@Marcus-Mortensen Hello!

I too have been frustrated in the past trying to cancel stuff in PayPal. Maybe you were already on this page, but just in case not I figured I'd share this URL:

PayPal automatic payments management

It's irritating to track down in PayPal sometimes but this lets you manage who is preauthorized for subscription payments. If you delete something in here, even if the vendor ignores your request to cancel and attempts to bill, it shouldn't go through for them. I italicize that because it's just in theory - I haven't had a problem vendor yet requiring me to test this but once you revoke authorization it should work.

Just wanted to share that page for future reference. Sorry if you already found that and this is just useless info.

Hello!

Went to bed last night and realized I left my encrypted drive mounted. Grumbled, got up, turned on monitors, dismounted. Then it hit me when I was back in bed; why not make a dismount trigger so I can have Alexa do it for me? Yay, laziness FTW lol.

So I just remembered that so I went to implement. I have TC running on my domain controller downstairs but the drive in question is up in my main rig. My encryption software has no remote listening capability so I was going to use psexec but I haven't had great luck with that. So my next thought was make a C# Windows service with a socket server and then serialize a JSON payload and shoot it to the service and it can deserialize that and get the drive info to dismount from the payload and do it.

Then I said wait wait wait nerd; why not just install TC agent on the rig?? Much easier lol. So I did that and created a new trigger:

Trigger: dismount drive
Command: wscript.exe c:\misc\xd.vbs
Off Command: wscript.exe c:\misc\xd.vbs
Ground: foreground
Voice: dismount drive
Voice/MCP Reply: Drive dismounted
MCP Tool Description: (not set)
Allow Parameters: true
Quote Parameters: false
Icon: (not set)

When I saved, 5 seconds later my phone beeps with a notification from Alexa that a new smart home device was discovered. Cool. But then I realized the verbiage will be weird saying to turn on or off a verb so I changed the name to just "drive" and again, I get the alert saying device discovered. So I say "Alexa, turn off drive". I had turned on parms and set the cmd both as on and off because to dismount a drive it felt weird saying turn ON drive lol. But no dice.

So I tried just c:\misc\xd.vbs since VBS can be launched directly. The only reason I did wscript first was habit from batch files anyway. Still no love. So I made xd.bat which is just:

@echo off
echo Hi! >c:\misc\debug.log

Again, no love. Then I realized it has 0 for the run counts so it isn't registering at all. Alexa did detect "drive" though? So my question (if you're still with me after this novel lol) is

1. Is there any issue having TC agent running on two machines? I would 99.999999999% be sure not since the interface supports showing multiple.
2. Did renaming it perhaps break something? Can't imagine why though
3. Any other things you can think of that may be at issue?

Thanks a lot!

@racoon1211 If it helps, just so you know, I'm an IT systems engineer working for a major municipal government. I'm not affiliated with Russell or his company in any way whatsoever.

Being an IT nerd, I was also very wary about running software from a small company. I did a lot of testing of his software when I first adopted it and I can attest that it is safe. I've been using it for four years and no issues at all.

Just wanted to chime in as an unrelated third party

EDIT: Oops, I didn't even realize this post was from 2020 lol. Sorry for necroposting.

Hi!

I'm having an annoying issue. I made a system I call HomeCenter which lets me manage smart home / home automation stuff. One of the functions is tracking laundry cycles, so when I start a load I press a button and a DB record gets entered then all the HomeCenter clients poll it every few minutes and if the time logged + duration for the cycle selected has passed, it plays an alarm. It's very loud and obnoxious so I don't miss it, lol. I wanted to be able to tell it to shut up though without using one of the HomeCenter PCs or tablets, because this morning I laid back down to snooze a bit and the alarm went off. It was a drying load, so it didn't matter if I went and handled it immediately so I just wanted HC to shut the hell up so I could sleep but as I didn't have my phone I had to get up and go to the kitchen to close out the alarm.

So I decided I need to write a batch file that will delete the record from the DB via an Alexa voice command. So I fired up my TriggerCMD GUI editor and added a new record:

Trigger: laundrydone
Command: c:\misc\laundrydone.bat
Off command: N/A
Ground: foreground
Voice: laundrydone
Voice Reply: N/A
Allow Parameters: false

I then made the batch:

@echo off
sql homecenter "delete from activeitems where action = 8192" /u service.triggercmd.homecenter /p (pwd) /h lioth.mydomain.com /l laundryreset.log

I opened the HomeCenter page and clicked Laundry, Started Wash Cycle - Clothes. I then fired up SQLyog and checked:

SELECT * FROM activeitems;

ID: 09d10a5d-ddb9-4eae-9e3e-17f6e6416cad
action: 8192
dtstarted: 2025-08-10 10:37:29
flags: 0
startedby: fe5303f8-0716-42cb-ade3-0a6023be87d9

Cool. So I said Alexa, turn on laundrydone. She said OK. I do SELECT again, and I still see my row. So I open command and go to c:\misc and run laundryreset.bat. Do another SELECT and now there are no results. So the batch file works. Next I clicked start load again to obtain data then went to the TriggerCMD GUI editor, found laundrydone and clicked the play button. SELECT'd and I still have data. I do a very similar thing for my health tracking database. I can say "Alexa, turn on diet Pepsi" and it will use loghealth.bat to add that to my daily food log (I'm diabetic so I watch what I eat carefully). So I compared the two since TC has no issue with loghealth:

C:\Misc>cacls loghealth.bat
C:\Misc\loghealth.bat NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
                      BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
                      BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
                      MYDOMAIN\strahan:(ID)F


C:\Misc>cacls laundryreset.bat
C:\Misc\laundryreset.bat NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
                         BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
                         BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
                         MYDOMAIN\strahan:(ID)F

Well, that looks fine. So I tried modifying the batch file:

@echo off
echo WTF is wrong with you>log.txt
sql homecenter "delete from activeitems where action = 8192" /u service.triggercmd.homecenter /p (pwd) /h lioth.mydomain.com /l laundryreset.log

Hit the play button in TC GUI, log.txt never appeared. What should I check next?

