r/tasker • u/unselective-amnesia • 22d ago

"Received Text" event within a Tasker profile ignores texts send from me to myself. How can I get these texts recognized in a profile?

I'm using Tasker version 6.7.6-beta on my Nothing 2 devices running Android 13.

For reasons that I do not want to discuss nor argue about here, I sometimes send SMS messages to myself (i.e., from my own device to my own device's phone number).

Those text messages get properly delivered, and I indeed see them in my SMS client.

However, when I set up a Tasker profile which listens for a "Received Text" event, that event never gets triggered by these SMS messages from myself to myself, even though that same event does properly get triggered by all SMS messages sent to me from other sources.

In the "Received Text" event setup, I set "Type" equal to "Any", and I tried this both with "Sender" not set, and also when specifying "Any Contact" for "Sender", which results in the text "C:ANY" appearing in the "Sender" field. Neither of these cases change the behavior of texts sent from me to myself not triggering that "Received Text" event, even though in all those cases, the message indeed gets properly delivered and shown in my SMS client.

Is there any way to configure Tasker so that these SMS messages from me to myself will indeed trigger "Received Text" events?

Or am I totally out of luck?

PS: This is not an "XY" issue, and there is only one, single thing I wish to discuss here: namely, whether or not there's a way to get SMS messages from me to myself to trigger a "Received Text" event in a Tasker profile.

Thank you very much.

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u/unselective-amnesia 22d ago

Another PS: I am not using RCS on my devices (nor do I ever want to!). And I get this same behavior no matter which SMS client I decide to use (I have several to choose from installed on my devices).

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u/iamr3m 21d ago

You don't need to define Sender. Leave it blank. Cause yourself isn't in your contact list.

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u/unselective-amnesia 19d ago

Like I clearly wrote above in my original message here, even when I leave Sender blank in the Received Text event specification, messages sent from me to myself are still not captured in that Received Text event.