AWOL
AWOL manages a list of computers and allows you to send a Wake-on-LAN packet to each to wakeup the computer from a sleep state remotely. Wakeup on Lan must be supported by the computer and enabled.
For each computer you enter a name, MAC address, broadcast IP address, and port to send the packet on.
You must be connect to a local network for the wakeup on lan packet to be sent. Broadcast over the 3G network is not currently supported.
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In trying to install this app I was confronted with a compatibility issue that I found extremely odd for this app. I was told I could not install this app because I did not have a mic. Is this a quirk in the programming or am I missing something.
That’s very odd and definitely shouldn’t be happening. The only hardware requirements I selected via iTunes were an iPhone or iPod Touch 2nd generation, which I believe is the default option. And in the app itself I check for a Wi-Fi connection as required by Apple.
What device do you have? Perhaps this is a side effect of the device requirements.
I’ll search the web and apple docs tonight to see if this has occurred before. Thanks.
I believe this may be related to requiring an iPod Touch 2nd gen. I’ve changed the requirements in iTunes to allow a first generation device. I’m not sure how long it will take to propagate out to the main store, but I would try it again tonight or tomorrow.
I have WOL successfully working on my machines using a WOL client in windows. Trying to use AWOL w/o any success. What PORT do I select? My MAC and IP are identical to what I setup in my windows based WOL client.
Typically you use port 0, 7, or 9. I default to 9.
What type of IP address are you using? For example, my machine is at 192.168.2.118 so I’m using a broadcast address of 192.168.2.255.
What OS is the sleeping machine running? I’ve been testing against a Mac, but I can’t think of any reason it shouldn’t work with Windows or Linux. Let me know what OS and version you’re trying to wake up and I’ll find a machine to test again. Sorry for the trouble!
Changing from my true ip to .255 fixed the problem. Why would you use that instead of sending directly to the machines ip?
Good, I was worried for a bit as mine had stopped working, but that was because a repair to my Mac involved a new motherboard and I forgot to update it to my new MAC address.
Since the machine is in sleep mode you can’t use a direct IP address, there may not be one assigned. The NIC listens for broadcast packets on it’s subnet including it’s MAC address in the right format.
I could modify the program to allow entering the IP and subnet mask so I can derive the broadcast address, but I decided to just allow entering it directly.