What's the difference between background and foreground commands?
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The background agent adds, removes, and runs background commands only.
The foreground agent adds, removes, and runs foregound commands only.On Windows, background commands run in the context of the Background Service, so they run as the Local System account by default. The background commands can't display things on your screen, but because they run as the Local System account they have full access to your PC, so they can do things like reboot or stop/start other services. Also, the service starts when you boot your PC, so you don't have to be logged in for the background commands to run. Background commands won't even show up on the triggercmd.com site until you install the background service.
On Linux it works similarly, but background commands run as root, in the context of the triggercmdagent systemd daemon after installing it with the installdaemon.sh script.
Background commands don't work on Macs at this point because I haven't written a background service/daemon for Macs yet.
Russell VanderMey
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For the macOS application, I had set the trigger to run as background, without reading this first. It caused the trigger to not show up in the web interface until I set it to foreground.
Would it be possible to remove the background option for the macOS app to avoid confusing people?
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@mnpg, that's a good idea. I'll add that to my todo list and try to do it soon.
EDIT 1/5/2019: It's done in the latest version of the mac agent as of today. Now on a mac you can only select Foreground when you add commands.
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@MNPG hello could give an example of command how to open app and website on mac
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hello could you give an example command to turn off my Imac and tried this "shutdown / s / t 2" in foreground and it doesn't work.
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@Sergio-Gryciuk, I actually recently added Shutdown and a few other Mac examples to GUI Editor's example list. Here it is too:
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Muchas gracias Russ, eres un genio el comando de apagar mi mac funciono perfectamente.
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Awesome @Sergio-Gryciuk, you're welcome.
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I have a question because i cant difference or i dont see the difference about it.
i have two comands, foreground and background one. Both make same (on windows 10) i have a shutdown /s /t 10 and both make same. Maybe this is only for Mac os users usefull?
But basically i cant run apps (native apps), like notepad.exe (foreground of course, but any of two works for me)
I tell on spanish Alexa, open (or run, or nothing, only /notepad/ or /noutpad/ both spechs works) notepad. And it sounds like the comand its suscesfully done but nothnig appears on screen.
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@Kingnabis, you're saying you can not run notepad, correct?
I recommend that you try using the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Alexa skill. It recognizes your voice commands better because it has a list of what you might say ahead of time, so Alexa only has to match up what you say with something in that list.
Is your notepad command setup like this?
When you click the View Runs button,
do you get a Command ran entry in your list?
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Yes, mine was like yours but i was jumping the COMAND part. I need to add START previously to notepad... I udapted like this and it works. I have to write it on cmd, if works there works from the skill.
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Hi, any solution to run background commands in mac os?
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@Adrián-González-Camacho, not yet. I didn't think many Mac users would want to use it. Do you want this feature so you can run commands while you're not logged on? Just curious what your use-case is.
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@Russ I want to use my mac as a server and launch home automation commands
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@adriangcamacho, I see. I assume you don't want to leave it logged in?
I'll have to research again how to create services that startup at boot time on a Mac.
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@Russ Yep, thank you a lot for your time.
If you need some help i think i could help you i'm backend developer. -
I'd also like to use my mac as an automation server and it would be easier to not have to be logged in permanently. Thanks @Russ !
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@TuneyLunes, I haven't built this into the Mac agent yet, so for now you can use this method to setup the background agent on a Mac.
