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    Russ

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    I'm a tech enthusiast with about 30 years experience in IT. Recently I'm also a TRIGGERcmd developer.

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    • RE: Laptop Battery Management - Automated On/Off Cycle

      @philip-nguyen, there's a similar question here.

      These are the high level steps:

      1. Create 2 commands that just run echo (doesn't matter what), and name them PlugOn and PlugOff.
      2. Setup two Alexa routines - one that turns on your smart plug when the PlugOn command runs, and other that turns it off when the PlugOff command runs.
      3. Create a script. At the beginning of the script, do the following:
      4. Set variable called PLUG_IS_ON with a default value of true.
      5. To make sure the plug is on at first, run the tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugon -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
      6. Create a loop that repeats every minute. Inside the loop, do the following:
      7. Check your battery level with BatteryInfoView.exe
      8. When the level is below 30 percent and PLUG_IS_ON = false, run tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugon -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
      9. When the level is above 99 percent and PLUG_IS_ON = true, run tcmd utility like this: tcmd -t plugoff -c (your TRIGGERcmd computer name)
      10. Also set PLUG_IS_ON to true when you run plugon, and set it to false when you run plugoff

      I think that should work. Do you know how to do that? Let me know if you get stuck, and where you get stuck. I can look at your script if you paste it here.

      posted in Example Commands
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    • List of ways to trigger your commands

      You can use this web page of course, but don't stop there. Check out this list of ways to run your commands on your computers.

      The Smart Home version of the Alexa skill and Google Assistant action does the best job of matching your spoken words to your commands.

      Smart Home voice assistant skills (Example: "Alexa, turn on calculator") <--Recommended

      • "TRIGGERcmd Smart Home" Alexa skill
      • "TRIGGERcmd Smart Home" Google Assistant action

      Original "conversational" voice assistant skills (Example: "Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run calculator"):

      • Original Alexa skill
      • Original Google Assistant action (deprecated)

      Progressive Web App (PWA)

      • https://app.triggercmd.com

      Mobile apps:

      • Apple App Store: TRIGGERcmd
      • Google Play Store: TRIGGERcmd (supports widgets)
      • Amazon App Store: TRIGGERcmd

      Run your commands when things happen in other Internet services:

      • Zapier - create a "Zap" that runs your command when something happens on one of their 1500+ supported apps.
      • Make - create "scenarios" that run commands on your computers.
      • IFTTT - If This Then run a command, or if a TRIGGERcmd command runs, run an IFTTT applet.
      • Microsoft Power Automate (aka Flow) - run commands when things happen in Office 365 and other services.
      • Pipedream - build workflows that run your commands.

      AI methods:

      • OpenClaw skill.
      • Local stdio MCP - Run commands from local AI LLM chat tools like Claude Desktop or VS Code. Use the "MCP Tool Description" field of each command to tell the LLM what the command does, and how to use the parameters.
      • Online Streamable HTTP MCP - Same as above but for online AI tools like Mistral AI.

      IoT Smart Home hubs:

      • Home Assistant - Flip virtual HA switches to run your TRIGGERcmd commands.
      • Samsung SmartThings - Create virtual switches for each command, then flip the switches to run them. (Not working as of 6/21/2025)
      • Homey - Use the ‘run command’ flow action.
      • Hubitat - Trigger a command like you'd flip a switch.
      • Node-RED - Run commands using an "http request".
      • HomeKit - Use the homebridge-http-switch plugin with a bookmark URL.

      Other cool methods:

      • Run an Alexa routine - when one of your TRIGGERcmd commands runs.
      • Google Assistant routine (aka automation) - use one of your TRIGGERcmd commands as a "starter" to run your routine when the command runs, or run one of your commands as a routine's "action." Either way, you must use the google automations script editor, not the Home app.
      • n8n community node - Run your commands from n8n AI workflows.
      • Bookmarks - Create and share URL's that run your commands without authentication. You can set an optional timeout to make bookmark URL's expire. People can also scan your bookmark's QR code to run the command.
      • iOS shortcut - Use the iOS Shortcuts app to run your commands with Siri.
      • REST API - Use curl or other client to call the TRIGGERcmd API.
      • tcmd - Command line tool written in Go.
      • Tasker - Tasker is an Android app for automating things with your phone.
      • Slack app - Run your commands with Slack "slash" commands.
      • Powershell - Run a command on a computer across the Internet from your powershell script.
      • Roku channel - Run a command from your Roku.
      • Unity - Run a command from a Unity game or utility you made.
      • Streamdeck - Configure a Streamdeck button to run a command on a remote computer.
      • Python - Run a command on a remote computer from a python script.
      • Paywall URL's - Similar to bookmark URL's, you can also charge people via Paypal to run your commands.
      • viaSocket - Run commands from your viaSocket flow.
      posted in Instructions trigger methods
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    • Autohotkey script for Play, Pause, Volume Up/Down, Next/Previous

