AutoCast AutoCast-Speak to google home works only if Phone is awake

Hi,
#1 I have a profile where I want to use AutoCast to send a text for speak to GoogleHome (using Autocast-Speak). If phone is awake (display turned on) everything works fine. If phone display is off, I can never hear that text on GoogleHome.
Phone is Galaxy S6 edge.
I checked my battery settings on the phone to make sure doesn't restrict Tasker or AutoCast from running in background.

#2 Another issue is that if I execute a profili/task which issues an Autocast-Speak to my GH, after execution finishes, I see on my phone notifications a notificaiton from Autocast saying "Casting..". This stays there forever if I don't tap on it. If I try to ask my GH to play soome music msic will start and will stop in few seconds with a beep sound after it (and here I am guessing that Autocast does something I don't understand). If i click the Autocast notification on my phone to make it go away, music plays fine on my GH (if I ask GH to play music)

 

1. Don't think its related to my case. In my case the profile is triggered and almost everithing inside it works fine except autoCase (I remind that AutoCast only doesn't get triggered when phone is with screen off);
2. I already tried AutoCast App action. The notification is still there on my phone. And asking google to play music gets stopped after few seconds followed by that beep. I added delays before calling AutoCast App with no help

 

1. Yes, other plugins work fine;
2. Here is the task. When task is running, I can hear the beeps, but autovoice does not send anything to GH. Sometimes if I turn on my phone's display withing few minutes after the failed execution, my GH speaks the text

The Spreadsheet Query works in the below task (I tested it by comparing resulting value with a number and playing a beep on specific value). Also I have other tasks that use AutoContacts and those work fine while phone has screen closed.

Code (Text):

Calculate Spendings (5)
A1: [X] Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:5 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A2: Beep [ Frequency:8000 Duration:1000 Amplitude:50 Stream:3 ]
A3: [X] AutoCast App [ Configuration:
Starting AutoCast
Cast Device: Kitchen Home Timeout (Seconds):300 ]
A4: [X] AutoCast Speak [ Configuration:Device: Kitchen Home
Text: calculating Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
A5: Spreadsheet Query [ Configuration:Query SpendingsTracker Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A6: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:3 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A7: Beep [ Frequency:6380 Duration:1000 Amplitude:50 Stream:3 ]
A8: AutoCast Speak [ Configuration:Device: Kitchen Home
Language: en-US
Text: In last 30 days you spent %row1cells() Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
A9: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:7 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A10: AutoCast App [ Configuration:
Stopping AutoCast
Cast Device: Kitchen Home Timeout (Seconds):300 ]

 

I don't know how to do that (neither block nor whitelist). So, whatever was the default, it should be set now also....
I would like to remind that everything works fine while phone is awake.
I checked under battery settings to see if any application is restricted from working in background, and none is set there.
I even added all AutoApp related applications (AutoApp, Tasker, Autocast, AutoContacts, AutoVoice) under the battery section "Unmonitorred apps" where "These apps can use as much power as they want and App power monitor will not do anything to stop them". No difference.

 

I don't plan to downgrade my Android on my phone but, as I said before might not be related. This compalins that Tasker profiles not being triggered. My profile is triggered, but just an action in my Task doesn't get fired. Any other plugin seems to work fine. Just Autocast seems to not work...

 

Yes, I am 100% that other plugins work fine with screen off.

 

Np. I already tried it. I am using some spreadsheet plugin that connect to my google drive account and retrieves some value from a spreadsheet. That one works fine (I even use it in the same task/profile with autovoice). The spreadsheet plugin retrieves a value. I changed my task to beep if value equals 123. Then I play in spreadsheet from my computer and change that value, triggering the Tasker plugin with Google home voice command. When I set in spreadsheet value to other than 123, no beep is played. when I set it to 123, I can hear the beep fine. Which means that this plugin works fine.
The task itself should speak this spreadsheet value on my google home device using Autocast (and as U know already, it does it only if my phone is awake)
Even if instead of the value I try to make it speak a static (constant) value, same issue happens.

