• Home Assistent direct support. No need for Internet - the agent talks to HA over the LAN if you configure it to.
• When the Pi boots, it will audibly tell you the pair code if you plug in headphones to the Pi's headphone jack.
  • Just plug it into your ethernet, boot the Pi, and listen for the code,
  • Log into your account, click your name, click Pair, then type the pair code.
  • This avoids having to connect a monitor or ssh in, to read /root/paircode.
• Creates a panel in your account called "IR Remote" that you can control using an infrared remote control.
  • Unlike the Orange Pi Zero 2 in this article, you'll need to plug in the IR receiver that comes with the IR remote.
  • You can also use the Blue Dot app via Bluetooth. The image includes a command called Pair Bluetooth that will give you 1 minute to pair your cell phone.
  • You associate each panel button with a command, then you can run those commands using the physical infrared remote control buttons.
• Creates a "Configure Wireless" command to configure a series of wifi networks in priority order. You run the command with the Parameters button and specify your wifi network SSID's and passwords like this: network1,password1,network2,password2,network3,password3
• Creates two "Garage Door" commands to control two relays you can connect to the Raspberry Pi.
• Creates commands to control a colored LED strip like in this bike project.
• You can plug in a physical button to toggle the LED strip on or off.
• During boot the LED's will turn:
  • Red to indicate the Raspberry Pi is booted.
  • Blue to indicate it has Internet access.
  • Green to indicate it is talking to the TRIGGERcmd API (after you pair it with your account).

It should show up on your LAN as triggercmd-rpi.

The default password for the "pi" user is "triggercmd" but you should change it.

You can use the official Raspberry Pi Imager to write this image to your MicroSD card. Just select "Use custom" and select the image file:

LED strip:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0888HYCJN

Dual relay board:
https://www.amazon.com/SunFounder-Channel-Optocoupler-Expansion-Raspberry/dp/B00E0NTPP4

IR Receiver:
https://www.amazon.com/VS1838B-Universal-Infrared-Receiver-Starter/dp/B087ZRD3LH

IR Remote Control with IR Receiver and wires:
https://www.amazon.com/Infrared-Control-Receiver-Raspberry-arduino/dp/B0981DBCY9

The Orange Pi has an infrared sensor so I use this IR remote control to run up to 21 different commands - one command per button. I don't recommend you associate your garage door with one of those buttons though. IR is not secure - it's just infrared light, and anyone can buy a remote like this for around $3:

I bought a few of these Orange Pi Zero 2's for about $30 each, and I noticed they had these IR receivers built into the expansion boards they came with. You can see it in the middle of this photo on the top board:

This is the Orange Pi image file:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G4JnV3VLcLFa76tf-zO2t0jC9h9o4YlW

You can write it out to your microSD card with belanaEtcher or the Raspberry Pi imager tool.

I took the the official Orange Pi Ubuntu image for the Zero 2 hardware from this page, installed the TRIGGERcmd agent on it. I also installed a script that runs on boot that shows you a TRIGGERcmd pair code on the hdmi console to pair it with your TRIGGERcmd account. You can also get the pair code from /root/paircode by ssh'ing to it, but you'll need to know the IP, or you could try the dns name which will be tcmd-orangepizero2 if it works. Both the orangepi and root have orangepi as the password. You should change that. I'll probably add a command to change that via a built-in TRIGGERcmd command in the next version of this image file.

You'll need to pair your Orange Pi with the Pair button under your name in the upper-right.

It will create a computer in your account with a few built-in commands, like the commands to control 2 relays on a relay board like this.

It will also create an "IR Remote" panel in your account with a virtual panel button for each physical button on the remote.

You'll just need to associate those virtual buttons with the commands in your account that you want them to run. I've been running Calculator a lot, but I intend to associate things like my basement lights via an Alexa routine etc.

To connect the Orange Pi to Wifi you'll need to plug it into ethernet first and ssh in, or use the console if you have a micro HDMI adapter and keyboard to set it up using the console. Run orangepi-config to setup wifi. The Orange Pi comes with a nice wifi antenna. You can see the antenna wire in the photo above.

I like that these remotes are so cheap.

Here a couple Amazon posts selling them:

I'll probably do a Raspberry Pi image too if people are interested. I figured the Orange Pi image might be more useful at the moment because it's hard to get the Raspberry Pi's right now. Notice those remotes come with an IR receiver, which you'll need if you use a Raspberry Pi.

