wol — Wake-on-LAN CLI

A command-line tool to send Wake-on-LAN magic packets on Windows.

Installation

pip install .

For development:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Usage

Wake a machine by MAC address

wol AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

Wake by IP (resolved via ARP table)

wol 192.168.1.100

Wake by saved alias

wol my-pc

Manage aliases

wol alias add my-pc AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
wol alias add server 11:22:33:44:55:66 --ip 10.0.0.1
wol alias list
wol alias remove my-pc

Options

Option	Short	Default	Description
--port	-p	9	UDP port
--broadcast	-b	255.255.255.255	Broadcast address
--interface	-i		Source IP to bind
--count	-c	1	Number of packets
--interval		0.0	Seconds between packets
--version			Show version

Supported MAC formats

• AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF (colon-separated)
• AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF (hyphen-separated)
• AABB.CCDD.EEFF (Cisco dot notation)
• AABBCCDDEEFF (bare hex)

Running tests

pytest --cov=wol