Multiple Users (Revised)
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I just read my first post and was not impressed. First, I am a new user to this forum. Second I have been using triggercmd for almost a year now. My wife wants to be able use the system as well. We tried today she said "Hey Google...Wax Off") and Google came back with "you do not have an account with triggercmd" or something similar. Can I configure Google Home/triggercmd to allow both of us to use voice commands to run stuff? As an aside, I use triggercmd to run 27 events throughout my house via X10. Wax On and Wax Off are two commands used to turn on and off her Wax Sensie warmers. Nice command. Thank you Karate Kid!
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Hi @Byron-Trantham. Yes, this is actually why I created the share feature.
Your wife will need her own TRIGGERcmd account, and you'll need to share your computer with her account by clicking the computer's yellow "Share" button, and entering her account email address.
Then after she accepts your computer, it will show up in her account under "Other user's computers" and she'll be able to run that computer's commands.
Please let me know if that solves it.
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Russ thanks for the reply and the good news. Would it be too much trouble ask for help/guidance with the requirements? She does not have a computer just a Samsung 10+ smart phone. Where do I go to sign her up? I know, you are probably rolling your eyes......
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@Byron-Trantham, no problem - have her click the green New User button on the login screen at triggercmd.com. She can use her browser on her smart phone to create the account. Her account doesn't need any computers attached - she can use the one you share with her.
After you share your computer, have her test running a command on your computer from the triggercmd.com website. Once that works, have her link her Google account to her TRIGGERcmd account in the Google "Home" app.
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I am not sure that I am out of the woods but I now have an icon on her phone for triggercmd. Click it and it automatically shows the trigger list. I tried a command and it worked!! I tried another one and it says she needs to subscribe to execute another command within one minute. If she needs to pay, no problem. Last question, I hope. How do we get her account linked Google Home?
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@Byron-Trantham, yes, sorry, her account will have that 1 command per minute limit, even for running your computer's commands, unless she subscribes.
Linking her Google account to her TRIGGERcmd account for Google Home is just like when you did it for yours. She needs to be logged into the Home app as her, then find the TRIGGERcmd action or the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home action to link to her TRIGGERcmd account.
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I know this all seems really elementary considering what you have accomplished with this app but I loose sight of where I am and where I need to be. Your latest instruction worked. She's on the bloody phone right now so I have to wait to see if her voice commands work. Does she need all the "routines" on HER phone for the voice commands to work? I have 27 routines on mine where I created them. Have a Happy New Year!!
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Well it didn't work - exactly. When she says the command Google Home comes back and says "ok getting triggercmd". Then Google home says "Say something like, run Calculator on Office PC." The command was "Wax Off". I double checked to see if she is in fact shared with the laptop and she is. This routine is on her Phone's Google Home App. Any guess?
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@Byron-Trantham, you could make sure your computer is her default computer in her profile (upper-right in her triggercmd account).
Also, you're using the normal TRIGGERcmd google action. I recommend you try the new one: https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/579/new-triggercmd-smart-home-google-assistant-action
It lets you say, "wax off," or "turn off wax" if your trigger's voice name is is "wax", and the PC is your default PC.
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Russ it works! Thanks so much for your help. My wife is sight impaired and we "discovered" Google Home last Christmas. Then I found out about Triggercmd. I spent weeks trying to get to work with X10. Got it going. I have three basic voice commands, device on, device off and dim device. So for every X10 device I have, I created a minimum of two and max of three batch files. What a chore. NOW I have to go back and rename probably everything to something meaningful to her. Wax ON and Wax Off was her idea way back when. They operate her Sensi candle warmers [that smell up the house :-)]. After getting the laptop as her default, I had her try yet again - bingo it worked. I don't think diamonds would have made her any happier. I have a ton of editing to do to make my, on the fly command names, something meaningful to her.
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@Byron-Trantham, sorry about the extra work but I'm glad you have a solution now.
