Automate tasks with BoT GPS

Triggers

The trigger is the event that starts the automation.

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  New message

  Triggers once for each new message in a BoT tag's inbox: voice messages (which arrive already transcribed to text), BoT's own system notices, and transit card charges. One message per run, oldest pending first, never repeated. The first run publishes the most recent message and takes the earlier ones as already seen, so activating the task does not replay your whole history.

Actions

The action is what happens automatically, without you having to do anything else.

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  Get the battery level

  Returns how much battery a BoT tag has left, and whether BoT is flagging it as needing a charge. It also returns when the tag last reported: a reading that keeps getting older is itself a sign that the tag has already died. Pair it with the clock trigger and a rule on 'Needs charging' to be warned before it runs out.

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  Get the location

  Returns the last known position of a BoT tag: latitude, longitude, accuracy in metres and a map link, plus how long ago the tag reported it. The tag does not stream its position: it sends it every few minutes, so this is always the latest reading, also when the tag is switched off or out of battery. Use 'Minutes since the reading' if you need to tell 'it is there' from 'it was there when it died'. The battery also comes back, so you do not need a second step for it.