      You'll need to install this on your Windows box to make it work: https://autohotkey.com

      This is my media.ahk autohotkey script:

      Gosub, %1%
      return

      next:
      Send {Media_Next}
      return

      previous:
      Send {Media_Prev}
      return

      pause:
      Send {Media_Play_Pause}
      return

      play:
      Send {Media_Play_Pause}
      return

      stop:
      Send {Media_Stop}
      return

      volup:
      Send {Volume_Up}
      return

      voldown:
      Send {Volume_Down}
      return

      mute:
      Send {Volume_Mute}
      return

      These are the corresponding commands.json entries:

      {"trigger":"Mute","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk mute","ground":"foreground","voice":"mute"},
      {"trigger":"Volume Up","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk volup","ground":"foreground","voice":"volume up"},
      {"trigger":"Volume Down","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk voldown","ground":"foreground","voice":"volume down"},
      {"trigger":"Media Next","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk next","ground":"foreground","voice":"next"},
      {"trigger":"Media Stop","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk stop","ground":"foreground","voice":"stop"},
      {"trigger":"Media Previous","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk previous","ground":"foreground","voice":"previous"},
      {"trigger":"Media Play Pause","command":"start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk pause","ground":"foreground","voice":"pause"},

      NOTE: You don't need a Play and a Pause because they do the same thing - they just toggle between play and pause.

      This is optional, but I'm also using my Raspberry Pi based IR receiver to trigger the above commands with a VCR remote.

      I have these entries in my /etc/lirc/lircrc file on the Pi:

        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_1
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh play downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_2
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh notepad downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_PLAY
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Play Pause" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_PAUSE
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Play Pause" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_RIGHT
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Next" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_LEFT
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Previous" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_STOP
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Media Stop" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_UP
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Volume Up" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_DOWN
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Volume Down" downstairs
        end
        begin
             prog = irexec
             button = KEY_MUTE
             config = export HOME=/root ; /root/triggertest.sh "Mute" downstairs
        end
      
      posted in Windows
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    • RE: internal server error

      @Micael-Sousa, good to know. I'm glad you figured this out.

      posted in Alexa
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    • RE: Doc Api

      @Ruan-Santana, I added two pages to the documentation this morning:

      https://docs.triggercmd.com/#/./API/TriggerCommand
      https://docs.triggercmd.com/#/./API/ListCommands

      Is that what you're looking for?

      posted in API
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    • RE: New Bookmark option for each trigger

      @tim-s, that's right - you could even just change the trigger name and change it back, and it would invalidate the bookmark URL.

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Shutdown não funciona no mac

      @Waldex-Santos, I think this should work:

      osascript -e 'delay 60' -e 'tell app "System Events" to shut down'
      
      posted in Mac
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    • RE: Triggercmd smart home not reachable

      It's back up now.

      One of my servers went down last night, and Kubernetes didn't handle the fail-over well.

      I got an email from my monitoring system while I was sleeping. I'll need to setup something else that will actually wake me up.

      I'm sorry about this outage.

      posted in Google Home
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    • Hubitat integration

      @Royski created this Hubitat integration that works just like the SmartThings integration.

      His write up is here, on the Hubitat community forum:
      https://community.hubitat.com/t/release-triggercmd-for-hubitat/22715

      The code and instructions are here:
      https://github.com/rvmey/HubitatTRIGGERcmd

      Here's quick video showing it working:
      https://youtu.be/V90B7jbEYxI

      posted in Instructions
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    • Alexa bug fixed

      Some of you might have noticed, when you'd say something like:

      Alexa, ask TRIGGER cmd to run notepad on downstairs

      You'd get an answer like this:

      "Could not find a command with voice word cmd notepad on downstairs, ..."

      I fixed that today.

