I have an HAOS-VM running on a machine attached to my router via cable, and another (wifi attached) machine that I want to WoL from HA.
Apparently, my router does not forward WoL packets from wired ethernet to wifi, so I just plugged in a usb-wifi dongle and connected HAOS via the dongle - wifi works, no problem.
WoL in general also works, I can wake the machine up from my MacBook without a problem. I can also use the very same dongle on a Debian desktop to send WoL packets.
However, doing it from HA fails. My configuration.yaml looks like this:
wake_on_lan:
switch:
- platform: wake_on_lan
name: wake_<machine>
mac: <mac>
I tried deactivating the KVM brigde, so that the VM really only connects via wifi, but no changes here either.
There are no errors in any logs, so it doesn’t look like it’s failing per se.
To me it looks almost like the packet is send to nirvana, but there’s no way to configure the network interface in the WoL platform either.
It’s USB pass through, so there shouldn’t be any filtering.
Wireshark could be an idea, I’ll check that tomorrow.
I realize that I forgot to answer the question! The wake_on_lan integration has a broadcast_address parameter. It doesn’t explicitly let you pick a network interface, but it might be worth trying to set it to the broadcast address of the Wi-Fi subnet. Then the routing table would ensure that the packet goes out on the correct interface.
I second the packet capture idea. Did you remove the virtual nic in the vm or just disconnect it? I’d you just disconnected it the packets were likely still directed to it as it’s the first network device.
I suspect you’re going to need to use a command line service to do a wol command as the integration doesn’t work let you pick a nic.