Comments on: AWOL

By: Eddie McCreary

Eddie McCreary — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:37:38 +0000

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.

By: UFGrayMatter

UFGrayMatter — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:35:08 +0000

Changing from my true ip to .255 fixed the problem. Why would you use that instead of sending directly to the machines ip?

By: Eddie McCreary

Eddie McCreary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:59:13 +0000

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!

By: UFGrayMatter

UFGrayMatter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:44:04 +0000

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.

By: Eddie McCreary

Eddie McCreary — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:21:33 +0000

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.

By: Eddie McCreary

Eddie McCreary — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:17:05 +0000

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.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:07:06 +0000

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.