[SOLVED] How to make tasker wait for a variable to change?

How to make tasker wait for a variable to change?

I have a wireless button. When pressed, it sends a signal to tasker (variable %Tap1_Action) I want to start a code when I press the button. How do I do this? I tried

Variable set - Name: %Tap1_Action To: startCode

then Wait: 5 seconds (waiting for the press in these 5 seconds) And then starting the code with If %Tap1_Action ~ startCode that somehow worked, but when I then tried to clear the variable later in the code (Variable Clear %Tap1_Action) and then doing that again, it immidiately set the variable to what i wanted to without me clicking on the button.

Solution

You can let a profile simply watch the variable %Tap1_Action~startCode. And if clearing does not work you might alter the %Tap1_Action variable as well as your profile only triggers a task when the variable exactly matches "startCode"