Feature request: Leave off computer name when issuing an Alexa command

Christian Robinson

@Russ Unfortunately it's not working. I can still do "Alexa, tell TRIGGER c m d [command] on Windows," and it works fine, but if I leave the "on Windows" part off Alexa always says "Could not find a trigger called undefined on [...]"

Edit: Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I have a different name and voice trigger name for my Windows machine? For Alexa I just call it "Windows" but in my profile it's called "Arrietty". I had to set the default name in my profile to "Arrietty" or Alexa would tell me it could not find the device.

Russ

Yes, that's it. You have to give it the computer name, not your voice trigger name.

I think other people will do the same, so I'll try to make that clearer in the interface.

Although it said your trigger is undefined, so I'm still confused.

Christian Robinson

@Russ Unfortunately it just doesn't work either way. Giving it the voice name gives an overall error (can't find the device, or something like that), but giving it the computer name always gives the "Could not find a trigger called undefined on Arrietty" error.

Russ

I have a theory. You have two of the same command. I think you got those when the agent still had that bug. Can you rename that command in your commands.json and see if the problem goes away?

Christian Robinson

@Russ Unfortunately I still get the "undefined" response. Also, duplicates still appear on me occasionally--when I notice it I use the rename trick to clear them, but didn't see that one.

Russ

Ok. I appreciate your patience. I'll try to reproduce these two problems. I thought I fixed the duplicate commands problem in v1.0.5 of the Windows agent.

Are you saying the word, "run" before your trigger's voice word?

Russ

I reproduced it!

I said, Alexa, tell trigger c m d, Calculator.

Alexa said, cannot find a trigger called "undefined" on RussFam.

Sweet. I can fix this.

Christian Robinson

@Russ No, I wasn't saying "run," but when I do it works.

Russ

@Christian-Robinson

Awesome. Thanks for showing me another bug. I'll do an update to the Alexa skill to allow a single word to represent the trigger's voice word to run on your default computer.

Christian Robinson

@Russ No problem. I'm happy to help, especially since this is such a cool skill. Thank you for your efforts.

Russ

@Christian-Robinson Amazon approved my update to the skill, so now you can say, "Alexa, tell trigger c m d, Calculator."

@russ
Is this feature "default computer" made available for all the users now ? How can I enable/get it for my profile .. please advise ..

Russ

@venkat-karthik, you just do this:

Take a note of your computer name in you list of computers.
Click your name in the upper right corner of the web interface while logged in.
Write or paste the computer name (not its voice word) in the default computer field.

Then you can leave the computer name off when you tell Alexa to run your command.

@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