ATX Wake on Lan

KVM
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I’ve just installed my ATX board, confusing where the wires went and getting my fat fingers into tight spaces.

It works great first time, no issues, love it.

Now a weird question……Does the RM10 support or “hear” WoL notifications. i.e. could it be made so that if I fired a WoL request to the RM10, it acted as a proxy and pressed the short press option on the power ATX board. A sort of WoL passthrough facility.

I always used to hibernate my PCs and now I will be powering off, but I liked the Alexa skills to Wake on Lan via voice control which Hibernate supports but power off doesn’t obviously.

i.e. Alexa turn on media server……Alexa skill sends WoL packet to RM10, RM10 recognises and activates power (short press) on ATX board.

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no…….

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Why don’t use wol command directly to atx board? If you have Ethernet connection and mb and integrated Ethernet chip supports wol, you can send a wol packet to your PC and power on it. You should configure PC bios to hear wol packets and configure Ethernet driver in your os too, but is doable…

Also you can check additional hardware for your KVM, that enables that: finger not or add-on board… look at gl-inet web page.

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No, not on the ATX board please.

WoL is just a packet, if they want to implement it the packet needs to be sent over intranet, from comet to pc.

But the concept fail if the kvm is on a different network, but that is a limitation of WoL.

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An easier thing is a WiFi switch, with the bios configured to boot on power restore.

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I have all that setup, been using it for years. I use WoL all the time when I’m at home. But when I’m at my house overseas, I prefer to shut everything down at my other house fully unless needed. My PC sits in Hibernate to WoL as and when I need to use it. I just have to log onto the VPN and send a packet or log onto KVM to wake it up. If I’m sitting in front of my TV overseas and just want to turn on the PC, I’d rather not go to the hassle of that. It’s just a personal preference not really a limiting feature. It is more just power off (which is ATX board) vs Hibernate for WoL. Not a problem, it was just a brainwave for me about how I could best use it to suit my scenario.

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