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    • RussR
      Russ @Sergio Gryciuk
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      Awesome @Sergio-Gryciuk, you're welcome.

      Russell VanderMey

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      • K
        Kingnabis
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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.
        Whats my issue?

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        • RussR
          Russ @Kingnabis
          last edited by Russ

          @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?
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          When you click the View Runs button,
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          do you get a Command ran entry in your list?
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          Russell VanderMey

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          • K
            Kingnabis
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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. asdge.PNG

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            • K
              Kingnabis
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              • adriangcamachoA
                adriangcamacho
                last edited by adriangcamacho

                Hi, any solution to run background commands in mac os?

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                • RussR
                  Russ @adriangcamacho
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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.

                  Russell VanderMey

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                  • adriangcamachoA
                    adriangcamacho @Russ
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                    @Russ I want to use my mac as a server and launch home automation commands

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                    • RussR
                      Russ @adriangcamacho
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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.

                      Russell VanderMey

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                      • adriangcamachoA
                        adriangcamacho @Russ
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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.

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                        • TuneyLunesT
                          TuneyLunes
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                          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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                          • RussR
                            Russ @TuneyLunes
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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.

                            Russell VanderMey

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                            • Alê 滝口A
                              Alê 滝口 @Russ
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                              @Russ Could you give me an example of a command to run a script?

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                              • RussR
                                Russ @Alê 滝口
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                                @Alê-滝口, if the computer is running Mac or Linux, the command could be:

                                ~/yourscript.sh
                                

                                That assumes you've created a script in your home directory called yourscript.sh.

                                If the computer is running Windows, the command could be:

                                c:\scripts\yourscript.bat
                                

                                That assumes you created a c:\scripts folder, and put yourscript.bat in it.

                                Russell VanderMey

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                                • Alê 滝口A
                                  Alê 滝口 @Russ
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                                  @Russ thank you !!!

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