<![CDATA[Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa]]>Good Evening, and Sorry for the repeating topic.
I am trying to control Pi-Hole on my Pi with Alexa Echo device. I have installed Triggercmd ( subscribed to it, to use commands more often.)on Windows 10 laptop . Can I enter a command (pihole_on_off.sh)that allows me to run the script on my Pi without installing triggercmd on Pi.
Sorry again I am quite new in scripting.
Thanks.
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]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/2108/controlling-pi-hole-on-the-raspberry-pi-remotely-through-alexaRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 01:34:15 GMTSat, 16 Apr 2022 21:33:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa on Sun, 29 May 2022 12:44:01 GMT]]>@russ I added the password to pi-hole and generated the token from web API. New URL that appeared with that token has been added to the TriggerCMD. However, this still doesn't resolve the problem, I am receiving the same message with empty token. Can anyone help with the issue? Where to dig further? Thanks

]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5908https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5908Sun, 29 May 2022 12:44:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa on Fri, 27 May 2022 18:21:13 GMT]]>@russ Thank you for the advice. I tried this command:
http://192.168.8.102/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=
(auth parameter doesn't have any hashed value as I don't have a password setup for Pihole)
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It works just fine if I type it manually in the browser. When I add it to the CMD GUI window command, when I run it with the start command, it shows me the message:
Empty token! Check if cookies are enabled on your system.
All cookies are enabled in the browser. What could be the issue?
Maybe this will help you- when I run the command, it appears in the browser without the last bit 335e47c7-655a-4fc3-84d4-421b473c7e44-image.png
I don't know, maybe I am doing something wrong as I am quite new in this field.

]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5907https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5907Fri, 27 May 2022 18:21:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa on Sat, 21 May 2022 21:00:10 GMT]]>@georgi_sharkov, you could use Chrome, press F12, find the request under the network tab, then copy the "Copy all as cURL (cmd)" option.

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That will give you the curl command, but if there's authentication in the request, it will likely expire after some time.

]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5884https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5884Sat, 21 May 2022 21:00:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa on Sat, 21 May 2022 19:15:13 GMT]]>@russ Thank you for the reply and apologies for the late reply from my side. Is it possible to run a curl command in the triggercmd that will be able to deactivate or activate the PiHole?PiHole is installed on the Pi4 and it is accessible through a browser with an internal IP address like 192.168.8.102 from my PC. What will be the command to insert in the triggercmd command line in this case?

]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5882https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5882Sat, 21 May 2022 19:15:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Controlling Pi-Hole on the Raspberry Pi remotely through Alexa on Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:21:23 GMT]]>@georgi_sharkov, yes, you can use ssh to run commands on your Raspberry Pi from your Windows 10 PC without installing a triggercmd agent on the Raspberry Pi.

Install the OpenSSH client in Windows 10 by opening an elevated command prompt (right-click cmd and run as administrator) and running this command:

dism /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:OpenSSH.Client

Then to generate a public/private key pair, run this from a normal cmd prompt, run this and press enter a few times.

ssh-keygen

You'll end up with a .ssh folder with an id_rsa file and an id_rsa.pub file. The id_rsa is your private key, so keep that private. The id_rsa.pub file contains text you need to copy into the authorized_keys file on your Raspberry Pi so you can ssh into the Pi without a password.

Log into your Raspberry Pi as the pi user, or which ever user you use:

ssh pi@garagepi

At this point you'll still need to enter your password.

Once logged in, edit your pi user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, and append the contents of the id_rsa.pub file to the end of that authorized_keys file. If it's empty that's fine. Just paste the contents in and save it.

Now logout, and run this command again:

ssh pi@raspberrypi

If it logs in without a password, you're golden. Now you can run remote commands on the Raspberry Pi like this:

ssh pi@raspberrypi ls

In that case I ran the ls command on the Pi from my Windows box, but you could run any command including a script that enables or disables Pi Hole. For example your Command and Off Command could be these:

ssh pi@raspberrypi ~/pi_hole_on.sh
ssh pi@raspberrypi ~/pi_hole_off.sh
]]>https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5720https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/post/5720Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:21:23 GMT