2006-05-29, 09:47 AM
On a couple of occasions Ive been away from home and wanted to shedule a recording but couldnt as my pvr was on standby.
I spent some time looking at wol and found a few useful cmd line driven tools and 1 good website which allowed u to type in your mac address and send a wol packet.
I liked the website method as It meant you didnt have to download a small wol app so could use it in more places.
The web method meant I had to have the mac address details to hand all the time so I decided to put a very very basic website together to send the packets and contain a link to my pvr web admin page.
I imagine every one who needs such a thing will already have somthing setup but I thought Id post it in case anyone found it useful.
You need a web hosting service which has perl scripting enabled, my ISP dosent give me scripting for free so Im using http://www.freehostia.com and am quite happy with the service, and very happy with the price![Smile Smile](https://forums.nextpvr.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
Im no expert on wol over the internet but have managed to get it working so will answer what questions I can.
Anyway here is a zip of the site, if anyone is interested in "tarting" it up that would be great, maybe it will make a worth addition to the wiki...![Smile Smile](https://forums.nextpvr.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
I have an initial "home" page which links to the wake page which is under a different directory so I can set a login password, the wol packet is built with a very simple perl script, I also have a simple form for selecting multiple machines.
Anyway I hope someone finds it useful in some way.
I spent some time looking at wol and found a few useful cmd line driven tools and 1 good website which allowed u to type in your mac address and send a wol packet.
I liked the website method as It meant you didnt have to download a small wol app so could use it in more places.
The web method meant I had to have the mac address details to hand all the time so I decided to put a very very basic website together to send the packets and contain a link to my pvr web admin page.
I imagine every one who needs such a thing will already have somthing setup but I thought Id post it in case anyone found it useful.
You need a web hosting service which has perl scripting enabled, my ISP dosent give me scripting for free so Im using http://www.freehostia.com and am quite happy with the service, and very happy with the price
![Smile Smile](https://forums.nextpvr.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
Im no expert on wol over the internet but have managed to get it working so will answer what questions I can.
Anyway here is a zip of the site, if anyone is interested in "tarting" it up that would be great, maybe it will make a worth addition to the wiki...
![Smile Smile](https://forums.nextpvr.com/images/smilies/smile.png)
I have an initial "home" page which links to the wake page which is under a different directory so I can set a login password, the wol packet is built with a very simple perl script, I also have a simple form for selecting multiple machines.
Anyway I hope someone finds it useful in some way.