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!