@philip-nguyen, there's a similar question here.

These are the high level steps:

1. Create 2 commands that just run echo (doesn't matter what), and name them PlugOn and PlugOff.
2. Setup two Alexa routines - one that turns on your smart plug when the PlugOn command runs, and other that turns it off when the PlugOff command runs.
3. Create a script. At the beginning of the script, do the following:
4. Set variable called PLUG_IS_ON with a default value of true.
5. To make sure the plug is on at first, run the tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugon -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
6. Create a loop that repeats every minute. Inside the loop, do the following:
7. Check your battery level with BatteryInfoView.exe
8. When the level is below 30 percent and PLUG_IS_ON = false, run tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugon -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
9. When the level is above 99 percent and PLUG_IS_ON = true, run tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugoff -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
10. Also set PLUG_IS_ON to true when you run plugon, and set it to false when you run plugoff

I think that should work. Do you know how to do that? Let me know if you get stuck, and where you get stuck. I can look at your script if you paste it here.

You can use this web page of course, but don't stop there. Check out this list of ways to run your commands on your computers.

The Smart Home version of the Alexa skill and Google Assistant action does the best job of matching your spoken words to your commands.

Smart Home voice assistant skills (Example: "Alexa, turn on calculator") <--Recommended

• "TRIGGERcmd Smart Home" Alexa skill
• "TRIGGERcmd Smart Home" Google Assistant action

Original "conversational" voice assistant skills (Example: "Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run calculator"):

• Original Alexa skill
• Original Google Assistant action (deprecated)

Progressive Web App (PWA)

• https://app.triggercmd.com

Mobile apps:

• Apple App Store: TRIGGERcmd
• Google Play Store: TRIGGERcmd (supports widgets)
• Amazon App Store: TRIGGERcmd

Run your commands when things happen in other Internet services:

• Zapier - create a "Zap" that runs your command when something happens on one of their 1500+ supported apps.
• Make - create "scenarios" that run commands on your computers.
• IFTTT - If This Then run a command, or if a TRIGGERcmd command runs, run an IFTTT applet.
• Microsoft Power Automate (aka Flow) - run commands when things happen in Office 365 and other services.
• Pipedream - build workflows that run your commands.

IoT Smart Home hubs:

• Home Assistant - Flip virtual HA switches to run your TRIGGERcmd commands.
• Samsung SmartThings - Create virtual switches for each command, then flip the switches to run them.
• Homey - Use the ‘run command’ flow action.
• Hubitat - Trigger a command like you'd flip a switch.
• Node-RED - Run commands using an "http request".
• HomeKit - Use the homebridge-http-switch plugin with a bookmark URL.

Other cool stuff:

• iOS shortcut - Use the iOS Shortcuts app to run your commands with Siri.
• Run an Alexa routine - when one of your TRIGGERcmd commands runs.
• Google Assistant routine (aka automation) - use one of your TRIGGERcmd commands as a "starter" to run your routine when the command runs, or run one of your commands as a routine's "action." Either way, you must use the google automations script editor, not the Home app.
• Bookmarks - Create and share URL's that run your commands without authentication. You can set an optional timeout to make bookmark URL's expire. People can also scan your bookmark's QR code to run the command.
• Paywall URL's - Similar to bookmark URL's, you can also charge people via Paypal to run your commands.
• REST API - Use curl or other client to call the TRIGGERcmd API.
• tcmd - Command line tool written in Go.
• Tasker - Tasker is an Android app for automating things with your phone.
• Slack app - Run your commands with Slack "slash" commands.
• Powershell - Run a command on a computer across the Internet from your powershell script.
• Roku channel - Run a command from your Roku.
• Unity - Run a command from a Unity game or utility you made.
• Streamdeck - Configure a Streamdeck button to run a command on a remote computer.
• Python - Run a command on a remote computer from a python script.

