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Power on and off Diskstation with Home Assistant

Turn on Diskstation with Wake On Lan

We can use Wake on Lan to turn of the diskstation by a network message.

Diskstation configuration

First we need to enable Wake on Lan on our diskstation:

  • Login into your Diskstation
  • Go to Control Panel > Hardware & Power > General
  • Under Power Recovery activate Enable WOL on Lan

After that you are able to start your Diskstation over the network. e.g. on a Mac you could run following command in the terminal:

# Install wakeonlan command via brew 
brew install wakeonlan
# Wake up diskstation by using its MAC Address
wakeonlan XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Note: For sending a magic package via wakeonlan you can specify an ip:

-i ip_address
        set the destination IP address
        default: 255.255.255.255 (the limited broadcast address)

This is NOT the ip-address of your device, this is the broadcast address. Your device is identified by the mac address.

Home Assistant Configuration

Now we need to send this magic package from Home Assistant. This can be done with the Wake on LAN integration. It allows to add a switch which sends the packages when it is turned on. We just need to supply the mac address of our diskstation in the configuration. My configuration looks like this:

switch:
  - platform: wake_on_lan
    mac: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
    host: "192.168.179.30"
    name: "Diskstation"
    turn_off:
      service: button.press
      target:
        entity_id: button.diskstation_shutdown

The host parameter contains the ip of the diskstation, so it can check if the diskstation is online or not. For more details see the integration documentation.

Turning off Diskstation

Edit the Entities Card Configuration.

entities:
  - entity: switch.dh_nas02_2
  - entity: sensor.shelly_shplg_s_dbf519_current_consumption
  - entity: switch.dh_nas01
  - entity: sensor.shelly_shplg_s_2021da_current_consumption
  - entity: sensor.shelly_shplg_s_dc4440_current_consumption
show_header_toggle: false
title: Wake On Lan
type: entities

Now you can power on and off your Diskstation with Home Assistant.

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