Good question @gingerslayer113. You have to turn the computer on by running a command on another computer on your network. Do you have a Raspberry Pi, Mac, or PC on your network that's always turned on? I use the same Raspberry Pi that opens and closes my garage to turn on my PC. Trigger CMD runs a command on my Pi that sends a magic packet to my PC's nic that turns the PC on.

@bradslk, Thanks for telling me about this. "Could not find a command with voice word undefined" should not happen. I'll see if I can reproduce that problem and fix it. In the meantime, please try saying "Alexa, ask Trigger Command to run testing'. That will likely help Alexa parse out the testing word in your sentence

The other problem, 'Could not find a computer with voice word Office' happens when you don't have a computer in your account with the voice field filled in with the word "office". I see that your computer's name is office, but its voice field is blank.

@xander, thanks for testing. I'm glad you asked for that. I needed a Go project, and a CLI tool that calls an API is a perfect use case for Go.

@insaneoctane, I'm sure it was #3.

It has to show up on the webpage before you can trigger the command with the API, and background commands don't show up until you install the background service. That background service feature is often misunderstood. I almost wish I didn't include it. It's meant to allow you to trigger commands in the context of a Windows service or a Linux daemon so you don't have to be logged in for the commands to run.

Thanks @tony-bineyard. I added this to the list of examples that show up in the agent GUI.

Thanks @tony-bineyard. I added this to the list of examples that show up in the agent GUI.

@nabeel, there are a few ways to avoid saying TRIGGER CMD:

• Use the "TRIGGER Command" skill instead of the TRIGGERcmd skill.
• Use a Google Assistant shortcut like my "open sesame" example for opening my garage.
• Use SmartThings with an Alexa "routine"
• Use SmartThings and say, "turn on X" (where X is your virtual switch for your command).
• Use IFTTT like you said.

My favorite method is a Google Assistant shortcut.

@nabeel, you should be able to say:

Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run songs on computer one

It will work best if you make the voice field on your computer "computer one" instead of "computer1".

Or, if computer one is your only computer or your default computer, you can just say:

Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run songs

Also, while we're talking about using numbers in your computer's voice field, I'll tell you I've done some testing with numbered rooms, and I found that Alexa does text-to-speech like this:

Room one
Room 2
Room 3
Room for
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Roommate
Room 9
Room 10
Room 11

Those are the best words to put in the voice field for rooms, so I think you'd get similar results with computer one, computer 2, computer 3 etc.

@ryan-roberts, you can add a line to that commands.json file like this, to add a command you want to be able to run:

{"trigger":"apt update","command":"apt-get -y update","ground":"background","voice":"update"},

If you find that your changes go away as soon as you save the file, then there's likely some bad json formatting in the file you tried to save. The most common problem is you have a comma on the last line.

@sailoreffinmoon, I get that "Target label does not exist" for "Gosub, %1%." error if I run the ahk script with no parameter.

So maybe you just need to add one of the parameters, like mute to the command line.

Example command:

start C:\autohotkeyscripts\media.ahk mute