Sorry @iamisobe. Stay with me. We'll get this.

First of all - you have send the "magic packet" from a computer that's turned on. My Raspberry Pi computer is always turned on - that's why I run the wakeonlan command from it.

Do you have two computers? One that's always on, and one that your want to wake up? Assuming you have two computers, what's the Operating System of the one you want to use to tell the other computer to wake up?

@robhaynes, a good place to look for what Alexa heard is the Alexa app on your phone.

I see in the log that Alexa often hears xten, and sometimes she hears x. I think x10 / xten is difficult for Alexa to hear and convert to text consistently.

@russ
Got it. Looks like you already set that up for me .. as I could see my laptop on the default computer field .. and it is working ! Thank you!

P.S: Is there a location on this forum or site for "How-to's" / Knowledge base - for people to find such information there .. if yes, please direct me to the same, if not, might be a good idea to create one 🙂

@buddahs808 ,

The trick is to use a simple word for google to hear in the 'voice' field for the command.

Does 'calculator' work?

@cameronlives ,

I'll try opening a website when I get home. I think you can do something like this:

open http://www.google.com

@ron

Man, I don't know. If calc and notepad work, the agent is working, so that's a start. What exactly do you have in your command field? If you type that same thing in your cmd prompt while you're in a different folder, does it run the batch file? I ask just to verify that the folder is in the PATH..

It might be that batch file is expecting you to be in the folder where the batch file is, so you could add a command to your batch file to cd to that folder.

EDIT: Ron and I figured this out. It turned out he needed to close and open the TRIGGERcmd agent (or just reboot) after he added the batch file's folder to his PATH.

Ron also explained how ahcmd works. It can send commands to X10 devices. It's a simpler way to do it than @Nate-Hales (aka Bubba's) method that uses the curl command. The ahcmd.exe tool comes with this installer: http://voxcommando.com/files/ahsdk_install.exe

FYI, Ron's command to turn on a lamp via X10 was:

ahcmd sendrf e1 on

So with SmartThings, he could turn on parameters and make the command:

ahcmd sendrf e1

And SmartThings would add the on or off part of the command.

More info about ahcmd: http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Plugin_X10

Thank you @mallea ! Merry Christmas!

@dlaugh14, your example is way cooler than mine.

@rexabbot, no, but if you want to run foreground commands that launch GUI application like a browser, you can open a terminal window within X-Windows, and run triggercmdagent. That will run the agent in foreground mode.

Unfortunately you won't be able to use the GUI editor though, so you'll have to edit the commands.json file manually with vi or pico.

@Joost-Breggeman said in Command script not working - Raspberry?:

{"trigger":"Hello World","command":"sudo /home/pi/tmp/test.sh","ground":"foreground","voice":"update","allowParams": "false"}

nevermind... found it. there should be an absolute path to the text file in the script

@bzowk ,

That should have worked. Background commands are elevated commands by default because they run in the context of the Windows service that runs as Local System.

I have a background command called "Restart Print Spooler" that runs:

sc stop spooler & sc start spooler

I just tested it on my Win10 box and it worked. I have UAC turned on though, so maybe that's the difference.

EDIT 7/4/21:
Check out this solution too: https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/1453/questions/2

Now there's a better way to run the agent on a 32bit version of Windows:

https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/99/no-gui-triggercmd-agent-that-works-on-32bit-windows

Now there's a better way to run the agent on 32bit Windows.

https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/99/no-gui-triggercmd-agent-that-works-on-32bit-windows

@kingdavid52, thank you for telling me I had this issue.

I found that the Ubuntu installation instructions didn't work unless you were in X-Windows.

I updated the instructions here.

I don't want Ubuntu users to have to install the X-Windows GUI, so again, thank your for pointing this out!

Awesome @Brandon, nice job.

@Neflhiem, I'm glad you got it working. I like how it turned out too. Thanks again for your questions - I wouldn't have thought to implement this if you hadn't asked.

@Russ thanks

Also, the server I'm using this on hid the task bar icons, so it was a little while before I realized there was a place to right-click and pull up a GUI editor =P. The directions on your website are not incorrect.