@Hannibal said in Error while installing the triggercmdagent:

Notice: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/hannibal/downloads/triggercmdagent_1.0.1_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

Copy/paste that into ChatGPT to know why, but you can safely ignore that "Notice". Basically it means the _apt user doesn't have access to your user's home directory where the .deb file is, so it's using root to access it instead.

It looks like the agent is installed now, so you can move on to the next step:

node /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/agent.js --console

It should prompt you for a token which you can copy/paste from the Instructions page while logged in at https://www.triggercmd.com

I use CMDNOWND for this. https://dennisbabkin.com/cmdnownd/

You pop it in the cmd line like this: cmdnownd "D:\Libraries\Documents\batchfile.bat" and it suppresses the appearance of the cmd window. Just place the exe in your path. I keep it in the Windows folder itself.
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@mega_big, on a Raspberry Pi, assuming you installed the agent using these instructions, your commands are in this file:

/root/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json

You'll see the default commands in there.

You can run these commands to edit it:

sudo su - cd /root/.TRIGGERcmdData nano commands.json

While the agent is running, it will detect changes in that commands.json file and create/remove triggers for those commands in your TRIGGERcmd account. If you mess up the json at all (an extra comma even), the agent will restore the last backup it took. You'll see that in your debug.log.

If you don't want to deal with editing text, you could create a command on your Windows PC using the "GUI Command Editor" then copy/paste the json text of that command from the "Text Command Editor" into your commands.json file.

@jcksnftsn, awesome.

@Al-S, do the new commands have a voice word? That's required for the skill to create devices.

@Al-S, great. Glad that was it.

@Russ ty!!

Russ, is there any other information that you need or anything else that I can do or provide to help determine what to do to get my commands.json commands into TRIGGER.cmd on my RasPi Zero W?

@hogkite, you're welcome.

I just updated the Mac agent too.

@riccardo-cereser, please try adding this to your script:

SCRIPTDIR=$(dirname "$0") cd $SCRIPTDIR

That way you can specify the full path to your script in the commands.json file, and when your script runs, it will cd to the directory where your script is.

It all worked out! Thank you very much Russ, you helped me a lot.@russ

@dean-mcnaughton, nice. Good job getting it working.

@zed-master, if you can install nodejs on it, you should be able to run the agent.js with a command like this:

node agent.js --console

You can find the agent code at https://github.com/rvmey/TRIGGERcmdAgent

@steve-porter yep that will mess things up. I remember reading another post about that so that isn't something that you alone have experienced. I found a couple times the file didn't update for me for different errors in command lines.
I've gotten into the habit of double checking if it saves.

@Andy-Kutruff, try this one. I just pushed it:

docker pull rvmey/triggercmdagent:arm

You'll need to create an actual computer record in your account and get the ID for it from your browser's address bar after you click view triggers.

Very cool. Thanks @Sébastien-Pineau. I'll let you know if I get this working.