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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: blueznl on January 16, 2014, 07:31:59 am

Title: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: blueznl on January 16, 2014, 07:31:59 am

There are countless WOL tools, and mine is nothing special I guess. But perhaps it might be useful to someone else.

Situation: I was using a laptop as HTPC client, and have a server downstairs with sleep enables. Obviously, a WOL is required. I was using a script with mcwol but the other users (read: wife and kids) always complained about something not working, strange messages, and things simply didn't look 'right'.

Then I added a bartop, which retrieves some files from the same server. (In fact, all rarely used roms, a bit of video, lots of music and more stuff. Stuff that's often accessed from the bartop.)

For some reason, sending out countless pings before the link was stable caused the wifi adapter in the old laptop (used in the bartop) to lock-up now and again. Once a proper IP has been assigned things work fine...

I've solved it by writing my own little crappy tool. It checks adapter first, then pings a router, sends a wol to the server and then pings the server. All with a little progress bar. Oh. It also creates a desktop shortcut with all parameters set upon request.

Perhaps it is of use to someone else.

More info here: http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/purebasic%2029.htm#7_wakiewakie (http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/purebasic%2029.htm#7_wakiewakie)
Download here: http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/wakiewakie.zip (http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/wakiewakie.zip)

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: Howard_Casto on January 16, 2014, 01:29:25 pm

Clarification:  Just in case anyone would be confused, WOL = Wake on Lan.  ;)

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: blueznl on January 17, 2014, 03:48:50 am

Duh!  :-\ I guess I should have mentioned that...

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: gonzo90017 on February 17, 2014, 11:17:46 pm

Is it just me or is wakiewakie.zip just a 0 byte file?

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 18, 2014, 02:08:54 am

Nah it seems to be there.  Refresh your cache and try again.

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: blueznl on February 18, 2014, 02:57:20 am

Well, actually, it seems the archive was there, but it wasn't containing what it should. I've just reupped it, and now it should be okay.

Drop me a line if it's still empty.

Title: Re: Wakiewakie - little WOL tool
Post by: blueznl on February 18, 2014, 05:12:30 pm

Update v1.11x:

- added a led to indicate autorun status
- added a small button to use the server mac from a successful ping
- fixed the empty archive (oops!)