Home Assistant Add-on: RPC Shutdown

Shutdown Windows machines remotely.

About

Allows you to shut down and Windows Computer with a service call from Home Assistant.

Installation

Follow these steps to get the add-on installed on your system:

1. Navigate in your Home Assistant frontend to Supervisor -> Add-on Store.
2. Find the "RPC Shutdown" add-on and click it.
3. Click on the "INSTALL" button.

How to use

In the configuration section, define alias, address and credentials and save the configuration.

1. Start the add-on.
2. Check the add-on log output to see the result.

Configuration

Add-on configuration:

computers:
  - alias: test-pc-1
    address: 192.168.0.1
    credentials: user%password
    delay: 0
    message: Home Assistant is shutting down this PC. This cannot be canceled. Please save your work!
  - alias: test-pc-2
    address: 192.168.0.2
    credentials: user%password
    delay: 0
    message: Home Assistant is shutting down this PC. This cannot be canceled. Please save your work!

Option: computers (required)

A list of computer objects to be able to shutdown from Home-Assistant.

Option: computers.alias (required)

Set an alias for this record, which becomes the name for the input.

Option: computers.address (required)

IP address or NetBIOS name of the computer to be able to shutdown.

Option: computers.credentials (required)

Credentials for logging into the computer. Use a % as the delimiter of username and password.

Option: computers.delay (optional)

A delay (in seconds) before shutting down the computer. This gives a user that happens to be using that computer time to save their work.

Option: computers.message (optional)

Show a custom message on the screen of the computer that will be shutdown.

Home Assistant configuration

Use the following inside Home Assistant service call to use it:

service: hassio.addon_stdin
data:
  addon: core_rpc_shutdown
  input: test-pc

Each line explained:

service: hassio.addon_stdin: Use hassio.addon_stdin service to send data over STDIN to an add-on. data.addon: core_rpc_shutdown: Tells the service to send the command to this add-on. data.input: test-pc: Alias name created for the computer in the add-on configuration, and shuts that one down.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

• The Home Assistant Discord Chat Server.
• The Home Assistant Community Forum.
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

In case you've found a bug, please open an issue on our GitHub.