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If you don't want to run your machine 24/7 (whether for electrical consumption, environmental, noise, etc reasons), I wrote an ssh proxy [1] that will send WOL

If you don't want to run your machine 24/7 (whether for electrical consumption, environmental, noise, etc reasons), I wrote an ssh proxy [1] that will send WOL packets to a target machine and hold your connection until its alive. I then configured debian-autoshutdown [2] to turn the machine off if there's no traffic on ssh after 15 minutes. This way I just ssh into my machine (whether via antigravity on my laptop or termius on my phone) and within 30 or so seconds its awake, no physical button presses needed. I documented the whole flow in more detail on my blog [3]. I'm now working on an improvement called machine on proxy (or mop) that will allow me to start Proxmox VMs instead of physical machines, so I can let gemini-cli run wild and if it decides to wipe the entire hard drive I can restore from a snapshot. [1] https://github.com/simonamdev/ssh-wol-proxy https://github.com/simonamdev/ssh-wol-proxy [2] https://github.com/mnul/debian-autoshutdown https://github.com/mnul/debian-autoshutdown [3] https://www.simonam.dev/ssh-wol-proxy/ https://www.simonam.dev/ssh-wol-proxy/

LeonM 9mo ago
I do the same. I can SSH into my router at home (which is on 24/7), then issue a WOL request to my dev machine to turn it on. You don't even have to fully shut down you dev machine, you can allow it to go into stand-by. For that it needs to be wired by cable to LAN, and configured to leave the NIC powered on on stand-by. You can then wake up the device remotely via a WOL magic packet. Maybe this is possible with WLAN too, but I have never tried. Also, you don't need a Tailscale or other VPN account. You can just use SSH + tunneling, or enable a VPN on your router (and usually enjoy hardware acceleration too!). I happen to have a static IP at home, but you can use a dynamic DNS client on your router to achieve the same effect.
exographicskip 9mo ago
I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs, Minisforums, and a Mac Studio. At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to sleep/shutdown. Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 )
fittingopposite 9mo ago
Can you do the same to remotely wake up my MacBook on demand via WoL and ssh into it from my phone? What are the security risks?
- purrcat259 9mo ago
  I don't think WOL works over Wi-Fi and whether you can get WOL from a USB ethernet adapter. My proxy doesn't attempt to handle security. Most folks use either Tailscale or some other VPN solution. In my case I use the wireguard server in my router to VPN into home which gives me access to the proxy and consequently to the machine.

LeonM 9mo ago

I do the same. I can SSH into my router at home (which is on 24/7), then issue a WOL request to my dev machine to turn it on. You don't even have to fully shut down you dev machine, you can allow it to go into stand-by. For that it needs to be wired by cable to LAN, and configured to leave the NIC powered on on stand-by. You can then wake up the device remotely via a WOL magic packet. Maybe this is possible with WLAN too, but I have never tried. Also, you don't need a Tailscale or other VPN account. You can just use SSH + tunneling, or enable a VPN on your router (and usually enjoy hardware acceleration too!). I happen to have a static IP at home, but you can use a dynamic DNS client on your router to achieve the same effect.

exographicskip 9mo ago

I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs, Minisforums, and a Mac Studio. At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to sleep/shutdown. Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 )

fittingopposite 9mo ago

Can you do the same to remotely wake up my MacBook on demand via WoL and ssh into it from my phone? What are the security risks?

purrcat259 9mo ago
I don't think WOL works over Wi-Fi and whether you can get WOL from a USB ethernet adapter. My proxy doesn't attempt to handle security. Most folks use either Tailscale or some other VPN solution. In my case I use the wireguard server in my router to VPN into home which gives me access to the proxy and consequently to the machine.