Using Custom Payloads

Helping Us Help You, Part 20

Being able to send commands to your device has always been possible with Cucumber Tony. And recently we improved upon this by opening up the ability to run your own custom commands, essentially allowing you to chat freely with your devices.

Currently this new payload system is only available on devices running SocketMan v4, but this will be rolling out across the board soon.

To use run your own commands, you just need to start as you always do, by heading into your location within the dashboard.

Once there, click on devices, and then view the device you want to run commands on.

Then, click on the action button in the top right corner and select payloads from the dropdown options.

You’ll then find yourself on a page that resembles a chat screen.

You can type almost any command into the text field at the bottom, and send it to your device. And once that command has been run, it will respond with the output.

In the image above, you can see a few examples of commands you can send. Other commands used to view config files and run tasks etc can be used, but there are limitations with commands that output a constant stream (e.g ping).

This is quite a useful management feature for the more techy orientated users out there.

As always if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, please do get in touch with us!

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