HOW TO SETUP OPENREMOTE TO SHUTDOWN A PC?

HOW TO SETUP OPENREMOTE TO SHUTDOWN A PC?
Cyril Stauber

On Jun 01, 2016 16:40

Hi to the OR community!

I am a total newbie with OR.

I succeeded to setup and perform a Wake On LAN with Openremote, which I'm very happy with.

Now I would like to perform a shutdown of a PC (fixed IP, windows 10).

The PC is on the same LAN than the Raspberry Pi (fixed IP) running the OR server.

I am using my android phone for the interface.

I tried to find some clues on how to setup a shutdown of a PC with OR.

I am still unable to find any tutorial on how to perform this.

So I am turning my search to this forum, hoping somebody can help me.

There is the Windows Shutdown command line instruction that can be used across a network.

If you can get that working, it should be easy enough to get OpenRemote to perform a shell command.
However, there is the minor detail that you're running OR on a Linux OS, rather than another Windows machine.

That said, if you can configure a .sh script to shutdown the Windows machine, you can call that from OpenRemote.

Thanks again for your answer.

The shell script that I could call from OR might be the right way to perform the remote shutdown.

I'm building my script accordingly to the shutdown terminal command I tested and that succeded.

The terminal command is: sudo net rpc shutdown /s -f -I IPADDRESS -U USERNAME%PASSWORD

Prior to that you need to install SAMBA packages: sudo apt-get install samba-common-bin

I'll post a script example so everyone can do it.