If you want to wire up a relay board, this is how to connect the pins:

EDIT 11/13/2022:
This is the commands.json file from my laptop running Winamp in the Youtube video:

[
 {
  "trigger": "Reboot in 10 seconds",
  "command": "shutdown /r /t 10",
  "ground": "background",
  "voice": "reboot"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Calculator",
  "command": "calc",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "calculator"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Notepad",
  "command": "notepad",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "notepad"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Volume up",
  "command": "nircmd changesysvolume 6000",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Volume down",
  "command": "nircmd changesysvolume -6000",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Play/Pause",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress c",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Previous song",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress z",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Next song",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress b",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "MilkDrop",
  "command": "c:\\tools\\milkdrop.bat",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Milkdrop Title",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress t",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Fast forward",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress shift+right",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Rewind",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress shift+left",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Winamp",
  "command": "\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Winamp\\winamp.exe\"",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Previous Milkdrop preset",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress backspace",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Pause Milkdrop preset rotation",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress scroll",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Next Milkdrop Preset",
  "command": "nircmd sendkeypress h",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },
 {
  "trigger": "Lights color rotate",
  "command": "c:\\tools\\color_rotate.bat",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "",
  "voiceReply": "",
  "allowParams": "false"
 }
]

Here's my c:\tools\milkdrop.bat file on that laptop:

tcmd -c russtv -t winamp
ping 127.0.0.1
start /B nircmd win activate stitle "Winamp 5"
ping 127.0.0.1
nircmd sendkeypress x
ping 127.0.0.1
nircmd sendkeypress ctrl+k
nircmd sendkeypress alt+s

Heres my c:\tools\color_rotate.bat script:

set /p lastcolor=< c:\tools\lastcolor.txt
echo Last color was %lastcolor%

goto %lastcolor% else END

:red
echo blue > c:\tools\lastcolor.txt
tcmd -c ds -t ar_lights_blue
goto END

:blue
echo green > c:\tools\lastcolor.txt
tcmd -c ds -t ar_lights_green
goto END

:green
echo red > c:\tools\lastcolor.txt
tcmd -c ds -t ar_lights_red
goto END

:END

Has anyone tried it?

curl http://ADDRESS/api/HomeAutomation.HomeGenie.Automation/Programs.Run/NUM

Simply change the ADDRESS to your HG IP & Port and change NUM to the HG program number you wish to run.

I just tested this creating a simple macro using the record macro function (bottom right under actions) in HG.
This turned a light on then of then armed my security system then turned another different light on then of to indicate the security system was armed. Every thing was triggered!

#Libraries

import requests
import os
url = "https://www.duckdns.org/update?domains=YOURDOMAIN&token=YOURTOKEN"
result = requests.get(url)
if result.text == "OK":
 os.system ('~/.TRIGGERcmdData/sendresult.sh ' + result.text)
else:
 os.system ('~/.TRIGGERcmdData/sendresult.sh ' + 'Broken')
# Print to commandline
print (result.text)

replace "YOURDOMAIN" with the one you created and replace "YOURTOKEN" with what DuckDNS asigns you.

I added this line to my commands.json text

{"trigger":"Duck D N S","command":"python3 /home/pi/scripts/Ducks.py","ground":"background","voice":"Duck D N S","voiceReply":"The Duck D N S conection is {{result}}","allowParams": "false"}

to

if you wish the return to send a Fahrenheit value instead of Celsius you can add the line

just after the line

This Youtube video shows it working: https://youtu.be/IYHZDfvMqgA
This Github repo has the code I used: https://github.com/rvmey/bike-pi
LED strip: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BKQ6KCK <- I used 30 LED's, but if you use the full 300 LED strip, change this line in the fancy.py script to 300 to get the rainbow effect throughout all 300 leds.

num_pixels = 300

This shows the Raspberry Pi with the button and the 300 LED strip connected.

Each of the 8 relays has 3 contacts. Use the two contacts closest to the end with the yellow jumper. That way the circuit is usually open.
The other end of those wires connect to the garage door openers, where you'd connect a button.

As far as I'm concerned, this is not an active issue for me anymore because I installed it a different way; I should have followed up to let you know. Thank you for looking into it and responding though!

Are you seeing the commands you created in commands.json on the website?