 

Here is again the profile and the logs:
Profile:
Profile: Join Spending Tracker (11)
Event: Join Received Push [ Configuration:Text Filter: Calculate Spendings ]
Enter: Calculate Spendings (5)
A1: [X] Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:5 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A2: Beep [ Frequency:8000 Duration:1000 Amplitude:50 Stream:3 ]
A3: [X] AutoCast App [ Configuration:
Starting AutoCast
Cast Device: Kitchen Home Timeout (Seconds):300 ]
A4: [X] AutoCast Speak [ Configurationevice: Kitchen Home
Text: calculating Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
A5: Spreadsheet Query [ Configuration:Query SpendingsTracker Timeout (Seconds):20 ]
A6: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:3 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A7: Beep [ Frequency:6380 Duration:1000 Amplitude:50 Stream:3 ]
A8: AutoCast Speak [ Configurationevice: Kitchen Home
Language: en-US
Text: In last 30 days you spent %row1cells() Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
A9: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:7 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]
A10: AutoCast App [ Configuration:
Stopping AutoCast
Cast Device: Kitchen Home Timeout (Seconds):300 ]

Tasker logs:
20170905 16.31.07 P Instant ID11 Join Spending Tracker
20170905 16.31.07 E Start ID0:0.0 TaskService
20170905 16.31.07 T Running ID5 Calculate Spendings
20170905 16.31.07 A Disabled ID5.1 Calculate Spendings.Wait
20170905 16.31.08 A OK ID5.2 Calculate Spendings.Beep
20170905 16.31.08 A Disabled ID5.3 Calculate Spendings.com.joaomgcd.autocast\n***\n*!&$*;com.joaomgcd.autocast.activity.ActivityConfigApp
20170905 16.31.08 A Disabled ID5.4 Calculate Spendings.com.joaomgcd.autocast\n***\n*!&$*;com.joaomgcd.autocast.activity.ActivityConfigSpeak
20170905 16.31.08 A OK ID5.5 Calculate Spendings.com.uitcon.spreadsheettaskerplugin\n***\n*!&$*;com.uitcon.spreadsheettaskerplugin.activities.QueryActivity
20170905 16.31.14 A OK ID5.6 Calculate Spendings.Wait
20170905 16.31.15 A OK ID5.7 Calculate Spendings.Beep
20170905 16.31.15 A OK ID5.8 Calculate Spendings.com.joaomgcd.autocast\n***\n*!&$*;com.joaomgcd.autocast.activity.ActivityConfigSpeak
20170905 16.31.23 A OK ID5.9 Calculate Spendings.Wait
20170905 16.31.23 A OK ID5.10 Calculate Spendings.com.joaomgcd.autocast\n***\n*!&$*;com.joaomgcd.autocast.activity.ActivityConfigApp
20170905 16.31.23 T ExitOK ID5 Calculate Spendings
20170905 16.31.23 E Stop ID0:0.0 TaskService

Autocast logs:
HTTP Server:
2017-09-05 16:31:23.218 Stopping server
2017-09-05 16:31:15.672 Starting server
Casting:
2017-09-05 16:31:15.650 Service started

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With my phone screen open, the Autocast - Casting logs look like this:
version 1.0.25

OS Build NRD90M.G925FXXS5EQG2
OS Code 24
Device SM-G925F
Manufacturer samsung
Product zeroltexx

HTTP Server - 2017-09-05 16:38:31.537 - Stopping Server
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:31.497 - New AutoCast App Status: {"eventType":"timeupdate","request":{"type":"RequestReceiverEvent"}};
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:30.552 - New AutoCast App Status: {"eventType":"timeupdate","request":{"type":"RequestReceiverEvent"}};
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:29.950 - New AutoCast App Status: {"eventType":"playing","request":{"type":"RequestReceiverEvent"}};
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:29.394 - New AutoCast App Status: {"eventType":"timeupdate","request":{"type":"RequestReceiverEvent"}};
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:28.238 - RequestSetValues sent
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:28.221 - New AutoCast App Status: {"eventType":"connected","request":{"type":"RequestReceiverEvent"}};
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:24.403 - found
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:24.395 - found
HTTP Server - 2017-09-05 16:38:24.359 - Starting Server
Casting - 2017-09-05 16:38:24.340 - Service started

 

Don't know... If U could tell me how to check it, I will check and let U know.

 

nope

 

Hi,

it seems like i have a similar problem here. I have a Tasker profile set up which triggers autocast to play a mp3 file on my google home after getting a command from autoremote.
When the phone display is on, it plays after about 2 seconds, no issues.
When the screen is off, nothing plays until i turn on the screen
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Other plugins which use network connections work fine, wake on lan and autoremote had no problems.
I tried 2 different phones with miui and different aosp based custom roms, some of them rooted, tasker and autocast whitelisted on any battery saver apps etc.

My google app is the latest beta, i don't have any other of the mentioned bugs in the g+ post, everything else works fine.