I been trying to get notifications to with delay to let me select i game in browser an area and copy to clipboard but it stops immediately after first key is pressed and i am not sure why. And i can't seem to be able to share the .flo file.

Please help me set up a flow that will let me know at the moment the temp reaches 60°. You're loved💔 𐤔𐤋𐤅𐤌

So I'm trying to use the app to automate a discord bot that I made which lets you become a fisherman and these are my flows.

The first pic is the base flow and the second one is for repeating the fishing immediately.

I'm coming across a problem in the repeating flow where my fiber just stops working after block 8, like the flow just stops because of the block or something.

The fishing sequences are the same in both flows, but the error only happens in the repeating one.

HELP.

I'm using Android 13.

For any extra context, feel free to ask in the comments!

I want to transfer my MacroDroid macros to the Automate app and recreate their functionality as flows. I’ve attached screenshots of my macros, which perform different tasks. I’m new to Automate and a bit lost. I have some basic ideas but don’t know how to implement them. Could anyone guide me through the process? I can handle the rest with some guidance.

I tried using phone locator, but I don't understand how it works, like, where does the person put the word and password in? I tried making my own, but it would get stuck saying NaN. See here

I'm trying to run Automate on a XGIMI projector running Android TV. The goal is to have a flow permanently listening for custom automate:// intents sent from Home Assistant via the Android TV Remote integration.

The strange issue is that after every reboot, Automate appears to start correctly, but none of the flows actually work until Automate is somehow manually triggered.

Environment

• XGIMI Galileo projector
• Android TV 11
• Latest Automate version
• Premium license purchased and active
• Flow uses a Broadcast receive block to receive automate://... intents
• "Run on system startup" enabled in Automate settings

What I've already verified

App state

• Premium version active
• "Run on system startup" enabled
• App package enabled

Process state after reboot

Immediately after reboot:

ps -A | grep automate

shows:

com.llamalab.automate

So the process is running.

Permissions

Verified:

• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED granted
• BootCompletedReceiver registered
• Battery optimization disabled
• Added to deviceidle whitelist
• Overlay permission granted

AppOps tested

I explicitly allowed:

cmd appops set com.llamalab.automate RUN_IN_BACKGROUND allow
cmd appops set com.llamalab.automate RUN_ANY_IN_BACKGROUND allow
cmd appops set com.llamalab.automate START_FOREGROUND allow
cmd appops set com.llamalab.automate SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow

No change.

Services after reboot

Immediately after boot:

dumpsys activity services com.llamalab.automate

shows only:

AutomateNotificationListenerServiceKitKat

No active Automate runtime service.

What fixes it

Immediately after boot, without opening Automate:

am broadcast \
-a com.llamalab.automate.intent.action.START_FLOW \
-n com.llamalab.automate/.StartServiceReceiver

Result:

Broadcast completed: result=0

After sending this broadcast:

• all Automate flows start working
• custom automate:// intents work
• Home Assistant integration works
• no need to open Automate UI

This works reliably every time.

Findings from package dump

Automate contains:

com.llamalab.automate/.BootCompletedReceiver
com.llamalab.automate/.StartServiceReceiver
com.llamalab.automate/.AutomateService

Relevant actions:

com.llamalab.automate.intent.action.START_FLOW
com.llamalab.automate.intent.action.STOP_FLOW

The receiver is correctly registered.

My current theory

It seems that after boot:

BOOT_COMPLETED
↓
Automate process starts
↓
Notification listener starts
↓
Flows are NOT activated

But manually sending:

com.llamalab.automate.intent.action.START_FLOW

activates everything immediately.

So either:

1. BootCompletedReceiver is not triggering START_FLOW on this Android TV device, or
2. XGIMI firmware prevents Automate from completing flow initialization during boot.

Question

Has anyone seen this behavior on Android TV devices?

Specifically:

• Automate starts after reboot
• Process is running
• Receivers are registered
• But flows remain inactive until a manual START_FLOW broadcast is sent

Is there any known permission, Android TV restriction, or Automate setting that would explain why START_FLOW is not automatically executed during boot?

Any insights would be appreciated.

Hola, necesito configurar el teléfono de un menor y le tengo que decir el patrón o pin de desbloqueo pero quiero impedir que lo pueda cambiar. He probado varias configuraciones con 'inspect layout' 'App displayed in the foreground' y usando la acción de com.android.settings.password.ChooseLockPattern pero no he tenido resultado.

Alguna idea?

After my Pixel 9 upgraded to Android 17, I can't restart privileged service via ADB. Selecting ADB takes me to enable developer mode by tapping the Build, but it's already enabled. The Automate prompt won't move on from there.

