@Micael-Sousa, good to know. I'm glad you figured this out.

@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'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

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

TRIGGERcmd Mission Control (demo video)

• https://github.com/rvmey/triggercmd-mission-control/releases/

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

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

Mobile apps:

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

Progressive Web App (PWA)

• https://app.triggercmd.com

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.

AI methods:

• ChatGPT app (Youtube demo video)
• Claude skill
• OpenClaw skill.
• Local stdio MCP - Run commands from local AI LLM chat tools like Claude Desktop or VS Code. Use the "MCP Tool Description" field of each command to tell the LLM what the command does, and how to use the parameters.
• Online Streamable HTTP MCP - Same as above but for online AI tools like Mistral AI.

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. (Not working as of 6/21/2025)
• 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 - Connect the agent directly to a Homekit hub for offline local runs.

Other cool methods:

• 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.
• n8n community node - Run your commands from n8n AI workflows.
• 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.
• iOS shortcut - Use the iOS Shortcuts app to run your commands with Siri.
• 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.
• viaSocket - Run commands from your viaSocket flow.

@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.

@Waldex-Santos, I think this should work:

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

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.

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.

@Matthew-Mason, thank you for reporting this.

I was trying to avoid a loop that one user created, so I disabled the Alexa smart home "doorbell" press when the trigger source was an Alexa Smart Home device trigger.

It was intentional, but in hindsight it was the wrong way to fix it so I reverted the change. It should work now.

I'll find a better way to avoid the loop.

@Christopher-Foote, sorry about the issue. I'm not sure what happened, but I enabled your subscription.

@Sreehari-J, I see your subscription in Paypal. Do you want me to cancel it?

@zedsyd4-EZ, great, I'm glad that worked.

@zedsyd4-EZ, sorry no. The system is built to understand subscribed, or not subscribed, and subscribed means multiple PC's and multiple commands per minute.

@zedsyd4-EZ please try putting a space between each character in your password (like in my example).

@zedsyd4-EZ, I'd use nircmd.exe for that.

For example, this would type "hello world":

nircmd.exe sendkeypress h e l l o spc w o r l d

You can download it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

https://chatgpt.com/apps/triggercmd/asdk_app_694c84d39cb881918c6d181ae69e33fc

In case you want a command that sends some text to a screen, I created this project:

https://github.com/rvmey/esp32-s3-ssh-wled

Example command:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 admin@<device-ip> 'landscape; color white; textcolor blue; fontsize 8; text Hello\nWorld!'

The result:

Go here to flash it:
https://rvmey.github.io/esp32-s3-ssh-wled/

Here are some store listings to get the hardware:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256810472549403.html
https://www.amazon.com/DIYmalls-Capacitive-Touchscreen-JC3248W535C-ESP32-S3-WROOM-1/dp/B0DGXRZ58V

EDIT 4/7/2026:
I made a new version of the firmware that I can control as a TRIGGERcmd computer.

EDIT 6/6/2026:
I've since switched to this device: https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/core2_for_aws
Now it has an mp3 player, and I can tell it to show a picture of a cat, or tell it to play a specific mp3 like this:

@Yoni, thank you for reporting this.

Please try again. It should work now.