Hi!

I'm having an annoying issue. I made a system I call HomeCenter which lets me manage smart home / home automation stuff. One of the functions is tracking laundry cycles, so when I start a load I press a button and a DB record gets entered then all the HomeCenter clients poll it every few minutes and if the time logged + duration for the cycle selected has passed, it plays an alarm. It's very loud and obnoxious so I don't miss it, lol. I wanted to be able to tell it to shut up though without using one of the HomeCenter PCs or tablets, because this morning I laid back down to snooze a bit and the alarm went off. It was a drying load, so it didn't matter if I went and handled it immediately so I just wanted HC to shut the hell up so I could sleep but as I didn't have my phone I had to get up and go to the kitchen to close out the alarm.

So I decided I need to write a batch file that will delete the record from the DB via an Alexa voice command. So I fired up my TriggerCMD GUI editor and added a new record:

Trigger: laundrydone
Command: c:\misc\laundrydone.bat
Off command: N/A
Ground: foreground
Voice: laundrydone
Voice Reply: N/A
Allow Parameters: false

I then made the batch:

@echo off
sql homecenter "delete from activeitems where action = 8192" /u service.triggercmd.homecenter /p (pwd) /h lioth.mydomain.com /l laundryreset.log

I opened the HomeCenter page and clicked Laundry, Started Wash Cycle - Clothes. I then fired up SQLyog and checked:

SELECT * FROM activeitems;

ID: 09d10a5d-ddb9-4eae-9e3e-17f6e6416cad
action: 8192
dtstarted: 2025-08-10 10:37:29
flags: 0
startedby: fe5303f8-0716-42cb-ade3-0a6023be87d9

Cool. So I said Alexa, turn on laundrydone. She said OK. I do SELECT again, and I still see my row. So I open command and go to c:\misc and run laundryreset.bat. Do another SELECT and now there are no results. So the batch file works. Next I clicked start load again to obtain data then went to the TriggerCMD GUI editor, found laundrydone and clicked the play button. SELECT'd and I still have data. I do a very similar thing for my health tracking database. I can say "Alexa, turn on diet Pepsi" and it will use loghealth.bat to add that to my daily food log (I'm diabetic so I watch what I eat carefully). So I compared the two since TC has no issue with loghealth:

C:\Misc>cacls loghealth.bat
C:\Misc\loghealth.bat NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
                      BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
                      BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
                      MYDOMAIN\strahan:(ID)F


C:\Misc>cacls laundryreset.bat
C:\Misc\laundryreset.bat NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
                         BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
                         BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
                         MYDOMAIN\strahan:(ID)F

Well, that looks fine. So I tried modifying the batch file:

@echo off
echo WTF is wrong with you>log.txt
sql homecenter "delete from activeitems where action = 8192" /u service.triggercmd.homecenter /p (pwd) /h lioth.mydomain.com /l laundryreset.log

Hit the play button in TC GUI, log.txt never appeared. What should I check next?

Hi. Ever since IFTTT and Alexa stopped working, I started making a bunch of TriggerCMD triggers to fill in the void. I made a website to log health data (calories eaten, exercise done, etc). So I made a batch file:

@echo off
echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 >>log.txt
if "%1"=="med" goto :medication
if "%1"=="bedtime" goto :bed
c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=food&food=%1"
goto :eof

:medication
if "%2"=="fi8" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=8"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi10" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=10"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi12" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=12"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi14" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=14"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="fi18" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=fast&amt=18"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="li50" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=insulin&type=long&amt=50"&goto :eof
if "%2"=="night" c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=nightmeds"&goto :eof

c:\misc\wget.exe "https://mysite.com/index.php?m=api&sm=meds&mid=%2&units=%3"
goto :eof

:bed
echo %2 >>log.txt

I have a bunch of commands. Here is a sample:

Trigger: diet pepsi
Command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat dpepsi12
Off command: (greyed out)
Ground: foreground
Voice: diet pepsi
Voice reply: (empty)
Allow parameters: false

