Wake on Lan

[ginganinja]

Hi All,

Was struggling with performing WakeOnLan functionality from within Indigo and found something I think is worth sharing.

It starts with the following piece of software, that is my favorite price, free!!!

http://www.readpixel.com/wakeonlan/

Download and install this on your Mac, now use their client software to test and troubleshoot your wake on lan functionality.

Once you get it working, you can then use Apple Script to call this app from within an Indigo Action Group.

Sample script:

tell application "WakeOnLan"
wakeup "192.168.4.135"
end tell

The other nice thing about this software is that I did a network sniff and basically the approach is to try about 6-7 different types of WakeOnLan signals (wonderful thing about standards is that there is so many to choose from). So your chance of getting it working is quite good.

Let me know if you have any questions/concerns, would be glad to help out.

[DaveL17]

Interesting. I don't have a need for this, but thanks for sharing.

[kw123]

here a python version. No need to install anything
You can put this into an action script and replace MAC number with your device number and the IP number to your BroadCast # likely ends with .255 (192.168.0.255 etc)

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import socket

def sendWakewOnLan(MAC,ipN):
	data = ''.join(['FF' * 6, MAC.replace(':', '') * 16])
	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
	sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
	sock.sendto(data.decode("hex"), (ipN, 9))

ipBC= "192.168.1.255"
mac = "12:34:56:78:AB:CD"
sendWakewOnLan(mac, ipBC)

Karl

[ginganinja]

Thanks Karl!

Agreed, I would rather call it straight from an action group. I'll give this a try and let you know how it works out.

RS

[kw123]

Ps. Fingscan as well as UniFi plugins have ping and wol as options to manage up/ downs of ip devices build in.


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[ginganinja]

Karl,

I test out your script and it worked great.

Thanks for the tip.

I will look into the other plugin's as well, but the script is pretty easy/fast.

RS

[ginganinja]

Turns out that i already had winremote plugin installed and totally missed that it has wakeonlan, am using that now.

[whmoorejr]

here a python version. ....

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import socket

def sendWakewOnLan(MAC,ipN):
	data = ''.join(['FF' * 6, MAC.replace(':', '') * 16])
	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
	sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
	sock.sendto(data.decode("hex"), (ipN, 9))

ipBC= "192.168.1.255"
mac = "12:34:56:78:AB:CD"
sendWakewOnLan(mac, ipBC)

Did something change? None of my old WOL scripts run anymore. Now I just get an error.

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   Action Group                    Wake On LAN - 2nd Attempt
   Script Error                    action group "Wake On LAN - 2nd Attempt" embedded script error:
   Script Error                    'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
   Script Error                    Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

     embedded script, line 11, at top level
     embedded script, line 7, in sendWakewOnLan
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

[kw123]

It’s python3

Will post a py3 version this weekend


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[kw123]

Sorry I am out of town. Will have to wait until Tuesday next week.
Just became grandfather


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[DaveL17]

Congratulations Grandpa!


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[kw123]

This should work with py3

Karl

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import socket
import struct


def sendWakewOnLan(MAC,ipN):
	mac = MAC.replace(":","")
	sendData = bytes.fromhex("FF" * 6 + mac * 16)  #  <---- changed from py2
	sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
	sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
	sock.sendto(sendData, (ipN, 9))

ipBC= "192.168.1.255"
mac = "12:34:56:78:AB:AB"
sendWakewOnLan(mac, ipBC)

[whmoorejr]

This should work with py3

Karl

Worked like a charm. More importantly, how's that grandbaby?

[kw123]

Mom and baby are doing fine. As they live in Chicago and we in Vienna it will take some time before we see them.


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