@russ Thanks for the explanation. I was messing with it and i did get it working. although i didnt sue the pub key soooo i dont know why its working. Maybe since i copied my private key over to the remote pi , that allowed it to work?

i did notice that when i was root, and ran "ssh pi@ipaddress /test.sh" it asked me to "fingerprint" the remote pi , which i said yes.

The script started workign via triggercmd , after that, but i also edited the authorized_keys on the remote pi again (with nano). the remote pi had another key in there and i just mirrored the syntax.

so at this point its working, maybe i needed to fingerprint the remote pi ? maybe i just fixed the authorized keys file? either way thanks for your help!

ok i already have an ssh key, since when running the command , it asks me if i wanted to overwrite, so for now i said no. and i went to that file /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and copied it to the remote /home/pi/.ssh/authorized_keys. I couldnt get it work,

But i dont think i copied it over correctly. Should i generate a new one, or use the old one? will this break other things i have if i overide and genreate a new one?

either case what is the simplest or correct way to append the keys to the authorized keys file? since i think my copy over screwed it up.

Also id_rsa in my root folder doesnt have a .pub on the end... is that fine?

@Russ yes, my intention is to ssh into a remote pi , from triggercmd running on my "main pi" and have it execute a script or command.

And I was trying to figure exactly what you said out on my own ,since I had a similar issue you helped me with. I was thinking the same but didn't know exactly what I needed to do but makes logical sense, now that you explain it. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!

Re: trigger ssh command on raspberry pi

I have trigger command running on a raspberrry pi4 and trying to execute a script on another rasperry pi but it doesnt work. i can remote it to the other pi without a password using pi as the username. but using triggercmd the same command doesnt work. Do i need to copy authorized keys on the remote pi to another directory?

@Russ Awesome... that fixed it! Of note i did have to do it this way
sudo cp /home/pi/.ssh/id_rsa /root/.ssh/id_rsa -f since i was getting errors , but once i did that i ran a sudo more /root/.ssh/id_rsa and compared to the pi id_rssa , and saw they were identical now , then ran triggercommand from voice and it all worked. I did even add it to google home as a routine so i can just say "ok google update my movies" and it all works!!! much much appreciated. Thank you! do you have a donations page? i just see the subscription, and would like to show my appreciation -Justin

I am trying to execute a ssh command and it doesnt seem to be running using the below.

{"trigger":"Plex Movie Update","command":"ssh -p 5001 user@10.0.0.90 /movies3.sh","ground":"background","voice":"Plex Movie Update","allowParams": "false"},

if i just run
"ssh -p 5001 user@10.0.0.90 /movies3.sh " on my raspberry pi , it will run. I have enabled passwordless ssh

how do it see if the command is running on my voice trigger and what the error is stopping it from running?