as the Action, I want to receive an intent.
You just blew my mind!

Man. Why would you need to receive intent just from nothing? Triggers are here to inform macro when to start something and are always connected with some information. If you want to trigger another macros across MacroDroid (or make macros communicate with each other) then use variables or "Macro Run" action.
 

Pseudocyclic

Well-known member
Hi,

Could I please request for the "Receive Intent" to be made as an Action as well? Currently, this is only available as a Trigger. I would like to configure the Trigger to run on a time/date basis and as the Action, I want to receive an intent. For example, when I pair my bluetooth to my headphone, an intent is received. But I would have to disconnect bluetooth and connect it again to receive another intent. Rather than doing that, I just want to force an intent to be received at any time that I want.
For your macro to receive an intent, the intent first has to be sent....
 

Jacob L

Moderator (Lawsonator)
See if this helps:

Also, there's an action called send intent, which, may be what you are looking for
 

chaoscreater

Active member
Can't you force an intent to be received from a device? Is the communication only one-way and not both ways?

What I'm trying to do is to force a battery check of my bluetooth headphone. Clearly, Android can detect the battery level of my connected bluetooth devices. There is some sort of constant sync between the device and Android. I just need MacroDroid to do a regular check of my bluetooth device's battery level and display this as a popup.

Currently, my macro checks for the battery level of my bluetooth device when it is first connected, but it cannot check at a regular interval

On Windows, I have tools that allows me to do a constant check of the battery level of my connected devices, so I don't see why this isn't possible for Android, especially since the native Bluetooth settings already supports battery level status reporting.
 

FrameXX

Well-known member
Can't you force an intent to be received from a device? Is the communication only one-way and not both ways?

What I'm trying to do is to force a battery check of my bluetooth headphone. Clearly, Android can detect the battery level of my connected bluetooth devices. There is some sort of constant sync between the device and Android. I just need MacroDroid to do a regular check of my bluetooth device's battery level and display this as a popup.

Currently, my macro checks for the battery level of my bluetooth device when it is first connected, but it cannot check at a regular interval

On Windows, I have tools that allows me to do a constant check of the battery level of my connected devices, so I don't see why this isn't possible for Android, especially since the native Bluetooth settings already supports battery level status reporting.

Try BlueTask plugin. It has that option.
 
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