      For some reason Alexa started sending the "cmd" part of "TRIGGER cmd" as a prefix in the command name. I actually had to add code to strip that out.

      posted in Announcements
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    Latest posts made by Russ

    • RE: Limit of triggers in the free option?

      @Pepe-Tops , good to know. I'll test and fix that if I can reproduce it.

      posted in Linux
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    • RE: Apple Silicon / Rosetta 2 being discontinued.

      @Matt-Packwood, I thought I did produce an Apple Silicon version. Are you saying this version isn't an Apple Silicon version?

      https://agents.triggercmd.com/TRIGGERcmdAgent-arm64.dmg

      posted in Mac
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    • RE: Limit of triggers in the free option?

      @Pepe-Tops, no, you don't need a subscription to add more commands. You can have as many commands as you want. You might need to restart your agent if it stopped sync'ing.

      One thing to keep in mind - your agent is either running in foreground or background mode, and when it's in foreground mode it will only add/remove/run foreground commands, and vice-versa.

      If you installed the background agent, make sure your commands are background commands if you want it to use them.

      posted in Linux
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    • CLAUDE.md to use local AI model

      I just followed this guy's tutorial:
      https://towardsdatascience.com/run-claude-code-for-free-with-local-and-cloud-models-from-ollama/

      I'm using claude code with ollama running gpt-oss:20b on my PC with my Nvidia GPU to speed it up.

      I found this CLAUDE.md file works well. It tells the gpt-oss model how to use the Write tool to write to files:

      My CLAUDE.md file:

      ## Important rules
      - If the user wants you to write a file, do it. Use your Write tool to create the file. The Write tool has a required parameter called "file_path".
      

      My interactive claude session:

       ▐▛███▜▌   Claude Code v2.1.29
      ▝▜█████▛▘  gpt-oss:20b · API Usage Billing
        ▘▘ ▝▝    ~/appdev/raspi
      
        /model to try Opus 4.5
      
      ❯ create a python script called hello.py in the current directory that prints "Hello World".
      
      ● Write(hello.py)
        ⎿  Wrote 2 lines to hello.py
            1 print("Hello World")
      

      This is a command that runs a non-interactive claude session. You could run it via the TRIGGERcmd agent

      claude -p -d --model gpt-oss:20b --permission-mode acceptEdits "create a python script called hello.py in the current directory that prints Hello World"
      

      I created a this myclaude.bat file:

      set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434
      set ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=ollama
      cd c:\myfolder
      claude -p -d --model gpt-oss:20b --permission-mode acceptEdits %1
      

      My Command field in the GUI editor looks like this:

      start /w c:\myfolder\myclaude.bat
      

      My commands.json entry looks like this:

       {
        "trigger": "claude code",
        "command": "start /w c:\\myfolder\\myclaude.bat",
        "offCommand": "",
        "ground": "foreground",
        "voice": "",
        "voiceReply": "",
        "allowParams": "true",
        "quoteParams": "true",
        "mcpToolDescription": ""
       }
      
      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Background Service Stopping

      @Brad-Magri-Olson, thank you for reporting the issue.

      I'm on version 1.0.54 and so far I'm not able to reproduce the issue.

      Can you try upgrading to 1.0.54? I tried downgrading my agent and I still couldn't reproduce it.

      Also, can you tell me what background command you're running?
      Also, what antivirus software do you use? I wonder if that's killing the service.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Email says command didn't run, but it did.

      @David-Coulson, I fixed it. Now you won't get these "TRIGGERcmd - Your command didn't run" emails if the trigger was from Home Assistant.

      05213127-87ef-4be4-8f7a-ca4b3ae145f3-image.png

      Thanks again for reporting the problem.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: TRIGGERcmd setup on Google Assistant

      @Nuno-Gomes, thanks for telling me. Please try again. It should work now.

      posted in Google Home
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    • RE: Firest time setting up, oauth failure

      @Asit-Mishra, thanks for telling me. Please try again. It should work now.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: How to use Off Command

      @Yoni, thanks for letting me know. I'll make it case-insensitive in the next version.

      posted in Instructions
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    • RE: I want to be able to trigger an Alexa routine from a command line with the triggercmdagent installed on my Raspberry Pi

      @Matt-Lodder, what OS are you running? I just tried echo on my Windows laptop and it did not pop up a window.

      posted in Raspberry Pi
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