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Russ

@davboc , your email address for TRIGGERcmd does not have to match your Paypal address. It can match, but it does not have to match - either way works.

Also if you want to change your TRIGGERcmd account's email address, you could just create a new account. To re-register your agent with your new account, just delete your token.tkn file, then Quit and re-open the TRIGGERcmd agent.

The token.tkn file is in C:\Users(your user).TRIGGERcmdData on Windows, or ~/.TRIGGERcmdData on Linux and Mac.

I'm glad you like the service! Tell your friends!

@Russ sorry for my misunderstanding, now all it's clear.

I payed the subscription fee but my account is still a free account... What can I do?

Russ

@davboc , please check again - I manually changed your account to subscribed. I see there was an error reading your email address. You might have found a bug. If so, thank you - I'll fix it right away.

EDIT: You did find a bug (oops). I fixed it.

@Russ great work, I have a premium account now!

Last question, I'm trying to install triggercmd on a raspberry pi following your guide, works fine but I can't add a command (or modify one of the list), every change at the commands.json file disappears when I reopen the file. I tried to stop the triggercmdagent then modify the commands.json, but when I start the triggercmdagent all changes are lost.

Russ

@davboc , I think I might know what's wrong. If you have a comma at the end of your commands.json file, it will revert it to the previous commands.json. In otherwords, it detects the problem and restores the backup.

I've made that mistake a few times myself - if you copy a line and forget to remove that last comma, it's bad json format. You could past your json into this tool to check it: https://jsonlint.com/

Here's my commands.json file from my Raspberry Pi. Notice the last line doesn't have a comma at the end.

[
{"trigger":"Reboot","command":"shutdown -r","ground":"background","voice":"reboot"},
{"trigger":"Russ Garage Door","command":"/root/russdoor.sh","ground":"background","voice":"russ"},
{"trigger":"Betsy Garage Door","command":"/root/betsydoor.sh","ground":"background","voice":"betsy"},
{"trigger":"apt update","command":"apt-get -y update","ground":"background","voice":"update"},
{"trigger":"boot russfam","command":"wakeonlan c0:7c:d1:a1:89:f8","ground":"background","voice":"boot"}
]

@Russ yes you're absolutely right, comma was the problem. However now I can modify the file, but I still can't see created triggers on the website and I can't execute the trigger that I've added...

Russ

@davboc,

Did you install the background service? On a Raspberry Pi you'd generally only use the background service.

Also use "ground":"background" instead of "ground":"foreground".

You can install the background service with this command:
/usr/share/triggercmdagent/app/src/installdaemon.sh

Also, here's a troubleshooting tip for Linux/Raspberry Pi. If you run this, you'll see the latest output from the agent running as a background service (aka daemon):

systemctl status triggercmdagent -l

@Russ yes I installed the service as explained in your guide, I tried both foreground and background but I still can't see my triggers, and of the default triggers I can only see "gnome editor" that is the only in foreground...

Thanks again for your patience

Russ

@davboc , I'm happy to help. Thank you for your patience. We'll get this.

I wonder if your Raspberry Pi is connected to your old account, if you created a new one today?

Or maybe the background service isn't running now. You could check that with this command:

systemctl status triggercmdagent

You could try getting a fresh start like this:

Delete your Raspberry Pi computer record from your account here.
Delete your ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/token.tkn file.
Run: triggercmdagent (runs agent in foreground)
Paste in your token from the Instructions page.
CTRL-C out of the foreground agent.
systemctl restart triggercmdagent
systemctl status triggercmdagent
Check to see if the background commands were added.

Please IM me your computer name - that might help me troubleshoot.

@Russ after that fresh start all works well. Thank you so much, I really appreciate your work

Russ

You're welcome @davboc. Thanks again for finding that Paypal bug.