AutoLocation location changes not being detected by Tasker

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  1. Mike T

    Mike T New Member

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    For the past few weeks many of my location changes are not detected by Tasker. I leave for work and have tasks I want to run when I leave my home area but it seems 50:50 whether they get triggered. If I stop autolocation geofence and restart it when location changes are not recognized, then as soon as it restarts Tasker sees the change.
    I don't know how to figure out whether the issue is in autolocation or Tasker. I turned on the logs and all that is in it is "Lite from cache: false" spanning the period when away should have triggered.
    What can I do to get the geofence to work reliably?
     
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    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    If you go into "Manage Geofences" you can see the state of each. Is it correct there?
     
  3. Speshal

    Speshal New Member

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    Oddly enough mine is doing this too.
    I used a free GPS tool from the play store to clear and reset the AGPS data but I'm finding that a few geofences aren't triggering on Tasker.
    In Autolocation it will say I am inside the geofence if I check it manually but the associated task hasn't triggered.
    For example I use a Walking app called MapMyWalk, I have a Tasker profile that opens the app, then Autotools to set GPS on and Autolocation Geofence Monitor and Location Monitor start which works fine. Just a few fences won't trigger the associated profile.
     
  4. Mike T

    Mike T New Member

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    Not sure what you mean by "state". When I go into the Manage selection all I see is my geofence listed. I clicked on it and it opened a map and the map has the correct location. At the top of the page there was a link for backing up geofences, that didn't seem to be related.

    Is there supposed to be a way to see whether the geofence thinks it is inside or outside?

    In any event, I see the same behavior. Tasker did not seem to realize I was outside the geofence until I stop and restart it.
     
  5. Speshal

    Speshal New Member

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    Hi Mike,
    If you go into "Manage Geofences" they should be listed and you should see if you are inside or outside that geofence.
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  6. Mike T

    Mike T New Member

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    I opened the app the next time I saw the error and the geofence thinks I am inside even though I am 20 miles from home. Looking at the forum I see someone else has started a thread with a similar problem. And I already have the "force location monitor to help" button checked.
    Is there anything else we can do to get this to work? As a Google app developer is there a contact with the Android software you can get assistance from?
     

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