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Show HN: Wake-On-LAN without public IP or port-forwarding
- gue5t 12y agoMAC addresses are bitstrings typically written in hex and should not be interpreted in a case-sensitive manner. You should also accept colons, dashes, or nothing as the byte separator.
- jeffijoe 12y agoI'll look into that.
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- fragmede 12y agoYou should offer up an SD card image to download. (No, I'm not going to tweet that at you.)
- jeffijoe 12y agoWill work on that. (Why was that last line necessary?)
- peterwwillis 12y agoSo basically OpenWRT + "wol" package + google app engine. Write a google app engine script that takes a 'wake up machine' html form, write a bash script on OpenWRT that queries the script regularly, and run the "wol" client when you get a response. Seems useful.
- jeffijoe 12y agoI was experimenting with new technologies for this project - yes, to get the core functionality sure this would work. In this case, I wanted to make something more... complete. The communication with the device uses websockets, not polling.
- dmarlow 12y agoYou can also use http://www.smscmd.net/ http://www.smscmd.net/ to connect your raspberry pi/arduino/<insert device> using MQTT and then you can wake your device using SMS.
- jeffijoe 12y agoDoes it give you an online|offline status indication of your device? Smart app though!