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@legtod2, if you want to use the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Alexa skill to turn on and turn off galculator, I'd recommend using the offCommand field like this:

{"trigger":"Open Calculator","command":"/home/pi/open_galc.sh","offCommand": "/home/pi/close_galc.sh","ground":"foreground","voice":"calculator","allowParams": "true"},

Notice I set "allowParams": "true" which is necessary to use offCommand, but because you're using offCommand, your /home/pi/open_galc.sh command won't receive the on parameter.

Alternatively you could use one shell script that expects the on or off parameter like I did here.

@legtod2, I remember your fruitbox jukebox project. It's a cool idea. I might end up dedicating one of my own Pi's to that use-case.

You're apparently using the TRIGGERcmd or TRIGGER command skill. Both of those skills allow you to specify text that Alexa will say and display after the command runs.
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You can set that text for the command in the GUI editor:
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In my commands.json it looks like this:

"voiceReply": "Also try, \"Alexa, next song.\"",

BTW, for "Alexa, next song" to work, you'd need to create an Alexa Routine to run the next song command when you say that.

@russ Very cool suggestion. Send the equivalent to pressing a local keyboard keypress.