I lock up a building at night and when I am done I send the same text message to the same person. I just got some NFC tags from WhizTags. It comes with a cool little NFC keychain so I thought I would set it up so I just have to tap my phone to the tag and send my message. I have only tested this on my LG G2 which is rooted so YMMV.
Edit: After running through this a few times I found a few things that might help.
Ingredients:
1 Android phone with NFC(I used my rooted LG G2)
1 Tasker app from the play store
1 Locale NFC Plugin from the play store
1 NFC tag
1. Install Tasker and Locale NFC Plugin(Expect to pay a few bucks for these two apps)
2. Open Tasker and press the plus sign to create a new profile
3. Press State
4. Press Plugin
5. Press Locale NFC Plugin
6. Select Invert then click on the edit icon
7. Select "Allow repetitive scan" then scan your NFC tag
8. If you properly scanned your tag you should see the big green check mark and a number(its going to be different from the one in the picture). Press the check mark
9. Double check and make sure you have selected Invert and that it says repetitive next to your tag id number. If everything looks good, Press the Back arrow next to the tasker icon.
10. You should now be back to the profile screen and you should see the "New Task" option. Press New Task
11. Give the new task a name and then press the check mark. I called my "Send sms"
12. Press Phone
13. Press Send SMS
14. Add Phone Number and message. You can click on the magnifying glass to search through your contact list. When you are done. Press the Tasker icon just like we did in step nine.
15. You should now be back in the Task Edit Menu. You can add more tasks if you want but for now we will just stick with the one. Click the Tasker icon again to take you back to the Profile menu.
16. Before you scan the NFC tag your profile will not be active and will be in black text. As soon as you scan it the first time it will become an active profile. That's it!
Edit: After running through this a few times I found a few things that might help.
- This will send a message if you reboot your phone(have not had the time to fix this)
- If you don't disable the Tags app(default app for nfc ) or if you have lots of nfc reading apps on your phone it will pop up a list of apps when you scan a tag. Just choose the one that looks like the locale NFC plugin icon and says Active NFC condition
- if you want the sms to show up in your messaging app on step 14 also select the option Store in Messaging App.
Ingredients:
1 Android phone with NFC(I used my rooted LG G2)
1 Tasker app from the play store
1 Locale NFC Plugin from the play store
1 NFC tag
1. Install Tasker and Locale NFC Plugin(Expect to pay a few bucks for these two apps)
2. Open Tasker and press the plus sign to create a new profile
3. Press State
4. Press Plugin
5. Press Locale NFC Plugin
6. Select Invert then click on the edit icon
7. Select "Allow repetitive scan" then scan your NFC tag
8. If you properly scanned your tag you should see the big green check mark and a number(its going to be different from the one in the picture). Press the check mark
9. Double check and make sure you have selected Invert and that it says repetitive next to your tag id number. If everything looks good, Press the Back arrow next to the tasker icon.
10. You should now be back to the profile screen and you should see the "New Task" option. Press New Task
11. Give the new task a name and then press the check mark. I called my "Send sms"
12. Press Phone
13. Press Send SMS
14. Add Phone Number and message. You can click on the magnifying glass to search through your contact list. When you are done. Press the Tasker icon just like we did in step nine.
15. You should now be back in the Task Edit Menu. You can add more tasks if you want but for now we will just stick with the one. Click the Tasker icon again to take you back to the Profile menu.
16. Before you scan the NFC tag your profile will not be active and will be in black text. As soon as you scan it the first time it will become an active profile. That's it!
