2007-01-01, 08:08 PM
Happy New Year Everyone!,
I had a spare afternoon today so thought i might write some software.
I have a home network setup with two mvp's, a file server and a media center pc which acts as the mvp's server. Being the lazy person I am I hate having to walk downstairs to start the media center pc before being able to use the mvp's upstairs. As WOL for the MVP seems impossible at the moment I thought I'd try to write something to run on the file server which is powered on all the time.
My MVP sends a udp broadcast packet when it wakes up from standby - presumably trying to get hold of its server. I've created a little application that listens for this packet then sends a wake on lan or "magic packet" to the computer of your choice, in my case my media center pc downstairs. The app is written in VB.NET and requires the .Net Framework 2. The server mac address can be entered into the textboxes or stored in MVPWatch.exe.config file - its currently set to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
If anyone finds it useful please let me know!
I had a spare afternoon today so thought i might write some software.
I have a home network setup with two mvp's, a file server and a media center pc which acts as the mvp's server. Being the lazy person I am I hate having to walk downstairs to start the media center pc before being able to use the mvp's upstairs. As WOL for the MVP seems impossible at the moment I thought I'd try to write something to run on the file server which is powered on all the time.
My MVP sends a udp broadcast packet when it wakes up from standby - presumably trying to get hold of its server. I've created a little application that listens for this packet then sends a wake on lan or "magic packet" to the computer of your choice, in my case my media center pc downstairs. The app is written in VB.NET and requires the .Net Framework 2. The server mac address can be entered into the textboxes or stored in MVPWatch.exe.config file - its currently set to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
If anyone finds it useful please let me know!
Regards,
Phil Greenland
AMD Athlon 2800+ 2.08GHz
Pc Chips Unknown Model - Dont ask it came with the case
512Mb DDR 266MHz RAM
250GB Total HDD + 500Gb on server
Geforce4 MX 4000 64MB DDR AGP 8x
Hauppauge Nova-T (9002)
Hauppauge Media MVP (PAL) Over wired lan (100mbps)
Windows XP Pro SP2
Phil Greenland
AMD Athlon 2800+ 2.08GHz
Pc Chips Unknown Model - Dont ask it came with the case
512Mb DDR 266MHz RAM
250GB Total HDD + 500Gb on server
Geforce4 MX 4000 64MB DDR AGP 8x
Hauppauge Nova-T (9002)
Hauppauge Media MVP (PAL) Over wired lan (100mbps)
Windows XP Pro SP2
