Randomly open application

[AwayShift]

I would like to know how to create a command to randomize and open selected applications, example: I have a command to open some steam games, but individually, I wanted to give a command, the games that I selected one of them would be opened at random.

[Russ]

@AwayShift, you can use a .bat file like this to randomly run one of 5 games.

set /a num=%random% %%5 +1
goto %num%

:1
echo Running game 1
goto end

:2
echo Running game 2
goto end

:3
echo Running game 3
goto end

:4
echo Running game 4
goto end

:5
echo Running game 5
goto end

:end

[AwayShift]

It worked as I expected, thank you very much. Another question would it be possible for alexa to speak the game she is opening? if there is no way, no problem, it helped me a lot!

[Russ]

@AwayShift, yes, you can have Alexa (or Google Assistant) say the name of the game if you use one of the original skills - the ones called TRIGGERcmd or TRIGGER command. In general I like the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill better, but it cannot speak the "result" of a command.

Make each game's section in the .bat file like this:

:1
echo Running Call of Duty
%USERPROFILE%\.TRIGGERcmdData\sendresult.bat "Call of Duty"
goto end

Set your command's "Voice Reply" field to something like this: Running {{result}}

Trigger the command via the TRIGGERcmd or TRIGGER command skill like this: "Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run game."

The skill will reply with, "Running Call of Duty".

[AwayShift]

@Russ Perfect, it worked just fine, thank you very much for your help!