Posts made by Russ

@Hannibal said in Error while installing the triggercmdagent:

Notice: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/hannibal/downloads/triggercmdagent_1.0.1_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

Copy/paste that into ChatGPT to know why, but you can safely ignore that "Notice". Basically it means the _apt user doesn't have access to your user's home directory where the .deb file is, so it's using root to access it instead.

It looks like the agent is installed now, so you can move on to the next step:

node /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/agent.js --console

It should prompt you for a token which you can copy/paste from the Instructions page while logged in at https://www.triggercmd.com

@Hannibal, thank you for reporting it! I tested it and ran into the same problem at first, but it's fixed now. Please download it again and try the install again.

@Matthew-Mason, it's a good use case that I should not disable, so I'm glad you caught it.

@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.

@Alisson-Teixeira, I translated that as:

"I would like to know if it's possible to turn off the monitor and the computer at the same time with just one command? In the free version? With the example command, the monitor enters power saving mode, but doesn't turn off completely...

Question for Windows please"

You can run multiple commands in one command by putting && between commands, like this:

nircmd.exe monitor off && shutdown /s /t 10

I created a separate app for triggering commands called TRIGGERcmd Misson Control.

Now you can use it to generate commands using AI - checkout this video.

@Guilherme-Matos, I tried it. When I ran the TRIGGERcmd Agent in the other user account on my computer, the token prompt did show up, but I had to click the agent's icon at the bottom of the screen because it was behind my browser. I had to bring it to the front.

If you don't get an icon at the bottom, let me know, and please tell me whether you're using the latest version. I'm running version 1.0.56 which I'm about to release. I added an emoji icon picker for commands.

Download and add this to your Claude skills to list and run commands from Claude:

TRIGGERcmdSKILL.md

@Rodney-Mathee, I'm glad you told me it's wifi, not wired ethernet. That changes things. For one, that WakeMeOnLan.exe tool from Nirsoft won't work because it doesn't support wireless networks.

I've never tried "wake-on-wlan" but in theory it's possible with the right hardware.
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/core/explanation/system-snaps/network-manager/how-to-guides/configure-the-snap/wake-on-wlan/