PsExec integrations

Home Assistant integrations that allow you to run command on remote Windows PC, for example hibernate, that can't do net rpc.

Main info

Component create and run service on remote PC, that execute command. On end of execution service will delete. More info here.

Config

The user must be an administarator. If on remote PC turned on UAC, you need to do one change in registry. Find key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

change value of LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy to dword:00000001

configuration.yaml:

psexec:

scripts.yaml template:

script:
  name_of_your_script:
    sequence:
      - service: psexec.exec
        data:
          encrypt: false
          host: 192.168.1.10 # ip of your PC
          username: user # user name
          password: password # password for user
          command: cmd.exe /c echo Hello World > c:\out.txt # this command create out.txt on root of C:\

Example scenario

You can wake and hibernate your PC remotely. You will this and Wake on Lan integration. In scripts.yaml add :

script:
  desktop_remote_hibernate:
    sequence:
      - service: psexec.exec
        data:
          encrypt: false
          host: 192.168.1.10 # ip of your PC
          username: user # user name
          password: password # password for user
          command: cmd.exe /c start /b shutdown.exe /h # this command will hibernate PC

switch:
  - platform: wake_on_lan
    name: Switch name
    mac: AB:CD:EF:GH:IK:LM
    host: 192.168.1.10
    turn_off:
      - service: script.desktop_remote_hibernate

This switch will be wake your PC on toggle ON and hibernate on toggle OFF.

Installation

Manually copy psexec folder from latest release to custom_components folder in your config folder.

Credits

Original posted by AlexxIT (source). I'm just create repository.