Shutting down remote Windows PC

Hi,

Thought this might be useful.  Here's my script to shutdown a remote Windows based PC.

Firstly you'll need to install a small app call Airytech SwitchOff on the remote machine.

You can get that here: http://www.airytec.com/en/switch-off/   Turn on the remote access feature in that app.

This opens http on port 8000

here's my script for the plugboard:

-- Script to shutdown remote windows PC
-- requires Airytech SwitchOff to be running on remote system
-- http://www.airytec.com/en/switch-off/

-- Registers ShutdownPC service
function init()
  register_target("dbzoo.livebox.ShutdownPC", "shutdown")
end

-- Sends http request to remote PC
function shutdown()
  os.execute("curl http://remoteip:8000/?action=System.Shutdown")
end

Here's my header for GoogleCal:

xap-header
{
target=dbzoo.livebox.ShutdownPC
class=unkown
source=Google
}

Nice thing about this is that it shutdowns all the open apps 'nicely' and then shutdowns the PC.

You can of course just use the app itself to schedule a shutdown....but that's not the point!

Now to figure out how to turn it back on again...myabe I'll just have to use the 'On' button!