Device with Wake on LAN enabled is always active

[bewee]

Hi there,

First of all: Pretty great add-on! I really love how you use ARP instead of just pinging devices regularly.
However, my PC gets detected active all the time (all other devices work as expected). After a bit of trial and error, it seems to me that Wake on LAN is the problem (plugging out the LAN cable manually brings the presence detection thing to inactive state).
I guess this makes kind of sense. Anyway, it would be great if I could detect when my PC is offline. A ping is not successful when it is shutdown, so I think this could be used to detect activity of WoL-enabled devices?
Do you think it would be a good idea to add an option for regular ping polling instead of the current (pretty amazing!!!) approach to this add-on? Or should I rather aim for making a new add-on, or try to use some add-on for executing bash commands? Or am I probably just doing something completely stupid and this behaviour should not occur at all?🙈

Regards,
Benedikt

[flatsiedatsie]

Hey Benedikt

The only thing this would work well is if you could set arp or ping on a per device basis. If the entire addon was set to "ping" mode, then your android/iphone mobile devices would likely not show up consistently anymore. Arp is used because it works best for mobile devices. Most people care about knowing if mobile phones are on the network.

Why not just disable wake on lan on your desktop?

[bewee]

Hi @flatsiedatsie

The only thing this would work well is if you could set arp or ping on a per device basis.

Yes, that would be great!

Why not just disable wake on lan on your desktop?

Because I often need to turn it on remotely😅

I have not much experience with Python, but will try to give it a go!