commandlineplugin, echo, single quotes... confused about fauxmo-plugins

[n8henrie]

I've never heard of mochad, looks like some kind of RF controller? Probably not relevant.

Kind of looks like fauxmo is echoing the whole rest of the line: 'rf a4 on' | nc localhost 1099".

In the future, please try to read through the docstrings before filing an issue:

Note that subprocess.run as implemented in this plugin doesn't handle complex
commands with pipes, redirection, or multiple statements joined by &&, ||,
;, etc., so you can't just use e.g. "command that sometimes fails || true"
to avoid the delay and Alexa's response. If you really want to handle more
complex commands, consider using this plugin as a template for another one
using os.system instead of subprocess.run, but realize that this comes with
substantial security risks that exceed my ability to explain.

My recommendation for an easier fix would be to put the echo 'rf a4 on' | nc localhost 1099 into a shell script, e.g.

#! /bin/bash
# testfile.sh
echo 'rf a4 on' | nc localhost 1099

Make it executable (chmod +x testfile.sh) and test that it works directly (./testfile.sh), and if so then see if you can just call that from commandlineplugin.

[pr3sidentspence]

Weird, I totally read that paragraph (I remember the end of it), but I must have been half asleep to miss that. I even did 15 minutes of research into whether Shlex was mishandling quotes. Sorry about that.

And, I think what you suggested is exactly what I must have done last time. Thanks!

[pr3sidentspence]

PS - Is there a place to ask questions or for help with this, or any project, without filing an issue? I'm a github neophyte.

[n8henrie]

It depends on the organization -- many have a chatroom like Gitter, Slack, or IRC that can work for informal stuff. I can field really quick Qs from Twitter, but otherwise an issue is appropriate.