I guess I figured out how to edit the triggers but I still not able to create working command I want to start a program on my computer but am unclear on where to put the program name to get it to run. Is there anywhere to find a tutorial on how to build new triggers?

@jorgee, have you tried deleting your c:\users\(your user)\.TRIGGERcmdData folder? If you do that, then close and re-open TRIGGERcmd, it might fix it.

Another possibility is your Antivirus software is blocking it. You could try turning that off temporarily while TRIGGERcmd runs for the first time.

@russ /usr/local/bin/wakeonlan was the ticket.
Thanks so much for the info, able to make my PCs from my Mac from a full power off now!

@atmosphere, I'm sorry but right now the TRIGGERcmd installer only supports one TRIGGERcmd account per Raspberry Pi.

But, theoretically you could maybe run two instances of the TRIGGERcmd agent on the Pi, as two separate Linux users, and give those two users sudo access if they need to run things as root.

If you run triggercmdagent --console it will run in foreground mode like so, and store two separate commands.json files in the .TRIGGERcmdData subfolder of their respective home folders:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ triggercmdagent --console Run installdaemon.sh to install the triggercmdagent daemon so it runs during boot Daemon install: false No token exists. Login to request one. prompt: token:

The trick would be in getting the two agents to run after a reboot.

Thanks @jdeuel.

@karl-g, please uninstall and download again. I removed version 1.0.20 and put 1.0.19 back until I can figure out why people are getting that error.

@kaiontour, unfortunately I only have so much control over what Alexa will recognize, which is why I gave the user the flexibility in that voice field to pick something that Alexa will recognize. You could try "restart kodi" instead of "kodi restart" if that works better.

Thank you,

@gutopa, I've been thinking about your question and how I'd implement a solution. Please look here for what I'm thinking.

@russ Thanks I'm away for a week or more, I'll have a crack when I get back.

@pnick,

For some reason I ran into the same problem when I said, "Alexa, tell Trigger CMD to open movies". Alexa identified "movies" as the name of a computer for some reason.

This phrase worked better: "Alexa, ask Trigger CMD to run movies"

I'll see if I can "train" Alexa to understand the previous phrase better.

EDIT: I see I never implemented "to open" with Alexa. I'll look into adding that, but you can only use these for now:

to run to trigger run trigger

EDIT 2: There's something strange about how Alexa handles the word movies, so I'd avoid using it as a voice trigger for your command. I've been trying to tell Alexa to recognize movies as a command and she just won't.

@nathan7, if you delete your commands.json file, it will replace it with the original.

The only way I know how to do it is via SmartThings.

Alexa routine -> SmartThings -> TRIGGERcmd -> computer

@wadeal, the point of the voice property of your computer is to specify something you can say to Alexa that makes it easy for her to recognize. So I recommend something simple in your computer's voice field like, "movies"

Alexa/Google Assistant/Cortana don't use the computer's name field, they use the voice field to find your computer.

Click the blue Edit button for your computer on the website to get to that voice trigger field.

Just to clarify:

Bat file:

nircmd setdefaultsounddevice "VG248" 1
nircmd.exe setsysvolume 35000
PlayAlarmVBS.vbs

vbs file:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Comandline = "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe"
WScript.sleep 500
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("linktoplaylist")
WScript.sleep 3000
WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
WScript.sleep 100
WshShell.SendKeys "^{RIGHT}"

@meyerdenney, I use an Alexa "Routine" to open my garage with "Alexa, open sesame", but it depends on my SmartThings system. That works because routines work with Smart Home systems.

Otherwise, I don't know of a way to do that with Alexa. I wish Alexa had something like Google Assistant's "routines" (they used to be called "shortcuts").

@russ So I had to put in the IP address directly...the codes wouldnt accept the localhost command. Any idea why? Thanks