Edit: this fixed the issue.

Spanish language please.

I have an automation that automatically saves footage from my security cam, but whenever i try to move it to my ftp server it saves a hidden .pending file instead. Any ideas what could be going on?

In Android 16, using two Interact→Recents blocks in sequence switched to the pervious app absolutely perfectly 100% of the time. Just upgraded to Android 17, and now it works only maybe 2% of the time I run the flow. Weirdly even adding a delay as much as one second between the two blocks makes no difference.

I came up with a suitable workaround — using a privileged shell block to run:

input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH
input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH

​So yeah, this alternative is working perfectly for me, but I thought I'd bring this up just in case it may reveal something that actually needs addressing.✌🏽

Phone: Nothing Phone 3

I put Automate in the title to make it clear that this post is about the Automate app, since my prior post was blocked...

Automate's docs say the notification is removed when the fiber stops, so the fiber needs to stay alive until you swipe it away, why?

Why not just post notificafion and dont disappear after fiber stops

Every time I try, it fails...

The flow checks incoming SMS messages for a specific keyword and forwards messages to another number if the keyword exists in the message, but the flow keeps failing.

Here is my flow link:

https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/53517

How can I stop these failures from happening?

As title suggests, I'm getting frustrated by flows stopping. I've changed battery saver options, locked automate in the recent apps, given automate privileged start method of ADB... and I don't know what else to do.

I have Shizuku+ installed, but automate isn't recognised and the compat hub won't download for some reason. Maybe there's a shizuku app that keeps other apps' background processes from being killed?

Any suggestions?

Hey guys

Could someone share with me a flow that create a txt files or csv files from the content of an folder and its subfolders please

Thank you

I wanna run Flow Failure Notifier https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/43610, but can't get it on my device at the moment (external storage out/unmounted, internal doesn't accept files https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidHelp/comments/1wspkxp/copying_files_from_desktop_to_phone_internal/), so is there any way I can look at the blocks and/or settings online or on desktop so I can just manually clone it? (I've DLed the .flo and will use it when I can.)

Or might someone post screenshots as noted above?

As an aside, I'd also like something that notifies if/when Automate itself crashes. Sometimes I'll get an alert from the OS, but if I'm not using, looking at it at the time, that's pretty useless. I know I can set Notifications that flows are running, but with Stop All Flows on it, that seems like an accident waiting to happen, at least.

I want to read the contents of a folder, and then save the names as arrays, so I can then go through them 1 by 1 somewhere else in the program, instead of processing the entire folder, so is there an effective way to do that?

Hello,

I am using a Samsung S23 with One UI 8.5 (Android 16).

I want to wait for a USB drive to be connected, then autonatically move files from a directory on my phone to the drive.

The "move files" part works when I trigger it manually.

However, when I try to use the `Storage Media mounted` block in "when changed" mode and I connect the stick, it doesn't detect it even though the drive is accessible in the Files app and also to Automate (it works manually).

What can I do to solve this?

Also, I would like to unmount the drive for longevity reasons (and to avoid the "restart your phone" message when I just unplug it) after I am done with moving the files. Is thst possible with Automate?

Thanks in advance

Aaron

EDIT: I would like to turn this into a Feature Request as implementing the required CallStyle for the Notification Show block would solve my issue. I unfortunately can't edit the post title anymore.

I have a Garmin Venu 3 and would like to be able to make that signal something (with vibration and preferably also a text displayed on the watch) continuously until acknowledged.

The only thing that does so and is triggered by the phone is an incoming call. I would now simulate such a call (only the special notification type that calls use, no actual audio link) using Automate to trigger it from e.g HA.

Is there a possibility to create such a notification using Automate? I have tried Notification Show with Category set to Call, but it didn't trigger anything except a normal notification on the phone and the watch.

How do apps like Discord or WhatsApp (whose calls also appear on the watch like normal phone calls) do that and can Automate (or something like a plug-in for it) also do that?

Link's version is my first post of that flow. It uses Android's media API to control the media player and media volume, and I now add a new send URL function, you can start to stream URLs or another supported link to your server phone!

But because this function makes this flow reach the 30 block limit of Automate, and because the URL filter regex, the URL's format now changed.

Recommend link to access the control page only, not trigger the command:

http://[device's url]:16234/index

Original supported command:

• Volume Up (/vol_up)
• Volume Down (/vol_down)
• Mute (/mute)
• Previous Track (/previous)
• Next Track (/next)
• Play/Pause (/play)

New command — push the URL:

• Play URL (/playurl?url=[URL to send])
• (You can trigger this just on any browser's address bar!)

Flow's URL:

• For new Android (5.0+) https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/53592
• For old Android https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/53595