@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.

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.

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 stuff:

• 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.
• 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.

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

@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?

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

@Waldex-Santos, I think this should work:

osascript -e 'delay 60' -e 'tell app "System Events" to shut down'

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.

@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

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.

@Murilo-Callegari, if you look at the Runs list for your command, it should say "Command ran" if the command actually ran on your computer.

If you're worried the screen still didn't lock even though your "lock screen" command ran, you could have your "lock screen" script also check whether the screen is locked, and send that information to the Runs list using the ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/result.sh script.

Just run ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/result.sh from your "lock screen" script with a status message like "Locked" or "Unlocked" as the parameter when you run result.sh.

You can also have Alexa speak the "Locked" or "Unlocked" result if you add {{result}} to your command's Voice Reply field and use one the Conversational Alexa skills.

This article has more about that.

Nice @gajahduduk. I'm glad you got it working. Thanks for sharing your use-case.

@gajahduduk, the sendresult.sh script is not executable by default, so you could probably solve it by running this:

chmod +x ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/sendresult.sh

Or make your command:

osascript -e 'tell application "Music" to set result to "This song is " & name of current track & " by " & artist of current track & " on the " & year of current track & " album " & album of current track' | sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/' | xargs -I{} bash ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/sendresult.sh {}

If you run a command like this:

curl 'https://TRIGGERcmd.com/api/run/trigger?computer=maclaptop&trigger=result&token=(your token)'

... and your command has {{result}} in the Voice Reply field, you'll get a response like this:

{"message":"Trigger sent.  Result was: YOURRESULT"}

So your Shortcut will need to parse that message using "Get Dictionary Value".

This post has some detail about it.

EDIT: I changed that response to the following to make it easier to get the command's result.

{"message":"Trigger sent.  Result was: YOURRESULT", "result":"YOURRESULT"}

This screenshot doesn't show the room I could see while in VR. Apparently the Quest filters that out of screenshots.

I placed a switch in my room and now I can turn it on in VR to run Calculator on my "NewLaptop" computer via TRIGGERcmd.

It's pretty cool, but it needs work. It's opensource. I downloaded it for free and installed it with SideQuest, but you can also install it from the Meta Quest app store for $5. It reads your devices from your Home Assistant server.

https://immersive-home.org/

@gajahduduk, that's great. Thank you for testing it and letting me know.

@Jordel-Miranda, I think you have something in your commands.json that's causing the issue. Please try renaming it. It's in this folder:

C:\Users\(your user)\.TRIGGERcmdData

@gajahduduk, ok - you're right you do have to use one the Trigger Command, TC, or TRIGGERcmd skill to hear the result of your command.

To answer your question about adding that to the new TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill - no, it's not possible.

@gajahduduk said in Trigger a command with a Shortcut via Siri:

osascript -e 'tell application "Music" to set result to "This song is " & name of current track & " by " & artist of current track & " on the " & year of current track & " album " & album of current track' | sed 's/^/"/;s/$/"/' | xargs -I{} ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/sendresult.sh {}

Can you help me get started? I tried your command it doesn't seem to work. Is there something I need to do in the Music app first?

russ@macbook-air ~ % osascript -e 'tell application "Music" to set result to "This song is " & name of current track & " by " & artist of current track & " on the " & year of current track & " album " & album of current track'
60:64: execution error: Can’t make name of «class pTrk» of application "Music" into type Unicode text. (-1700)

That's interesting @gajahduduk. I'll need to do some research. I didn't know about this issue until you mentioned it here, so thank you for telling me.

As always, I recommend you switch to the TRIGGERcmd Smart Home skill unless you have a specific use-case for the Trigger Command skill.

@Cristian-Dindinelli, yes so far I haven't been able to get it working after the recent change Samsung made.

@TheDreamer68, give me some time to look into this. I'll get back to you soon. So far it seems SmartThings broke this integration recently. I'm finding their new system does not synchronize with the "My Testing Devices" list in the SmartThings app.

I created a new Schema App and found it doesn't show up in the SmartThings app under "My Testing Devices."

I also migrated one of my existing Schema Apps using the smartthings schema:update command, but it doesn't work. I also renamed it and the new name doesn't show up in the SmartThings app under "My Testing Devices."