I setup my mediacenter to go to sleep (S3) after 20 minutes of inactivity. To wake it up again there are several methods that can be used:


Method 1: MCE Remote
I never use the remote to get the mediacenter to go in stand-by, but I use it quite often to wake it up.

Method 2: Computer in your home network
At home I use a shortcut to a batch file to send a magic packet. This is has the advantage that with one click a computer wakes up instead of first starting up a smal program. here you can read how to do it:

Method 3: Computer outside your home network (internet)
Similar to method but you have to forward port 9 (UDP-Protocol) in your router to your local IP address or broadcast IP address (e.g.: 192.168.1.255). Forwarding to the Broadcast IP address makes it possible to wake several computers individually over one external port.


Method 4: Xbox 360 extender
To have your Xbox360 wake up your mediacenter automatically when you start the mce extender. You have to have the option "Wake on Ping" in your network card driver set to enabled. If my mediacenter and Xbox 360 are both sleeping. I only have to push the green button and both wake up, and connect.

Method 5: Mobile phone (internet)
A very useful application to wake up a computer remotely in your network using your mobile phone's internet connection is  "WakeOnLan" and can be downloaded here .
I personally use it for instance to turn on Mediacenter so I can remotely program it using webguide3.

For the program to work port 9 (UDP-Protocol) has to be forwarded in your router to your local IP address or broadcast IP address (see: method 3)



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A limitation of the application is that it only remembers the information needed to wake up one computer. If you want to be able to wake up more than one computer individually, you have to manually modify the wake-up data. To overcome this problem I modified the jar-file to have a different name in the phone. In this way you can install it more than once under a different name (e.g. name of the computer to wake)

You can do this in the following way:

- Extract all the files in the WakeOnLan.jar -file using winrar and open the file "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF "with notepad.

- Replace: "MIDlet-Name: WakeOnLan" with "MIDlet-Name: Whatever" and save the file.

- Open the jar-file using winrar and drag and drop the modified MANIFEST.MF file to replace the old file. Rename the WakeOnLan.jar file. And send it to you phone trough bluetooth.

- If you want another icon for the application you can edit and replace the file WakeOnLan.png in the same way.

Thank you!

Setting "Wake on Ping" to enabled works great.

I can now let my MCE machine go into S3 standby, and my 360 wakes it up with no problems.

Thanks,

Mash

To have your Xbox360 wake up your mediacenter automatically when you start the mce extender. You have to have the option "Wake on Ping" in your network card driver set to enabled.

Has anybody tried this on Vista? I'm currently running RC2 and it seems that the power management options appear on their own tab. My D975XBX "BadAxe" motherboard has an Intel gigabit NIC. I've found posts alluding to (some) Intel cards having a "Wake on directed packet" option, but I haven't seen anything like that on my Vista setup.

 

To have your Xbox360 wake up your mediacenter automatically when you start the mce extender. You have to have the option "Wake on Ping" in your network card driver set to enabled.

Has anybody tried this on Vista? I'm currently running RC2 and it seems that the power management options appear on their own tab. My D975XBX "BadAxe" motherboard has an Intel gigabit NIC. I've found posts alluding to (some) Intel cards having a "Wake on directed packet" option, but I haven't seen anything like that on my Vista setup.

-nkidd

To have your Xbox360 wake up your mediacenter automatically when you start the mce extender. You have to have the option "Wake on Ping" in your network card driver set to enabled.

Has anybody tried this on Vista? I'm currently running RC2 and it seems that the power management options appear on their own tab. My D975XBX "BadAxe" motherboard has an Intel gigabit NIC. I've found posts alluding to (some) Intel cards having a "Wake on directed packet" option, but I haven't seen anything like that on my Vista setup.

-nkidd

p.s. I don't have MCE2005 to verify that my rig works under that setup.

Waking up a MCE PC with the Xbox 360 Extender doesn't require anything special in the advanced settings. The Xbox 360 sends a Wake on LAN (WOL) packet when it's "Finding Media Center PC"

On the "Power Saving" tab of your network adapter properties, check the boxes to "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby" and "Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standby" This will enable WOL but prevent the computer from waking up from just ANY random ping.