Posts made by Russ

@Vinicius-Gimenez-Figuerola , interesting. What triggers that routine? I would think the command couldn't trigger it because it would be too late. I'll try it.

@Vinicius-Gimenez-Figuerola, I noticed the same thing yesterday. When I trigger a new or changed command via the virtual Alexa Smart Home device, my Echo device says, "Ding dong, someone is at [voice word]." Old commands are not affected.

For now, I set my Alexa device to "Do Not Disturb" so I don't hear the announcement like this article suggested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GV7ZJNSWKL8E3D7T

I'm looking into what changed. I think Amazon changed something recently because I didn't change anything related to the doorbell feature. You probably know this, but the doorbell feature is needed to trigger an Alexa routine when a command runs.

It doesn't have anything to do with the Voice/MCP Reply field. The TRIGGERcmd Smart Home Alexa skill doesn't use it. Only the legacy conversational Alexa skills (called TRIGGERcmd, Trigger Command, and TC) use it.

I opened a case with Amazon about it.

@Pierce-Ó-Brádaigh, I'll refund your money. If you use Paddle instead of Paypal to re-subscribe, you can cancel the auto-renewal and it won't immediately stop your subscription benefits.

Use this prompt in claude code to produce a dashboard artifact like this:

Create a claude.ai Artifact that's a control-panel dashboard for my TRIGGERcmd connector — it lists all my TRIGGERcmd commands, grouped by computer, and lets me run any of them with an optional parameter, right from the page.

Before writing any code:
1. Load the artifact-capabilities skill and read the mcp.d.ts type definitions for the current runtime contract — follow that contract exactly, don't rely on remembered API shape.
2. Find my TRIGGERcmd MCP tools (they'll appear as mcp__<connector>__list_commands and mcp__<connector>__run_command or similar). Actually call list_commands, and actually call run_command once (e.g. trigger a harmless command like a Calculator command) to observe the REAL response shape — TRIGGERcmd tools return plain text, not JSON, so you'll need to parse that text yourself rather than assume structured JSON.
3. Note: the manifest `capabilities` you pass to the Artifact tool uses the connector name segment from the tool's internal name (e.g. "claude_ai_TRIGGERcmd"), which gets auto-resolved to the display name at publish time. BUT the actual `window.claude.mcp.callTool()` / `watchTool()` calls inside the page's JavaScript must use the connector's real DISPLAY NAME (e.g. "TRIGGERcmd"), not that internal segment — using the segment at runtime causes a `not_in_manifest` error even though the manifest itself is correct. Get this right the first time.

Dashboard requirements:
- Use watchTool for list_commands (it's a read, should stay live/refreshable) and callTool for run_command (it's an action, fire on click).
- Parse the text response into computer → [commands] groups; each command may have a voice-trigger label and/or a description (commands with descriptions typically accept a text parameter).
- Layout: sidebar or nav of computers with command counts, a search box that filters across all commands, collapsible groups per computer, and a Run button + optional parameter input per command.
- Show a live activity log (e.g. fixed panel) of triggered commands with pending/success/error status, since these are fire-and-forget hardware/device triggers with no persistent state to poll.
- Handle MCP failure states distinctly per the type definitions — don't collapse everything into one generic error banner: distinguish "connector not connected/needs reauth" (show a reconnect message) from "temporarily unavailable" (offer retry, keep last-good data visible) from "not available in this context" (full-page fallback, e.g. when window.claude.mcp is undefined).
- Design it as a real control-panel UI (dark/light theme aware, decent typography, not a default Bootstrap-y look) — apply the artifact-design skill's guidance for a UI/dashboard treatment.

Publish it as a shareable Artifact with an appropriate favicon.

Then you'll find this and other artifacts here: https://claude.ai/artifacts

@Hannibal said in Error while installing the triggercmdagent:

Notice: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/hannibal/downloads/triggercmdagent_1.0.1_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

Copy/paste that into ChatGPT to know why, but you can safely ignore that "Notice". Basically it means the _apt user doesn't have access to your user's home directory where the .deb file is, so it's using root to access it instead.

It looks like the agent is installed now, so you can move on to the next step:

node /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/agent.js --console

It should prompt you for a token which you can copy/paste from the Instructions page while logged in at https://www.triggercmd.com

@Hannibal, thank you for reporting it! I tested it and ran into the same problem at first, but it's fixed now. Please download it again and try the install again.

@Matthew-Mason, it's a good use case that I should not disable, so I'm glad you caught it.

@Matthew-Mason, thank you for reporting this.

I was trying to avoid a loop that one user created, so I disabled the Alexa smart home "doorbell" press when the trigger source was an Alexa Smart Home device trigger.

It was intentional, but in hindsight it was the wrong way to fix it so I reverted the change. It should work now.

I'll find a better way to avoid the loop.

@Christopher-Foote, sorry about the issue. I'm not sure what happened, but I enabled your subscription.

@Sreehari-J, I see your subscription in Paypal. Do you want me to cancel it?

@zedsyd4-EZ, great, I'm glad that worked.

@zedsyd4-EZ, sorry no. The system is built to understand subscribed, or not subscribed, and subscribed means multiple PC's and multiple commands per minute.

@zedsyd4-EZ please try putting a space between each character in your password (like in my example).

@zedsyd4-EZ, I'd use nircmd.exe for that.

For example, this would type "hello world":

nircmd.exe sendkeypress h e l l o spc w o r l d

You can download it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

https://chatgpt.com/apps/triggercmd/asdk_app_694c84d39cb881918c6d181ae69e33fc

In case you want a command that sends some text to a screen, I created this project:

https://github.com/rvmey/esp32-s3-ssh-wled

Example command:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 admin@<device-ip> 'landscape; color white; textcolor blue; fontsize 8; text Hello\nWorld!'

The result:

Go here to flash it:
https://rvmey.github.io/esp32-s3-ssh-wled/

Here are some store listings to get the hardware:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256810472549403.html
https://www.amazon.com/DIYmalls-Capacitive-Touchscreen-JC3248W535C-ESP32-S3-WROOM-1/dp/B0DGXRZ58V

EDIT 4/7/2026:
I made a new version of the firmware that I can control as a TRIGGERcmd computer.

EDIT 6/6/2026:
I've since switched to this device: https://docs.m5stack.com/en/core/core2_for_aws
Now it has an mp3 player, and I can tell it to show a picture of a cat, or tell it to play a specific mp3 like this:

@Yoni, thank you for reporting this.

Please try again. It should work now.

@Alisson-Teixeira, I translated that as:

"I would like to know if it's possible to turn off the monitor and the computer at the same time with just one command? In the free version? With the example command, the monitor enters power saving mode, but doesn't turn off completely...

Question for Windows please"

You can run multiple commands in one command by putting && between commands, like this:

nircmd.exe monitor off && shutdown /s /t 10