You'll need to install this on your Windows box to make it work: https://autohotkey.com

This is my media.ahk autohotkey script:

Gosub, %1%
return

next:
Send {Media_Next}
return

previous:
Send {Media_Prev}
return

pause:
Send {Media_Play_Pause}
return

play:
Send {Media_Play_Pause}
return

stop:
Send {Media_Stop}
return

volup:
Send {Volume_Up}
return

voldown:
Send {Volume_Down}
return

mute:
Send {Volume_Mute}
return

These are the corresponding commands.json entries:

{"trigger":"Mute","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk mute","ground":"foreground","voice":"mute"},
{"trigger":"Volume Up","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk volup","ground":"foreground","voice":"volume up"},
{"trigger":"Volume Down","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk voldown","ground":"foreground","voice":"volume down"},
{"trigger":"Media Next","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk next","ground":"foreground","voice":"next"},
{"trigger":"Media Stop","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk stop","ground":"foreground","voice":"stop"},
{"trigger":"Media Previous","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk previous","ground":"foreground","voice":"previous"},
{"trigger":"Media Play Pause","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk pause","ground":"foreground","voice":"pause"},

NOTE: You don't need a Play and a Pause because they do the same thing - they just toggle between play and pause.

This is optional, but I'm also using my Raspberry Pi based IR receiver to trigger the above commands with a VCR remote.

I have these entries in my /etc/lirc/lircrc file on the Pi:

  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_1
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh play downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_2
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh notepad downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_PLAY
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Play Pause" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_PAUSE
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Play Pause" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_RIGHT
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Next" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_LEFT
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Previous" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_STOP
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Stop" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_UP
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Volume Up" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_DOWN
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Volume Down" downstairs
  end
  begin
       prog = irexec
       button = KEY_MUTE
       config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Mute" downstairs
  end

@Ruan-Santana, I added two pages to the documentation this morning:

https://docs.triggercmd.com/#/./API/TriggerCommand
https://docs.triggercmd.com/#/./API/ListCommands

Is that what you're looking for?

@tim-s, that's right - you could even just change the trigger name and change it back, and it would invalidate the bookmark URL.

It's back up now.

One of my servers went down last night, and Kubernetes didn't handle the fail-over well.

I got an email from my monitoring system while I was sleeping. I'll need to setup something else that will actually wake me up.

I'm sorry about this outage.

This works in Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi. You can list and control your SmartThings devices with the Samsung SmartThings cli (command line interface) tool.

https://github.com/SmartThingsCommunity/smartthings-cli#smartthings-devicescommands-id-command

smartthings.exe devices
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 #   Label                        Name                            Type   Device Id
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 1   Front Door                   base-contact                    ZWAVE  5bebe423-f899-486e-9f62-8c63707a9b6c
 2   Front Lights                 switch1                         DTH    fb132245-8bd0-478d-be4b-ca311ae64656
 3   Home Hub                     SmartThings v2 Hub              HUB    9079eb4d-10b4-435d-9a05-b2b9629cb50a
 4   Motion Sensor                Motion Sensor                   DTH    b8a3a1ab-daac-44fb-a6c9-53bac4382df9
 5   Notepad                      Notepad                         DTH    a83bbda3-d461-44ae-948a-7d8fd13b5799
 6   Samsung 7 Series (40)        [TV] Samsung 7 Series (40)      OCF    01253b2b-71ed-4b74-b7dd-74dd94522d96
 7   THERMOSTAT                   Honeywell TCC 6000 Thermostat   VIPER  86b567ac-0da3-4257-9b03-47a3cfc3b469
 8   Kitchen Switch               Z-Wave Switch                   DTH    e2237460-e3fa-4bf5-8a24-3e6d64f89352

To turn on my Kitchen z-wave switch, I can run a command like this:

smartthings.exe devices:commands e2237460-e3fa-4bf5-8a24-3e6d64f89352 switch:on

SmartThings devices can be controlled with the SmartThings app of course, but this might be useful in scripts - whether you run them remotely via TRIGGERcmd or not.

@Waldex-Santos, I think this should work:

osascript -e 'delay 60' -e 'tell app "System Events" to shut down'

Some of you might have noticed, when you'd say something like:

Alexa, ask TRIGGER cmd to run notepad on downstairs

You'd get an answer like this:

"Could not find a command with voice word cmd notepad on downstairs, ..."

I fixed that today.

