Wake on LAN in Home Assistant
wake_on_lan
part of Home Assistant since 0.49
Wake on LAN is an official Home Assistant integration for Button, Network and Switch. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Online service
- Installations
- 47,376 (6.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Provides
- Button, Switch
- Maintained by
- @ntilley905
- Python packages
wakeonlan==3.3.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Wake on LAN.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation LG webOS Smart TV - Turn On Action
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 2 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Wake on LAN in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.5.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #166226
- open Reported problem #153257
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Bug fix #169562
- fixed in 2026.5.0 Bug fix #169486
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration