Wake-on-LAN Server

Quick and dirty implementation of a Wake-on-Lan server that will be hosted in a home network. It was built to bypass the need for a paid service like Google Cloud Functions when waking from outside the local network by using Firebase's free tier.

Commands (power on, or check status of a local computer) are made by the user via the web frontend, and this server aims to process those commands. It traverses the network-address-translation (NAT) layer by using Firebase's real-time database. A simple setup where the server subscribes to changes is used.

See here for more on the Wake-on-LAN standard.

Running

Note

This script depends on Python version >= 3.11.

python3 ./wol_server.py <service_acc_cert_path>

Where service_acc_cert_path must be substituted for a path to the Google service account secrets file.

Testing

"Someday I'll get around to this" 😭