PokyPow

Remote shutdown and start you PC/server with Home Assistant.

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Just connect your power, reset and power led front panel connector to appropriate pin pairs, power the PokyPow via USB-C or an internal USB2.0 header. Now you can turn on/off your PC and check if it is running via Home Assistant.

Use cases

• Hide your PC in a closet or on a shelf without the need to press the actual button. You can just connect any other button via home assistant
• Setup automation based on time, motion or the moon phase, or whatever you like to power on your PC
• No funky magic packets anymore with flaky wake on LAN (never worked for me)
• No addons with admin access (password) to your Windows PC
• Add voice commands via Home Assistant to Google Assistant

Project Documentation

You can find all product documentation, related blog post on my dedicated PokyPow Documentation.

Developer Docs

Build:

docker run --rm --privileged -v "${PWD}":/config -it ghcr.io/esphome/esphome:2026.1.2 compile ESPHome/pokypow.yaml