Pebble Time with Michael – Day 14
Let me start out this part of the review by giving you an example of a Tasker script that I actually have running on my phone that makes use MyTimeline’s functionality.
I volunteer at a hospital gift shop, working the 5PM – 8PM shift. I need to close the gift shop by 7:30PM in order to have time to close out the registers and get out of there by 8PM. So I would like my Pebble Time to remind me at 7:30PM to close the gift show and lock the doors, but only on nights when I’m actually working in the gift shop.
So I created a Tasker script as follows: when I’m in the hospital (using Tasker’s location fixing function to determine if I am within 200 meters of the hospital’s GPS coordinates) and it’s 5PM (which means I’m actually there to work at the gift shop and not for some other reason, like a volunteer luncheon), then put a “Close Gift Shop” entry in my Pebble Time’s timeline with a time of 7:30PM and with a reminder set to go off at that time. Guess what – whenever I’m working in the gift shop, at 7:30PM I get a reminder from my Pebble Time to close the shop, no matter how busy or distracted I might be at that moment. If I’m not working at the gift shop, nothing happens at 7:30PM. Pretty handy, no?
Let’s discuss a couple of further examples. The picture in this article shows the results of a couple of additional MyTimeline scripts that I have set up on my phone.
The first script adds a “Lunch” item to my Pebble Time’s timeline along with a reminder. This is used when I’m working with a patient I volunteer to help through my local hospice program. It’s triggered when it’s between 12:15 and 12:30 and I’m actually located inside his house. This reminds me to bring him the lunch that is left for him by his caregiver. Again, it happens automatically whenever I’m working with him, and doesn’t when I’m not.
The second script simply reminds me to check my mailbox whenever I’m home between 3:30PM and 5:30PM, Monday through Saturday. Of course, I don’t need to check on it on Sunday. If it’s Sunday, or I’m not home during this time, nothing happens. Otherwise my Pebble Time gently reminds me to check my mailbox for today’s mail.
Let me give you one more example, one I don’t happen to actually use, but is quite possible to create with the MyTimeline Tasker Plugin. MyTimeline can work with any phone, not just your’s. The Pebble Time MyTimeline app can send its unique identifier to any Android phone that has Tasker and the MyTimeline Plugin installed on it and enable them to push timeline entries onto that watch. So, let’s say your spouse has an Android phone and you would like to know when they leave work so that you’ll have dinner ready when they get home. The Tasker location fixing function can also trigger when a phone leaves a specified area as well as when it is inside it. So you could create a script that would push a timeline entry onto your Pebble Time when they leave work with a notification that will immediately buzz and display “Spouse leaving work” on your watch.
The possibilities of this software are nearly endless and only limited by your imagination. Now I think you can see why I’m so excited about this piece of software. It expands the capabilities of the new core functionality that first appeared in the Pebble Time – its timeline – in ways that are only limited by our ability to imagine them. Aren’t you excited now, too?