I would probably pay like $100 for Home Remote to offer an hr_alexa.exe command line tool

[dhess83]

hr_alexa.exe /cmd “Play my liked songs on Spotify”. This is functionality I’ve been looking for, for such a long time, and can’t figure out how to accomplish it. Then I saw that The Home Remote now accepts direct Alexa commands in the GUI. Developers, please oh please, make this possible for me.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

You can use Home Remote shortcuts to do this.

Desktop Shortcut to turn on/off Light

Yes, if you know the actual name of the Device object, you can add a shortcut to turn it on & off. In the screenshot below you can see the Name of my object is Lamp. Here is the shortcut to turn Lamp on: homeremote://groups/Home?Lamp.Switch=On Here is the shortcut to turn Lamp off. homeremote://groups/Home?Lamp.Switch=Off All you need to do is substitute your object name in place of “Lamp”. [image] [image]

[dhess83]

You sir, are a living legend. I’m going to try this out tonight when I get home from work. Thank you!

Edit: I am struggling. Since the Alexa device types are scenes and not switches, I have tried both Devicename.Switch=On and Devicename.Scene=On

I’m techy by nature but not excellent with code and syntax. Is there a reference somewhere on this forum for the proper syntax of homeremote:// calls? Also, THR has to be invoked for this, which means the THR remote Window takes over the screen that I’m on. Would there be any way to prevent this?

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

There’s no way to prevent the app from opening in the Window. Try leaving the value blank after the equals sign.

Devicename.Scene=