wakey – manage and wake devices using Wake-on-LAN

wakey is a terminal user interface for maintaining a collection of network devices and waking them with Wake-on-LAN.

Instead of repeatedly entering MAC addresses at the command line, systems can be stored with identifying information and selected from an interactive interface. Devices can also be organised into groups, which is useful when several computers normally need to be started together.

wakey provides status information as well as sending magic packets. Its keyboard-driven interface makes it a useful middle ground between a basic command-line packet sender and a browser-based Wake-on-LAN management application.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Create, edit and delete stored network devices.
• Store a name, description, MAC address and IP address for each device.
• Organise related machines into groups.
• Wake an individual device from the terminal interface.
• Wake all devices belonging to a group.
• Check whether configured devices are online using ping.
• Uses SQLite to store device and group information.
• Provides keyboard-driven navigation suitable for terminal workflows.
• Supports both Vim-style movement keys and conventional arrow keys.
• Keeps Wake-on-LAN administration within a single interactive terminal application rather than requiring separate configuration files and commands.

Website: github.com/jonathanruiz/wakey
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Developer: Jonathan Ruiz
License: MIT License

wakey is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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