Re: Powering up a PC ATX machine remotely

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,

Thanks.  Is there any simple windows software that you'd recommend for
prodding the remote machine into life? Net Remote and Girder look a bit
OTT for what I need

Cheers
Martin

Dan Ward wrote:
> You need to enable it in your bios first, may be under another name
> thou, like pme. Also check your network adapter settings in windows.
>
> You then tell the device that will be waking your machine the ip or in
> some cases mac address of the machine to be woken.  In my case it is
my
> server, which sends the signal to the htpc.
>
> The device used for waking your machine may be anything that supports
> wol, i.e. pocket pc, server running Girder or Net Remote. Probably
home
> sear, or the irtrans, I think global cache, etc.
>
> I mainly use my server and timed events to start the htpc in the
> morning, and shut it down in the early hours.  I also have my
netremote
> ppc's set up to do it via a button on my appliance pages.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Dan
> Martin Howell wrote:
>
>>I'm interested in this as well - how do I use the wake on LAN
feature to
>>tell the machine to start?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Martin
>>
>>Dan Ward wrote:
>>
>>>Most motherboards support wake over lan, which I use to start
and
>>>restart my HTPC.
>>>
>>>There are some devices such as the irtrans devices that will
issue the
>>>wol command from an ir signal.
>>>
>>>I think it is also possible with a usb-uirt.
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>Shaf Ali wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how to be able to boot up a machine via a
remote
>>>>command ? Similar to having a power strip except that
instead of cutting
>>>>the power I want to be able to boot it up.
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks in advance,
>>>>Shaf
>>>>
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