Get the birthday of your contacts by using AutoVoice

This tutorial will explain, how to retrieve the birthday of a specific contact. We can use a command like this: when is the birthday of John.

Requirements:

• An android phone
• Tasker
• AutoVoice
• AutoContacts
• AutoTools

Step 1: AutoVoice & AutoContacts

Be sure that AutoVoice and AutoContacts are correctly installed. Also be sure, that all your contacts are listed in the database. Before you start, refresh your contacts:

• Open AutoContacts
• Click on Force Refresh Contacts

Step 2: Creating the profile

First, let’s make a new profile, called AV Contacts - Birthday

• Create a new trigger/context: Event > Plugin > AutoVoice > Recognized
• Choose the The Hard Way
• Command: birthday of (?<name>.+)
• Enable Regex

Step 4: Creating the task

Now we make our task, called AV Contacts - Birthday

• AutoContacts Query 2.0
  • Names: %name
  • Sort Direction: Ascending
  • Fields to get: Id,Event Start Date,Event Next Date,Name
  • Joiner=:=
• If %acname is Set
  • If %acevent_next_date is Set
    • Variable set: %born_date to %acevent_start_date(1)
    • Variable split: %born_date Splitter:-
    • Variable set: %born_year to %born_date1
    • Variable set: %born_month to %born_date2 / 1 (Do Math: Enabled!)
    • Variable set: %born_day to %born_date3
    • AutoTools Time: Time span between dates
      • Start Date: Year: %born_year
      • Start Date: Month: %born_month
      • Start Day: Day: %born_day
      • End Date: Use now: true
    • Variable set: %age to %atdateyears
    • Variable set: %monthindex to %born_month / 1 (Do Math: Enabled!)
    • Variable set: %months to January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December
    • Variable split: %months Splitter:, (Splitter is comma)
    • Say: The birthday of %acname is on %born_day % months(%monthindex). This person is now %age years old
  • Else
    • Say: Sorry, no birthday has been found
  • End if
• Else
  • Say: There is no contact found with that name
• End If