Tasker reading from Truecaller

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  1. mentos

    mentos New Member

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    I am trying to make a tasker script which can read the details from a Truecaller display when a call comes in and log the caller's name along with call derails in a sheet on Google Drive.
    However I am unable to find a plugin which can read from the Truecaller display.
    Can anyone suggest such a plugin?
     
    mentos, Nov 5, 2015
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  2. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Have you tried AutoInput yet?
     
    joaomgcd, Nov 6, 2015
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    Hi, sorry for the late reply. Yes I tried the trial version of AutoInput "Manage input actions" but AutoInput would not detect the overlay from Truecaller on the incoming call screen.
     
    mentos, Dec 29, 2015
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    Oh, right, AutoInput can't detect overlays, sorry!
     
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    Can you suggest any other way/app to do it?
     
    mentos, Jan 1, 2016
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    Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Truecaller sorry!
     
    joaomgcd, Jan 4, 2016
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  7. AJ Shaikh

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    I've found a work-around for this by using the OCR function of AutoTools.
    - do screenshot of incoming call screen (with the Trucaller's overlay) using Run Shell command and have resulting png file saved in specific location
    - Autotool's OCR then reads the screenshot png file from that location
    - do variable split on %atocrvalue and extract Truecaller's caller info into a variable
    - speak out the caller info variable during ring
    - delete the screenshot file
     
    AJ Shaikh, Jun 16, 2017
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    I have some problems in splitting the %atocrvalue variable, meaning that I tried to separate it by "," but no value is returned. Can you explain to me, please, how did you do it?
     
    GXG.O, Nov 20, 2017
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  9. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    It's an array, so you have to access a position on it :) Try using %atocrvalue(1) for example.
     
    joaomgcd, Nov 21, 2017
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    Thank you very much for your help. Now I understand what I have to do.
     
    GXG.O, Nov 21, 2017
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  11. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Glad you got it! :)
     
    joaomgcd, Nov 21, 2017
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