How to detect locked screen in Tasker?

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I'd like to be able to detect a locked screen in Tasker without polling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/3y3kpx/how_to_query_tasker_if_the_screen_is_locked_or_not/ has a solution that polls.

Noel Yap · Answer 1 · 2022-02-15T23:15:27.670

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Create a profile Screen Locked triggered on the event Display Off and calling a task that sets a variable %SCREEN_LOCKED to true iff %SCREEN is off.

Create another profile Screen Unlocked triggered on the event Display Unlocked and calling a task that sets %SCREEN_LOCKED to false.

If you'd like for a profile to be triggered (or not) if the screen is locked: Create a third profile Display Locked triggered on %SCREEN_LOCKED being true and calling some NoOp task (which does pretty much nothing) then use the Profile Active trigger on the profile conditional on screen lock state.

edited Feb 15 '22 at 23:15

answered May 02 '19 at 13:51

Noel Yap

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Why do you need to check iff %SCREEN is off? – user340065 Feb 09 '22 at 14:02
I forgot why that condition is there. Try it without it. – Noel Yap Feb 15 '22 at 23:16

How to detect locked screen in Tasker?

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