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Posted by Season BubbleGirl - BubbleGirl on March 26, 2006, 11:37 pm
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I have severe allergies and so use my desktop computer through a glass =
panel. At the moment I need someone to turn it on for me. However, I'd =
like to buy a part for my PC so I can turn it on with a remote or =
something similar instead. Can this be done? Our regular TV remotes work =
through the glass panel so something INFA-RED could work also. Could my =
Pocket PC be of help?
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What prices do they start at? Where can I get them?
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Season BubbleGirl
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Posted by Jochen Schmid on March 27, 2006, 1:46 pm
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On 2006-03-27 06:37 CEST, Season BubbleGirl - BubbleGirl.net wrote:
> I have severe allergies and so use my desktop computer through a glass
> panel. At the moment I need someone to turn it on for me. However, I'd
> like to buy a part for my PC so I can turn it on with a remote or
> something similar instead. Can this be done? Our regular TV remotes work
> through the glass panel so something INFA-RED could work also.
You can buy a remote controlled power socket. Here in Germany they are
available in electronic stores or do-it-yourself stores; sometimes
even in supermarkets. They are usually working with radio signals.
Then you have to check if you PC has an configuration option in the
BIOS settings which is named "Boot On Power Return" or similar.
If you switch on your PC with the remote control it would not be
necessary to push the built-in power switch, it will just boot when
you turn on the power by remote control.
> What prices do they start at? Where can I get them?
Usually about 30 Euros.
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Posted by WhiteStarLine on March 30, 2006, 6:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options HI Bubble Girl,
Not sure how technically literate you are but all over the world a lot
of organisations have their work PCs powered on remotely using the WOL
setting (Wake on LAN), in order ot do maintenance and software
installations. I've not had to do this at home, but 5 minutes searching
for scripts to do this suggests to me that you can do it with equipment
costing practically nothing, assuming you already have a PDA. You need
a hub, a compact flash ethernet card (or wireless card) in the PDA and
a LAN card (NIC) in the PC. Plus some free utilities on your PDA such
as vxUtil. Alternatively, buy a really old, cheap laptop that does not
give you allergies and use it to wake up the main PC.
You should be able to power on the PC using a PDA or any device that
has a wireless or wired connection. When you send a packet with the IP
address and MAC address of the PC, if WOL has been enbabled in the
BIOS, then it will wake up.
The beauty of this is that it will cost almost nothing. The downside is
that you need some technical expertise, but if you have this or have
someone prepared to help, then it should not be difficult. Here's a web
site that describes what to do:
http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto-2.html#ss2.1.
Here's another that gives you a script to do it, but your PDA may not
necessarily support
scripting:.http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=880&ScriptType=vbscript
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Posted by Kyler Laird on April 2, 2006, 9:17 am
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>Not sure how technically literate you are but all over the world a lot
>of organisations have their work PCs powered on remotely using the WOL
>setting (Wake on LAN), in order ot do maintenance and software
>installations.
It's surprisingly easy to do. I've done this for a remote lab.
A BIOS that supports WOL might also support "keyboard wakeup" or
"keyboard power-on". That would be a vastly simpler solution.
--kyler
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Posted by WhiteStarLine on March 30, 2006, 6:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi again,
I feel a right idiot, but 5 seconds after my last post, I went to the
next option on the vxUtil utilities on my PDA. Guess what, the menu
item just called 'M' is actually a Wake On LAN utility. Just put in the
main PC's MAC address, then click Send.
The PC's MAC address can be found on the main PC in under 30 seconds.
If you have a PDA, vxUtils may be downloaded free of charge at
http://www.cam.com/vxutil_pers.html.
Bill,
Canberra, Australia
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