WOL

Wake up your computer from you mobile anywhere in the world.

- Extremely low bandwidth usage. Even if your data plan is pay per used based you won’t feel WOL usage at it only sends a few UDP packets to wake up your computer.

- Support multiple devices to wake up

- Support access point selection for each device so you can use it locally and turn your computer on by connecting to your home Wi-Fi.

More details on the WOL Help Page.

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WOL Help page

Disclaimer: Waking up your computer remotely requires configuration of various devices (network card, router, firewall …) depending on your configuration. WOL is a working application and CodeFlakes cannot be held responsible for any malfunction due to bad configuration. That been said, here are some tips to help you with the configuration process.

 

PC configuration

1 – Wake On LAN is disabled on most computer by default. Make sure this feature is enabled in your BIOS

2 – Make sure that Wake On LAN is also enabled in your network card driver settings.

3 – If you have a router/internet box/NAT you most probably have to add a port forwarding entry to tell the router how to broadcast the wake up packet to your local machine. WOL use port 7 so your have to add an entry like this:

ServiceName	FromPort	Protocol	ToPort	ToIP
WOL	7	UDP	7	192.168.1.10

Where 192.168.1.10 is replaced by the local IP of your machine.

Here is a screenshot of an actual router configuration. In this example the user didn’t specified the IP of the destination device since this router support the broadcast feature (255 = anyone of the 192.168.1.x devices). Be aware that not all routers work the same way and some need you to specify the exact IP of the target computer.

Phone configuration

1 – Create a new device entry from the Option menu –> Devices –> Add

2 – Edit the settings of the new created device by selecting it with the OK/SELECT key.

Name: Access Point: Mac address: Target WAN IP:

Whatever name you want to use to identify your device. The access point you want to use. Probably you data plan access point. Mac address of your network card Your public IP

Note: WOL works with any kind of operating system (Microsoft, Apple, Linux, …) Only help for Windows is available right now.

How to get your MAC address on windows ?

On the Windows computer you which Open a command prompt and type: ipconfig /all. Your MAC address is the “Physical address” field.

How to get your public IP ?

Go to this site: http://www.whatismyip.com/ or this one http://www.ip-adress.com/

Links

Wikipedia page on Wake on LAN if you want the technical juicy details.

Complete guide on how to set up Wake on LAN on your PC.