This works great. I say "Alexa, turn on diet pepsi" then check my health site and it has logged a can of Diet Pepsi. I also track my bedtime/getting up times so if I feel drug out I can look at my health site and be like well yea, I slept 5 hours 12 minutes no doubt heh. I wanted to leverage the on/off ability, figuring I'd say "Alexa turn on bedtime" to mark myself asleep and turn off to mark awake:

Trigger: bedtime
Command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat bedtime on
Off command: c:\misc\loghealth.bat bedtime off
Ground: foreground
Voice: bedtime
Voice reply: (empty)
Allow parameters: true

However, neither on nor off works. I added the echo to log.txt lines and I never even get a log.txt, so it's not firing the batch at all.

Any idea why? Thanks!

Hi. I used TriggerCMD a couple years ago but my need for the functionality was abated so I stopped using it. I now have need again, so I installed the agent. Plugged in my token it said I need to resubscribe. So I went to the site's control panel and I can't find anywhere that one does this.

Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Thanks. Only outbound? That's curious. So when I use my IFTTT webhook trigger with Alexa to turn my bedroom fan on, it doesn't send a packet to my agent from your system to let it know to activate?

Thanks!

PS: The reason I have to rebuild the machine is it was compromised. I implemented IP filters on my firewall so only my cellphone and family systems can access my server. The communications from your service; is there an IP range I can use to whitelist it?

Hi. I need to reformat the machine I have TRIGGERcmd installed in. Where does it save its settings so I can back it up? I'd rather not have to recreate all the triggers. Thanks.

This is a bit late, lol, but thanks. Got that all working now so I can be in bed and say "alexa, trigger windy 15" and have my fan turn on for fifteen minutes only. So nice Used to be I could turn it on with Alexa but it would run until I turn it off, so I'd fall asleep and wake up frozen hehe.

Thanks!

Hi. I want to be able to lie in bed and say "alexa, trigger fan 15" and have it run a batch that will turn the fan in the bedroom off in fifteen minutes. But just to start simple, I made a batch file that just plays a WAV file so I can test the connectivity. Installed TriggerCMD agent on my pc named "Zaranth". As that's a mouthful and i was afraid Alexa may interpret the weird word oddly, I set voice trigger for that PC to game as it's my gaming rig. I created a command "noisy" that runs \misc\triggercmd\noise.bat. If I hit the green "trigger" button for that command when viewing the list of triggers, it works perfectly.

So I said "alexa, ask trigger c m d to run noisy on game" (figured I'd make sure it worked native before throwing IFTTT into the mix). No dice. It won't see it, said it cannot find that command. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMJyKXx1zQ

Thanks. The generic usage method looks fine. I wouldn't think that a movie or whatever specific parameter would really be necessary; the people creating their commands will know what kind of input to expect and will handle it accordingly.

I guess for now I'll just make "codewords" that do specific functions, heh. That'll work for now. Thanks again!

Hi! I just bought an Echo tonight, and the deciding factor was that I could control my PC when I Googled and saw your program. I've been playing with it, it's cool. However, I have one snag. I wanted to be able to launch videos from it, so I created a trigger "Die Hard", command was the path and filename of the video, voice was "die hard". I pronounced it as clearly as I could but it keeps saying "cannot find command die". Does it not support multiple word voice commands? I changed it to "die" and it worked.

Also I was trying to find documentation on parameters and failing. Can you direct me? I'm wondering if I can create a command that is generic then pass parameters that I assume I say after the trigger word to launch the appropriate title. I just can't find any docs on how parameters work.

I setup a trigger "video", with command "p:\utils\scripts\triggercmd.php video", voice "video" allow parameters true. My PHP script looks for parameter "diehard". I said "alexa, ask trigger c m d to run video diehard" and it said "could not find a command with voice word video hard on (pcname)". Am I misinterpreting how to use parameters?