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.
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