For some reason Alexa started sending the "cmd" part of "TRIGGER cmd" as a prefix in the command name. I actually had to add code to strip that out.

This Youtube video shows the setup process.

Or, as of 2023, follow these steps:

• Open the Home app
• Tap the Settings tab
• Tap Google Assistant
• Tap Manage all Assistant settings
• Tap Home control
• Search for TRIGGERcmd
• Select TRIGGERcmd Smart Home
• Select Continue
• Login to your TRIGGERcmd account.
• Select Allow

Now test it by saying, "Hey Google, turn on Calculator."

For screenshots, see this post.

@tigor, great. I'm glad it's working.

@gajahduduk, thank you for testing it.

What MacOS version do you have? I suspect it's v15 (aka Sequoia) because they've made it a little harder to run apps like this.

Fortunately you can work around it with these steps:

1. Try to run TRIGGERcmdAgent, and click Cancel.
2. Open Security and Privacy in Settings.
3. Scroll down and click Open Anyway next to TRIGGERcmdAgent.

@tigor, I cut my command down to just this, and tested.

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. Alexa stopped listening right after she spoke that short sentence.

@davidcook, let's focus on making commands sync with your Raspberry Pi first.

Did you use these instructions when you setup your Raspberry Pi?

If you install the background service with this command:

/usr/share/triggercmdagent/app/src/installdaemon.sh

... it runs as root, and reads /root/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json, and it will only sync your background commands (ground = background) not foreground commands.

If you're editing your /home/pi/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json that could be the problem.

Please show me the output of this command: systemctl status triggercmdagent
I'd like to confirm it's running.

Also, do you see the your Raspberry Pi listed on your "Your Computers" page? If not, maybe it didn't create a computer because you're not subscribed. You can only have one computer if you're not subscribed.

@tigor, How long is your sentence?

I tested this command with the conversational skills (TC, TRIGGERcmd, and Trigger Command) and it said all 56 of these sentences:

Here's my command if you want to test it yourself:

%USERPROFILE%\.TRIGGERcmdData\sendresult.bat "This is a lot of words 1. This is a lot of words 2. This is a lot of words 3. This is a lot of words 4. This is a lot of words 5. This is a lot of words 6. This is a lot of words 7. This is a lot of words 8. This is a lot of words 9. This is a lot of words 10. This is a lot of words 11. This is a lot of words 12. This is a lot of words 13. This is a lot of words 14. This is a lot of words 15. This is a lot of words 16. This is a lot of words 17. This is a lot of words 18. This is a lot of words 19. This is a lot of words 20. This is a lot of words 21. This is a lot of words 22. This is a lot of words 23. This is a lot of words 24. This is a lot of words 25. This is a lot of words 26. This is a lot of words 27. This is a lot of words 28. This is a lot of words 29. This is a lot of words 30. This is a lot of words 31. This is a lot of words 32. This is a lot of words 33. This is a lot of words 34. This is a lot of words 35. This is a lot of words 36. This is a lot of words 37. This is a lot of words 38. This is a lot of words 39. This is a lot of words 40. This is a lot of words 41. This is a lot of words 42. This is a lot of words 43. This is a lot of words 44. This is a lot of words 45. This is a lot of words 46. This is a lot of words 47. This is a lot of words 48. This is a lot of words 49. This is a lot of words 50. This is a lot of words 51. This is a lot of words 52. This is a lot of words 53. This is a lot of words 54. This is a lot of words 55. This is a lot of words 56."

Do you see your whole sentence in the Runs list for your command?

@Gustavo-Rios, you can't run any commands on a computer that's suspended because it's not connected to the Internet.

You might be able to wake it up from a separate computer on your network though.

Thanks @tigor

@tigor, thank you for reporting this. I was able to reproduce the issue.

I fixed it just now. Please try again.

@jett, no there's no lag - the changes should show up immediately. I think you're running the foreground agent, so make sure your commands are foreground commands. They'll disapear if you make them background commands and you're not running the background agent.

Thanks for telling me about the Google Sign-in button not working on that phone. I just tried it on mine and it worked. I'll research that phone, but in the meantime, did you get it logged in using one of the other methods like a password or a pair code?

@Al-S, great. Glad that was it.