Hi,
I’ve recently been experimenting with Tasker, AutoVera, Autovoice and “NFC Starter Plugin” for Tasker.
I’d like to know if there is any way to quicken the response time using Tasker and AutoVera with either of the other two plugins I mentioned as the trigger for tasks.
One macro I’ve set up runs a task on my Elk alarm system through AutoVera after Tasker detects an NFC tag hidden near my front door with the NFC Starter Plugin. That Elk task then momentarily closes a relay which in turn buzzes the front door for me to enter. I automatically connect to my network as I approach my home and carry out everything over my LAN.
The problem is that it seems to take forever from the time that the phone detects the tag to the moment the door is buzzed. The time seems to vary and occasionally the task will fail outright (I’m guessing it times out). A strange behavior that I’ve noticed is that if I test a task from Tasker, it will take many seconds to work the first time but consecutive attempts seem to be a bit quicker.
Is there a way to optimize this? Could part of the problem be heavy network traffic (even though I have a pretty good router and the traffic originates from my laptop rather than the Vera)?
Thanks for any insights.
