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+title: Airflow and Temperature in a Lehmann Acoustic Rack
+taxonomy:
+    tag:
+        - Android
+        - org-mode
+        - orgzly
+date: '2017-07-08 00:00'
+summary:
+    size: 200
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+
+# Syncing org files to an Android device
+
+## Note
+
+This is an old setup which I don't use anymore. Syncthing has gotten much better
+and works now good enough for my needs.
+
+## The Problem
+
+Since I've began using org-mode extensivly I thought it would be nice to be able
+to view the files on my Android device. There is a nice app called Orgzly which
+you can get from the PlayStore or the F-Droid repository. However Orgzly doesn't
+include the ability to sync the org files. I finally found a solution to this
+problem however. It's a bit of a hack but it's working very well, which is all
+that counts.
+
+## The Solution
+
+I've create the solution with my two favourite apps, Tasker and Termux. You can
+get both apps from the PlayStore. In addition to Termux you will need the app
+Termux:Task. It allows one to run Shell scripts from Termux in a Tasker task.
+
+### Setting up Termux
+
+I will only cover the basic configuration needed to get the sync running. If you
+want to learn more about Termux I recommend that you go to the official help
+page.
+
+First you need to run:
+
+```
+packages upgrade
+```
+
+This upgrades the Termux packages to the newest version. I recommend that you
+restart Termux afterwards. Since I keep my org-files in a git repository I'm
+going to install git in Termux. After the upgrade we can use pkg instead of
+packages.
+
+```
+pgk install git
+```
+
+Afterwards we need to run:
+
+```
+termux-setup-storage
+```
+
+This will open a prompt on your device with which you can grant Termux access to
+the internal storage. We will need this to be able to clone the git repository
+into it. Setting up the git repository is something which I won't cover in this
+guide. There are plenty of other guides on the web about this topic. Just make
+sure that you clone the repository somewhere in `/sdcard/`
+
+As a next step you need to create the directory to store your scripts which will
+be used by Tasker.
+
+```
+mkdir -p ~/.termux/tasker
+```
+
+Inside that directory I created a script called `sync-notes.sh` and made it
+executable. The content of that script is:
+
+``` bash
+#!/bin/bash
+
+date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" >> ~/notes.log
+git -C /sdcard/Git/notes pull >> ~/notes.log
+exit 0
+```
+
+This adds the current time and date to a log file in the Termux home directory
+and pulls in the newest commmits from my notes repository. Since Termux works
+slightly different than a normal Linux environment we need to execute one last
+command.
+
+```
+termux-fix-shebang .termux/tasker/sync-notes.sh
+```
+
+This will correct the sheband `#!/bin/bash` to one that works with Termux.
+
+### Setting up Tasker
+
+Setting up Tasker quite easily done. I'm going to asume that your familiar with
+Tasker and explain only the parts specific to Termux and Orgzly. In general I
+just created a Profile which executes the sync task every 3 hours.
+
+After you've setup the profile create a Task from the Termux Plugin. You can
+find it under Plugins->Termux:Task. The plugin allows you to specify the script
+you want to execute. Just write the first few letters of the script name and it
+will show you all the files which begin with that name. The following
+screenshots might show it a bit better what I mean.
+![2017-07-08_termux-task.png](./2017-07-08_termux-task.png)
+![2017-07-08_tasker-action.png](./2017-07-08_tasker-action.png)
+
+When you finished the Termux task we'll setup a task which triggers the sync
+function of Orgzly. If we wouldn't do this we would've the up to date files on
+the device but they wouldn't show up in the Orgzly app. For this create code
+task step: Code->Run Shell The command you have to execute is:
+
+```
+am startservice --user 0 -a com.orgzly.intent.action.SYNC\_START com.orgzly/com.orgzly.android.sync.SyncService
+```
+
+![2017-07-08_tasker-command.png](./2017-07-08_tasker-command.png)
+
+This is everything we need to setup in Tasker and your task should look
+something like this.
+
+![2017-07-08_tasker-task.png](./2017-07-08_tasker-task.png)
+
+Once you've saved it Tasker will update the git repository in the specified
+interval and refresh the Orgzly views.