@russ My outputs are slightly different (nothing mentioned about running in background) but an uninstall/reinstall of the daemon seems to have been enough to do the trick. I am now able to trigger commands remotely and everything I added to commands.json are showing on the website. Thanks so much!!

I have run through all the steps to get triggercmd on my Raspberry Pi 3 b+ with the intention of starting it at bootup and have it running in the background to use Alexa voice commands to shutdown, but when I run triggercmdagent in terminal, it shows "Daemon install: false" and when using the command /usr/share/triggercmdagent/app/src/installdaemon.sh it says "Daemon install: true"

Despite my retropie showing up in computer management list, it only has one trigger: Gnome Editor. If I use nano ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json it shows 5 different triggers.

Alexa is not doing anything when I use the command "Alexa shutdown retropie"

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not too savvy on Linux, so I'm relying on a lot of "how-to" posts.