frail pier
I have my pc powered from a zigbee plug. When i turn off my pc i want to trigger home assistant to turn off the plug when the pc has fully shut down(not replying to ping and power meter on the plug is below a certain wattage).
What is the best/correct way to send a trigger from a windows machine?
I'm currently trying to use the homassistant-api for python to send a trigger. Would i trigger an automation, trigger a helper or something else?
Im fairly new to home assistant.
elder spade
You could use a webhook that's easier than using the api
royal pike
I have my pc powered from a zigbee plug. When i turn off my pc i want to trigger...
why not just trigger on power consumption alone?
frail pier
why not just trigger on power consumption alone?
I tried that but if my pc goes to sleep i end up on a very low power consumption that i cannot really trigger on that reliably and that also makes my icmp ping check not reliable. The most reliable way would be to trigger the automation on a on a signal from the pc.
frail pier
You could use a webhook that's easier than using the api
Is this prefered over the api?
gloomy pier
You could have your PC execute a script immediately prior to shutdown.
https://superuser.com/questions/773651/run-a-script-just-before-shutdown-or-reboot-on-windows-home-edition#773655
That script could be as simple as a curl command to an HA webhook
unborn prawn
I tried that but if my pc goes to sleep i end up on a very low power consumption...
Why not? Just check if it's < 8W for 15s or so.