How to Automate Your Phone at Work Using AutomateIt

AutomateIt is the best phone automation app out there so how do you use it at work.  The items I want automated at work include sound, Wifi connection, and data use.  I have many rules written for AutomateIt which can be found here, so the key is making sure the new work rules are compatible with those.

• Sound Work - Trigger is location is work.  The sampling rate is 5 min (anytime after 30 seconds will work since work enable time is 30 seconds).  Action is turn phone on vibrate.  I do this because I want AutomateIt to turn off my phone's sounds one time while I am at work.  I use this rule along with enable sound work and disable sound work to only allow my phone to turn my phone on vibrate once because I might want to have sound on and I don't want it to keep turning my phone volume off all day.

• Work Disable - This rule turns on your work sound rule. Work Disable works together with the rule Work Enable to check your location only once. I use the next three AutomateIt rules with my headphone jack but it could also be used with a time. The trigger for this rule is headset is unplugged. The action for this rule is enable rule Sound Work.

• Work Enable - The trigger for this rule is headset is unplugged. The action for this rule is disable rule Work Sound. The key to this AutomateIt rule is the delayed execution. I have mine for 30 seconds which allows Work Sound to check the location and then turns Work Sound off before it checks your location again.

• Wifi Work Off 1 - This AutomateIt rule turns my Wifi off when I am teaching to save my battery.  The trigger is time is 9:30 and the action is turn off Wifi.

• Wifi Work Off 2 - This AutomateIt rule turns my Wifi off when I am teaching to save my battery.  The trigger is time is 12:15 and the action is turn off Wifi.

• Wifi Work On 1 - This AutomateIt rule turns my Wifi back on during lunch.  I have Wifi at work but if I did not then I would not have this rule and the rule Wifi Work Off 2.  The trigger is time is 11:35 and the action is turn Wifi on.

• Wifi Work On 2 - This AutomateIt rule turns my Wifi back on after school so it is on when I get home.  The trigger is time is 3:05 and the action is turn Wifi on.

• Data Work Off 1 - This AutomateIt rule turns my data off when I am teaching to save my battery.  The trigger is time is 9:30 and the action is turn off data.

• Data Work Off 2 - This AutomateIt rule turns my data off when I am teaching to save my battery.  The trigger is time is 12:15 and the action is turn off data.

• Data Work On 1 - This AutomateIt rule turns my data back on during lunch.  The trigger is time is 11:35 and the action is turn data on.

• Data Work On 2 - This AutomateIt rule turns my data back on after school so it is on when I get in the car I still am receiving and sending data.  The trigger is time is 3:05 and the action is turn data on.

The only reasons I wrote rules for my data also is because the Wifi connection at my work does not always work great.  I would have similar rules for my GPS but since I have so many rules using my GPS and I have the free version it would be really hard to disable all of those rules and disable GPS.  I do not want to just turn in off without turning those rules off because it will still look for 10 sec which will drain my battery.

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