HAwake → Home Assistant → Tasker

Wire a custom wake word (trained with HAwake) to Tasker actions on Android, routed through Home Assistant as the event bus.

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How it works

HAwake's "Speech Recognition Mode" setting is supposed to invoke HA's Assist pipeline for speech-to-text — but this is not fully implemented in Home Assistant and will fail. That failure doesn't matter. HAwake reliably fires a hawake_wakeword event to HA when the wake word is detected, and that event is all we need.

Wake word detected (HAwake on phone)
  → fires hawake_wakeword event to Home Assistant
    → HA automation fires taskerha_message event
      → TaskerHA plugin receives it in Tasker
        → Tasker task runs (e.g. start recording)

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Step 1 — Configure HAwake

In the HAwake Android app:

1. Connect it to your Home Assistant instance (URL + long-lived access token)
2. Import the trained ONNX model (Opset 11 — see HAwake training)
3. Enable "Send wake word event to HA"

Speech Recognition Mode can remain configured — it just won't succeed. The wake word event fires regardless.

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Step 2 — Verify the event arrives

Before building the automation, confirm the event is reaching HA:

1. HA → Developer Tools → Events
2. Enter * in "Listen to events" → click Start Listening
3. Trigger your wake word on the phone
4. Confirm hawake_wakeword appears in the log

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Step 3 — Create the HA automation

Create an automation that listens for the wake word event and fires a Tasker-bound event:

alias: Wake word → Tasker
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: event
    event_type: hawake_wakeword
conditions: []
actions:
  - event: taskerha_message
    event_data:
      type: some_type
      message: some message
mode: single

Set type and message to any values — just keep them consistent with what you configure in Tasker.

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Step 4 — Install TaskerHA

TaskerHA is a Tasker plugin that subscribes to Home Assistant events.

1. Install the plugin from the GitHub releases page
2. Connect it to your HA instance (URL + long-lived access token)
3. After installing or updating, fully exit Tasker and restart it — the plugin may not load correctly otherwise

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Step 5 — Create Tasker tasks

Task 1 — Wake Word Triggered (entry point)

Triggered by the taskerha_message event from TaskerHA (filter on the type you set in the HA automation).

#	Action
1	Vibrate 200ms
2	Stop Task: RecordingTimerTask
3	If %IS_recording neq true
4	Variable Set %IS_recording → true
5	Record Audio: Recordings/%DATE_%TIME.mp4
6	End If
7	Perform Task: RecordingTimerTask

If already recording, this resets the watchdog timer without starting a new recording. If not recording, it starts one and starts the timer.

Task 2 — RecordingTimerTask (auto-stop watchdog)

#	Action
1	Wait: 1 hour
2	Perform Task: RecordingStop

Acts as a safety net — stops the recording after 1 hour if not stopped manually. Triggering the wake word again resets this timer (Task 1 kills and restarts it).

Task 3 — RecordingStop

#	Action
1	Record Audio Stop
2	Variable Set %IS_recording → false
3	Vibrate 100ms
4	Wait 100ms
5	Vibrate 100ms

Stops the recording and resets state. The double short vibrate distinguishes "stopped" from the single long "started" vibrate in Task 1.

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Vibration reference

Pattern	Meaning
1× 200ms	Wake word detected, recording started
2× 100ms	Recording stopped