fritzWOL

A small text-based tool that connects to a FRITZ!Box — on your local network or remotely through myFritz — lists the devices on your network and lets you pick one to turn on via Wake-on-LAN.

It talks to the router over AVM's TR-064 interface using fritzconnection.

                       FritzBox network devices
┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ # ┃ Name           ┃ IP             ┃ MAC               ┃ Status    ┃
┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 1 │ Gaming-PC      │ 192.168.178.42 │ 1C:1B:0D:AA:BB:CC │ ○ offline │
│ 2 │ NAS            │ 192.168.178.20 │ 00:11:22:33:44:55 │ ○ offline │
│ 3 │ fritz.box      │ 192.168.178.1  │ 34:31:C4:AA:BB:CC │ ● online  │
│ 4 │ Living-Room-TV │ 192.168.178.60 │ B8:27:EB:11:22:33 │ ● online  │
│ 5 │ Office-Laptop  │ 192.168.178.31 │ 3C:22:FB:44:55:66 │ ● online  │
└───┴────────────────┴────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────┘

Select device number to wake (q to quit):

Requirements

• Python 3.12+.
• A FRITZ!Box user with the "FRITZ!Box Settings" permission.
• The target device must support Wake-on-LAN and have it enabled in its own network adapter / BIOS-UEFI settings, and be known to the FritzBox (it appears under Home Network > Network).
• For remote access: an active myFritz account and enabled internet access (Internet > MyFRITZ! Account).

Install

Install it from PyPI:

pip install fritzwol         # or: uv tool install fritzwol / pipx install fritzwol

This puts a fritzwol command on your PATH. To install straight from GitHub without cloning first:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/jesperschlegel/fritzWOL.git

Or from a local checkout:

uv tool install .          # or: pipx install .

For local development instead of a global install:

uv sync
uv run fritzwol            # or: uv run fritzwol.py

Usage

Interactive (you will be prompted for anything not supplied):

fritzwol

It prints the known devices (offline ones first, as the usual wake candidates) and lets you pick one by number.

Remote access through myFritz — pass the HTTPS remote-access port your FRITZ!Box exposes (Internet > Permit Access > FRITZ!Box Services, often 443 or a custom port):

fritzwol --address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.myfritz.net --user myuser --port 443

The default port (49443, the LAN TLS port) only applies to local access. For remote myFritz access you normally need to set --port to the HTTPS port configured on the box.

Local access on your home network:

fritzwol --address fritz.box --no-tls --user myuser

Just list devices without waking anything:

fritzwol --list

Show only offline devices (the usual wake candidates):

fritzwol --offline-only

Wake a specific MAC address directly (no menu):

fritzwol --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55

Configuration via environment variables

Instead of flags you can set:

The password is prompted for securely if it is not provided.

How it works

1. Connects with fritzconnection (use_tls=True for myFritz).
2. Reads the host list via the Hosts TR-064 service (get_hosts_info).
3. Sends X_AVM-DE_WakeOnLANByMACAddress for the chosen device's MAC.

A woken device may take a moment to appear as online.