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# Home Assistant Add-on: RPC Shutdown
## Installation
Follow these steps to get the add-on installed on your system:
1. Navigate in your Home Assistant frontend to **Supervisor** -> **Add-on Store**.
2. Find the "RPC Shutdown" add-on and click it.
3. Click on the "INSTALL" button.
## How to use
In the configuration section, define alias, address and credentials and save the configuration.
1. Start the add-on.
2. Check the add-on log output to see the result.
## Configuration
Add-on configuration:
```yaml
computers:
- alias: test-pc-1
address: 192.168.0.1
credentials: user%password
delay: 0
message: Home Assistant is shutting down this PC. This cannot be canceled. Please save your work!
- alias: test-pc-2
address: 192.168.0.2
credentials: user%password
delay: 0
message: Home Assistant is shutting down this PC. This cannot be canceled. Please save your work!
```
### Option: `computers` (required)
A list of computer objects to be able to shutdown from Home-Assistant.
### Option: `computers.alias` (required)
Set an alias for this record, which becomes the name for the input.
### Option: `computers.address` (required)
IP address or NetBIOS name of the computer to be able to shutdown.
### Option: `computers.credentials` (required)
Credentials for logging into the computer.
Use a `%` as the delimiter of username and password.
### Option: `computers.delay` (optional)
A delay (in seconds) before shutting down the computer. This gives a user that happens to be using that computer time to save their work.
### Option: `computers.message` (optional)
Show a custom message on the screen of the computer that will be shutdown.
## Home Assistant configuration
Use the following inside Home Assistant service call to use it:
```yaml
service: hassio.addon_stdin
data:
addon: core_rpc_shutdown
input: test-pc
```
Each line explained:
`service: hassio.addon_stdin`: Use hassio.addon_stdin service to send data over STDIN to an add-on.
`data.addon: core_rpc_shutdown`: Tells the service to send the command to this add-on.
`data.input: test-pc`: Alias name created for the computer in the add-on configuration, and shuts that one down.
## Support
Got questions?
You have several options to get them answered:
- The [Home Assistant Discord Chat Server][discord].
- The Home Assistant [Community Forum][forum].
- Join the [Reddit subreddit][reddit] in [/r/homeassistant][reddit]
In case you've found a bug, please [open an issue on our GitHub][issue].
[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io
[issue]: https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/issues
[reddit]: https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant
[repository]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository