I tried the named pipe solution and got some permission issues like others.
Solved this by changing user nobody by root and the same for nogroup.
It’s working great now and this allow me to switch on my NAS from anywhere through remote and secured access to Home Assistant.
This might give my family access to pictures archives at any time, without the need to keep the NAS constantly ON.
Thanks a lot Peter.
Great thought! The service definition was throwing errors in my setup for some reason, but creating a script such as the below and calling that one as ExecStart did the trick for me:
#!/bin/bash
pipe=/virtual/other/homeassistant/config/wolpipe
remac=“^([a-fA-F0-9]{2}:){5}[a-fA-F0-9]{2}$” # regex for mac address
while true
do
if read line <$pipe; then
if [[ “$line” =~ $re ]]; then
wakeonlan -i 192.168.2.99 $line # where 192.168.2.99 is the dummy target IP of my wol forwarder between subnets
fi
fi
done