@barry-hamilton, @Ricale-Kincheski, @k8nr, @marcelo-muller, @Moacir-Vilela-Sêga, thank you for reporting the problem. I do see I had a problem in the logs. I'm looking into it now.

@mark-hollis, thanks. I thought I had it fixed this morning and found out just recently it went down again. Working on it again now.

@rancor, awesome. Thank you.

@russ well, honestly this shouldn't be my problem. This shouldn't be customers problems. TriggerCMD should find a better subscription platform. I wasn't sure if I'd renew my subscription and now I am 100% sure I won't.

@sebastian-rodriguez Not all programs support command line parameters. TriggerCMD can't magically make them accept them.

@tuicemen said in Account administration:

If you mean your wishing to contact the software developer @Russ without joining a forum then that is something he can address.

Right. I'm a member of the AutoHotkey staff, and for those cases, we've added a Forum section that is accessible for guests to sort out registration issues...

https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5008

Not necessary if a dedicated eMail address is available "just in case". 🙂

It's kinda astonishing/irritating if you've used the same login credentials within the system of a vendor, where the web-based portal responds that your login is corrupt while the exact same login for the web-based product works fine. SSO?
IMHO something that has to be mentioned in the FAQ, or be displayed during a "forgotten password"-request.
Thx for listening.

Bo

@russ

Before I read your reply, I changed it to "Abre netflix en mi ordenador" and it kinda worked out. I still have to add the word "apaga" before that setence on the voice command so Alexa recognise it.

I tried your way with "Alexa, encender netflix" and now Alexa tells me that the voice command is "Alexa, activa encender netflix"

For some reason, there's always a word before my voice command that I cannot delete or change. At first it was "apaga", now is "activa" 😕

With AutoHotkey you can try to trigger your Spotify Web? Desktop? client using ACC...
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26201&hilit=acc.ahk

or UIAutomation...
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=104999

or COM (quite similar to what you've done already but triggering the elements directly instead of a generic ^{Up}), or...

Nah, don't do that.

I've used ACC to skip songs from an already executed playlist within a Spotify browser session once they are "blacklisted".

Your command would like like this...
"<path to>\AutoHotkey.exe" "<path to>\myScript.ahk" "1stParam" "2ndParam" "nthParam"

HTH

BTW, for a more reliable approach, you can restrict sending "hotkeys" to specific (non-/active) windows.

JFTR...
The above-linked "German" page contains the in-depth instruction/tutorial (shouldn't be a problem for Google-Translate/deepL), while the "English"-linked one is providing the code for download.

Would have edited the page above but there's a "editing time restriction" of 3600s 👎 . Wouldn't it make more sense that a page can't be edited anymore once a follow-up posting/reply occured?

@mark-hollis, last night I finally found the root cause and I'll be working on fixing it today. Basically, AWS has been throttling my server when it gets too busy. That's why it's intermittently slow. I'm going to upgrade to a different type of server today.

EDIT: It's done now - AWS won't throttle the server anymore. Thanks again for reporting the problem. If you see slowness again, please let me know, but I think I got it this time.

@aaaaa12345, this is a method you could use TRIGGERcmd to say something any time.

Alexa routines can execute commands by flipping the TRIGGERcmd virtual switches that the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill creates for each command, but routines can also execute commands using the original TRIGGERcmd skill using the "custom" action like this:
alexa routine

The routine will run a command using the original TRIGGERcmd skill, which allows you to use the Voice Reply field with the {{result}} placeholder that you fill using the SendResult.bat script.

So if you have a long running script and you want Alexa to say something about the result, you could write your result message to a file somewhere, then trigger the Alexa routine by running a tcmd command that runs the routine by tiggering the TRIGGERcmd command you've tied to the Alexa routine. The routine would run another TRIGGERcmd command that uses the SendResult.bat script to say your message via the {{result}} placeholder in the Voice Reply field.

It's complicated because it uses all these ingredients:

TRIGGERcmd Alexa skill (the old original skill) to run a command and hear the result. An Alexa Routine with a custom action has Alexa say "Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run result" to itself. TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Alexa skill to run the Alexa routine when you trigger a command. The tcmd command to run the command that triggers the Alexa Routine.

I had another case where I couldn't use TRIGGERcmd because the purpose was to have my Echo next to my bed tell me if the TRIGGERcmd site is down. I used https://voicemonkey.io with IFTTT for that. It worked great. I have montastic.com call this endpoint which tells Alexa to have my Echo Dot speak "Trigger CMD is down"

https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Montastic/with/key/(my IFTTT key)?value1=Trigger%20CMD%20is%20down

My IFTTT applet looks like this:
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@aaaaa12345, I wonder if you're using the original non-Smart Home skill. If so I'm not surprised it would often miss what you're saying.

I created this "NBC" command and I'm able to say, "Alexa, turn on NBC" and it works every time.

It uses the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill. The TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Google Action works every time too.

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@aaaaa12345, if I add a 3rd version of the non-Smart Home skill, I think I'll see if TC is available.

I'm curious, why are you using the old TRIGGERcmd and Trigger Command skills? Is it for the voice reply capability?

I generally encourage people to use the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill because it matches your words to your command triggers much better. I also think "turn on calculator" is easier to say than "ask trigger command to run calculator."

Also, fyi, Google is discontinuing conversational actions (Google calls it an action instead of a skill). So after June 13, 2023, I expect the Google version of the TRIGGERcmd and Trigger Command actions to go away, and you'll have to use the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home action.

@joão-vitor-zanotto, thanks. I'll test that myself. I don't know why that would break it, but I'm glad it's working.

@josé-david-cabañales-ramírez, sorry no, I'm only setup with Paypal at this point.

...but unfortunately, Amazon has set up restrictions:

"Response length – The combined total time for the entire audio response generated from the components cannot be more than 240 seconds."

BUT...

"Our API throttling limits will allow up to 30 calls within a 60 second window…anything above that will block subsequent requests for the next 15 minutes."

So, no creating a music box isn't really doable - a text reader/TTS no problem!

@mikeh_iver After you installed the software on the other PC, copy the commands.json file from the "C:\Users*username*.TRIGGERcmdData" to the it.

@Five, you should be able to use Bixby to flip any switch in your SmartThings devices. You can use these instructions to add your TRIGGERcmd commands as virtual SmartThings switches.