Hi. Ever since IFTTT and Alexa stopped working, I started making a bunch of TriggerCMD triggers to fill in the void. I made a website to log health data (calories eaten, exercise done, etc). So I made a batch file:

@echo off
echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 >>log.txt
if "%1"=="med" goto :medication
if "%1"=="bedtime" goto :bed
c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=food&food=%1"
goto :eof

:medication
if "%2"=="fi8" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=8"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi10" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=10"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi12" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=12"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi14" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=14"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi18" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=18"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="li50" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=long&amt=50"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="night" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=nightmeds"&goto :eof

c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=meds&mid=%2&units=%3"
goto :eof

:bed
echo %2 >>log.txt

I have a bunch of commands. Here is a sample:

Trigger: diet pepsi
Command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat dpepsi12
Off command: (greyed out)
Ground: foreground
Voice: diet pepsi
Voice reply: (empty)
Allow parameters: false

This works great. I say "Alexa, turn on diet pepsi" then check my health site and it has logged a can of Diet Pepsi. I also track my bedtime/getting up times so if I feel drug out I can look at my health site and be like well yea, I slept 5 hours 12 minutes no doubt heh. I wanted to leverage the on/off ability, figuring I'd say "Alexa turn on bedtime" to mark myself asleep and turn off to mark awake:

Trigger: bedtime
Command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat bedtime on
Off command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat bedtime off
Ground: foreground
Voice: bedtime
Voice reply: (empty)
Allow parameters: true

However, neither on nor off works. I added the echo to log.txt lines and I never even get a log.txt, so it's not firing the batch at all.

Any idea why? Thanks!

Hi. I used TriggerCMD a couple years ago but my need for the functionality was abated so I stopped using it. I now have need again, so I installed the agent. Plugged in my token it said I need to resubscribe. So I went to the site's control panel and I can't find anywhere that one does this.

Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Thanks. Only outbound? That's curious. So when I use my IFTTT webhook trigger with Alexa to turn my bedroom fan on, it doesn't send a packet to my agent from your system to let it know to activate?

Thanks!

PS: The reason I have to rebuild the machine is it was compromised. I implemented IP filters on my firewall so only my cellphone and family systems can access my server. The communications from your service; is there an IP range I can use to whitelist it?

Hi. I need to reformat the machine I have TRIGGERcmd installed in. Where does it save its settings so I can back it up? I'd rather not have to recreate all the triggers. Thanks.

This is a bit late, lol, but thanks. Got that all working now so I can be in bed and say "alexa, trigger windy 15" and have my fan turn on for fifteen minutes only. So nice Used to be I could turn it on with Alexa but it would run until I turn it off, so I'd fall asleep and wake up frozen hehe.

Thanks!

Hi. I want to be able to lie in bed and say "alexa, trigger fan 15" and have it run a batch that will turn the fan in the bedroom off in fifteen minutes. But just to start simple, I made a batch file that just plays a WAV file so I can test the connectivity. Installed TriggerCMD agent on my pc named "Zaranth". As that's a mouthful and i was afraid Alexa may interpret the weird word oddly, I set voice trigger for that PC to game as it's my gaming rig. I created a command "noisy" that runs \misc\triggercmd\noise.bat. If I hit the green "trigger" button for that command when viewing the list of triggers, it works perfectly.

So I said "alexa, ask trigger c m d to run noisy on game" (figured I'd make sure it worked native before throwing IFTTT into the mix). No dice. It won't see it, said it cannot find that command. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMJyKXx1zQ

Thanks. The generic usage method looks fine. I wouldn't think that a movie or whatever specific parameter would really be necessary; the people creating their commands will know what kind of input to expect and will handle it accordingly.

I guess for now I'll just make "codewords" that do specific functions, heh. That'll work for now. Thanks again!

Hi! I just bought an Echo tonight, and the deciding factor was that I could control my PC when I Googled and saw your program. I've been playing with it, it's cool. However, I have one snag. I wanted to be able to launch videos from it, so I created a trigger "Die Hard", command was the path and filename of the video, voice was "die hard". I pronounced it as clearly as I could but it keeps saying "cannot find command die". Does it not support multiple word voice commands? I changed it to "die" and it worked.

Also I was trying to find documentation on parameters and failing. Can you direct me? I'm wondering if I can create a command that is generic then pass parameters that I assume I say after the trigger word to launch the appropriate title. I just can't find any docs on how parameters work.

I setup a trigger "video", with command "p:\utils\scripts\triggercmd.php video", voice "video" allow parameters true. My PHP script looks for parameter "diehard". I said "alexa, ask trigger c m d to run video diehard" and it said "could not find a command with voice word video hard on (pcname)". Am I misinterpreting how to use parameters?