Portable Python Projects

Scripted WOL

Now that all the back-end messaging infrastructure is configured, we’re ready to write the Python script that will receive and process the WAKE_PC message from the body of the Pushbullet message. As with all projects, create an empty Git repository to store and version control your project code:

$ git init --bare ~/repository/voicewol.git

$ cd ~/projects/

$ git clone ~/repository/voicewol.git

$ cd voicewol

Using your preferred code editor, create a new Python script called wakeup.py. Use the os.system() function to programmatically execute the wakeonlan xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx command that you successfully tested earlier:

voicewol/wakeup.py

import os

MAC = 'YOUR_COMPUTER_MAC_ADDRESS_GOES_HERE'

os.system('wakeonlan ' + MAC) ...