Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

Dear fediverse, I need a recommendation. I've got a PC that I need to be able to turn on/off remotely. I know about WOL packets since I was 12 (I'm 40 now), but setting them up seems ridiculous. I do wonder if in all THESE MANY years has nothing simpler been created?

All it needs to do is to turn on/off my PC.

If nothing exists to do this in a simple manner, I might use my free laptop just to send the WOL packet internally through Zerotier. But keeping an additional computer on just to wake up another seems like defeating the purpose of what I'm trying to do.

(unless I get a pi-zero and do it with that one)

#askfedi #simplicity

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Show threadMaikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸7h ago

e.g.: if 2nd computer is off, (electricity went away for example) then I'm fucked.

Let alone, keeping then 2 computers on when what I'm tryign to do is to save energy.

I use my BigPC for plenty of stuff but keeping it on all the time seems absurd when I'm not.

Show threadChaotic Unicorn7h ago
@maikel i have two methods currently in use:
- a raspberry pi it's always on and wakes up my workstation at a fixed time on weekdays (could be done with a physical button or ssh also)
- an esp32 listens on port 80 and i can send an HTTP GET to make it power-on another workstation. (this one is overkill, but that old motherboard has a really buggy/unreliable WOL)
Show threadChaotic Unicorn7h ago
@maikel here's crappy video of the esp32 in action, it was more a troll than a solution but it turned out to work great.
Show thread谢文投6h ago
Makes me remember the other day when mom asked why for all the techs you just can't turn on a computer remotely and that question caught me