Wanted to share with the community some extra very interesting functionality that @nikie answered in the mathematica stackexchange that can be very useful and cool when combined with the GeoLocation Data gathering functionality. Extracting road curves from image.

Thank you for the posting Alan, it is most helpful!

Diego, this is terrific. Tasker hadn't occurred to me before, but I immediately started creating some tasks and profiles on my phone after reading your post.

You might consider adding "Interpretation" to your databin so all the values for a given key are automatically assigned correct quantities or put into more immediately useful formats.

Here you can find out standard units for different Tasker variables: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/variables.html.

And then you could do something like this with your example bin above :

SetOptions[
  Databin[MyBinID], 
  “Interpretation”->
     {
      "loc"->"GeoCoordinates",
      "locSpeed" -> Restricted["StructuredQuantity", ("Meters")/("Seconds")], 
      "lightLevel" -> Restricted["StructuredQuantity", "Lux"], 
      "magneticField" -> Restricted["StructuredQuantity", "Microteslas”]
     }
  ]

Hi,

I did something similar, but without Databin at the time for the iPhone,

http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/344278

I have managed to look at Parkinson tremor data with it though. The things is that the streaming only works within the same network or it records the data locally - which is not that much fun. Alternatively, a Raspberry can pick the signal up and relay it to the Databin. I, too, have tried to get a Tasker like program for the iPhone and the closest thing I could find was:

https://workflow.is

It can send data by email. I managed to record my GPS positions on the way to work with it and have it sent to an email account. So technically it should work with the Databin. I'll try to show results later.

Cheers,

M.

Thanks Vitaly! I'm currently logging a snapshot of the variables every 2 minutes. For a better study on my phone usage pattern, I created three additional profiles:one when I turn on the screen, one when I turn off the screen, one when I navigate between applications. I had to remove the wolframdatalog task from them and replace it with a data logger on the phone memory due to the restrictions of a maximum of 60 data points per hour on the free account.

I'll have to search for a similar app for my kid's iphones. Im interested to see how much of their time they spend on their phone. Seems they are always plugged to the device.

This is fantastic, Diego, thank you for sharing! I will have to play with this. I am giving the link to the Tasker app you were using. Looks like they have some starter guides on their site.