Do do the maintenance on my htpc I use RealVNC. So why stand up and switch the htpc on. There must be a way to do that with software.
Just send a magic packet :arrow: Wake on LAN (WOL) :!:
(Requirements: ATX power supply and wol capable LAN adapter/mainboard)
How to do that?
Get a wol program. Here's my recommendation:
PowerOff 3.0.1.3
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html
Start PowerOff and select the action "Wake-On-LAN". You have to set the remote computer. In the dialog you fill in IP adress and subnet mask. With the settings you can lookup the MAC adress of the LAN card in the htpc. Execute, that's it...
You can also use command switches with poweroff. Just put a shortcut to poweroff on your desktop and add these switches:
C:\Program Files\PowerOff\poweroff.exe wol -ip 192.168.0.1 -subnet 255.255.255.0 -mac 123456789012
(For 123456789012 enter the MAC adress of your LAN adapter.)
With that shortcut you switch on your htpc with just one click...
You can find some other programs here:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wakeonlan/
How do I find out the MAC adress?
At the command prompt type ipconfig /all. The pysical (MAC) adress is displayed in the list.
Just send a magic packet :arrow: Wake on LAN (WOL) :!:
(Requirements: ATX power supply and wol capable LAN adapter/mainboard)
How to do that?
Get a wol program. Here's my recommendation:
PowerOff 3.0.1.3
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html
Start PowerOff and select the action "Wake-On-LAN". You have to set the remote computer. In the dialog you fill in IP adress and subnet mask. With the settings you can lookup the MAC adress of the LAN card in the htpc. Execute, that's it...
You can also use command switches with poweroff. Just put a shortcut to poweroff on your desktop and add these switches:
C:\Program Files\PowerOff\poweroff.exe wol -ip 192.168.0.1 -subnet 255.255.255.0 -mac 123456789012
(For 123456789012 enter the MAC adress of your LAN adapter.)
With that shortcut you switch on your htpc with just one click...
You can find some other programs here:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wakeonlan/
How do I find out the MAC adress?
At the command prompt type ipconfig /all. The pysical (MAC) adress is displayed in the list.