Posts made by Russ

@dominik-pellkofer, yes, same issue with German. I was able to reproduce it even with a brand new project, so I open a ticket with Google with screnshots. Hopefully that will prove something is wrong, and give them ideas on how to fix it.

@alain-coderre, bad news. That problem where a person using French language gets an English response. I was hoping Google fixed it. I'm researching it again now.

@concretesurfer, awesome. Yea if you have spaces you need quotes around your path.

@alain-coderre, I just submitted the French and German language versions. I should get feedback in a couple days. It probably won't pass their review the first time, but at least now I'm making progress.

@concretesurfer, this might be the issue:

When I wrote "start C:\\autohotkeyscripts\\media.ahk stop" above, the context was the commands.json file, but if you're using the GUI Editor, you can skip the double \\'s.

Just use "start C:\autohotkeyscripts\media.ahk stop" in the GUI Editor.

Or "start G:\autohotkeyscripts\media.ahk stop", if you're using the G: drive.

@phil-davenport, awesome. I'm glad that worked. Sorry I didn't think of that right away.

@phil-davenport, I'm glad you mentioned your AV software! I keep forgetting some AV applications break the installer. Please try temporarily disabling that during the TRIGGERcmd agent install. I think that will work.

@phil-davenport, I have a couple ideas. You could try right-clicking it and running "As administrator" or maybe just re-download it and try again.

@michaelsmith, what problem are you having? I updated the link on that post to point to the new Raspberry Pi agent.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/triggercmdagents/triggercmdagent_1.0.1_all.deb

@wiegerduck, I answered you with a video showing how to do it, but here's the high level idea:

1 - Your voice says "Alexa, trigger calculator"
2 - Alexa tells IFTTT to tell TRIGGERcmd to tell your computer to run calculator
3 - Your computer runs calculator

https://youtu.be/KO0JGYwpcDE

@dave1223, can you verify your Windows 10 is a 64bit version?

If you search for "system" and open your System control panel, you should see this about half way down:

System type:  64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor

I ask because the normal agent doesn't work on 32bit windows.

@a-mcf, that is so awesome!! Nice job.

This is what it looks like.

@jim-robertson, that's interesting. Good jobs figuring that out. I wouldn't have thought of that.

@jim-robertson, can you send your script and a screenshot of how you've got the command configured?

My initial suspicion is you might have your command field set to the name of your batch file without the path like this:

myscript.bat

That will only work if your script is in a folder that's included in your PATH environment variable. Nate has a video about how to add the folder here, but what some people do is put their batch files in c:\windows because c:\windows is included in the PATH environment variable by default.

@kalen-daniel, I didn't provide a method to auto-start the triggercmdagent in the foreground on a Pi. Your method is helpful because it provides a way to do that.

I figured most people would not run X-windows on their Pi's, like my-use case as a garages door opener. In cases like that, you'd run this script as root:

/usr/share/triggercmdagent/app/src/installdaemon.sh

... to install the triggercmdagent as a systemd daemon that would only run background commands.

After you run that script you can stop/start or get a status of the agent with these commands:

systemctl stop triggercmdagent
systemctl start triggercmdagent
systemctl status triggercmdagent

@a-mcf, I hope you don't mind. I re-formatted your post a little bit. I just added ``` before and after the big code block to make it look like code.

Also, nice job on the movie player script!

I got one to see if I could use it with TRIGGERcmd. You can't.

It answers general questions like a normal Alexa device, but it doesn't work with skills like TRIGGERcmd or TRIGGER command. Bummer.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Dash-Wand-With-Alexa/dp/B01MQMJFDK

@dramradhel, I wonder if you didn't see the Instructions link on the left because you were logged in using a cell phone browser?

That navigation panel is hidden when you use a cell phone browser.

@superhuynh, generally, you'd want to make one triggercmd entry with parameters enabled that runs a batch file like this:

if "%1"=="on" curl http://.....%%22A6%%20on%%22
if "%1"=="off" curl http://.....%%22A6%%20off%%22

It takes a single parameter of ether on or off and runs the respective command. %1 gets replaced by the on or off parameter SmartThings will send if you enable parameters on that command.

That will give you this:
"i would want a virtual switch to be able to toggle on and off."

But it won't give you this:
"More importantly I would want the switch to have discrete on and off buttons."

Those two seem to be in conflict. If you really want the discrete on and off buttons, then you could make an on command and an off command (with parameters disabled), and have two separate ST switches. By default those switches will look like they're toggling on and off when you press them. If you want the switches to always show as "off", then you could use this solution.

@bear269, you should avoid using the word "on" in your Voice field. The word "on" is reserved for separating the command from the computer.

Run X on Y is the format where Y is the computer's Voice field.