pineappleDec 4

Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

https://lemmy.ml/post/39835318

Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. - Lemmy

So I want to setup a remote backup location at my parents house although they are very mindful about there electricity usage and environmental impact (and so am I) so I don’t want to have to have a pc always on when it doesn’t need to be. Is it possible to setup remote Wake-on-lan so I can schedule my homelab at my place to wake up the server at my parents house and start a backup like once a week, I want to do this in a secure fashion as well so ideally no port forwarding, I currently use cloudflare tunnels for my home network. Are there any other options or do you have a similar setup at your place?

Show threadcmnyboDec 4
You could use a very low power computer that’s always on like a Raspberry PI Zero W to send the WoL packet to the backup computer. It only uses about 1 watt. Some routers have the ability to send a WoL packet as well.
Show threadJustEnoughDucksDec 4

You can even use an ESP32 or similar since it just has to perform 1 tiny function.

Getting an WT32-ETH01 knockoff dev board for 15€ or PoE for 25€ and uses <300mW with the wireless modem off. You could even just use a WiFi module for 8€ if you don’t want something wired.

registry.platformio.org/libraries/…/WakeOnLan

There is already an wakeonlan library to generate a packet very easily.

You can even do it in pseudocode with ESPHome if you have HomeAssistant

community.home-assistant.io/t/…/617595

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Show threadWhyJiffieDec 4

Then VPN in, send a signal to the esp using one of various methods to tell it to send the packet.

this sounds like it requires another computer already turned on

Show threadfaercol
Depends on your hardware. My routers can serve as a Wireguard serveur, so no need for a computer for that part
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Show threadWhyJiffieDec 4
the only router firmware I have seen be able to do that is openwrt, and maybe mikrotik. none of these are common though, but if you can do this then yes this is a pretty efficient solution