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Hi,
since I updated to 1.5.4. the WOL function is not working anymore:
ipad3,1
iOS 6.2.1
Thank you very much for your effort in advance!
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strange, didn't touch anything in that part for years and it still working here. Can you check again the kodi server mac address? with the latest version "find kodi" should auto fill the mac address also. Please note: WOL doesn't work after a hard shutdown.
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I double checked the mac address which is ok(I entered the address years ago). If I click "find kodi" it fills in a wrong MAC address: it takes/gets the mac address of the wireless access point right before the xbmc machine which is (of course) hardwired to that AP.
I can wake up the machine via my router web-interface.
I always switch off the machine(not standby, not hibernate). The LAN adapter is still powered and I think this mode is called S5 (soft-off).
Thank you very much.
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and clearly it doesn't work with this wrong mac address, right?
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no, it does not work with that wrong mac address. As expected.
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Is this AP configured in bridge or routed mode? If in routed mode WOL can't work because the sender and the receiver of the magic packet must stay in the same broadcast domain.
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it's a cisco router using the dd-wrt router software. The router is configured as client bridge. It's connected wireless to another Router/AP which connects to the internet/LAN
Worked like a charm for years. Until yesterday.
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I saw that there are a handful of free apps that can do wake on lan. Can you try one of those? It's suspicious that the app solves the router mac address, I'm looking at the device routing table to obtain the mac starting from the ip address. Seems that the AP is masking the client MAC. An AP reboot could be also a try.
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I tried a free tool on my iPad: "RemoteBoot WOL" from Zuvola Apps wakes up the xbmc immediately.
Also I can wake up the xbmc machine from a few other computers in my lan using simple tools.
Rebooting the AP did not help.
Maybe you send the packet to the automatically detected mac address though I configured a different address manually?
Thank you very much for your time!
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yes…and maybe we get some feedback from other users to get sure that I'm not the only one with that problem.
Thanks again for all your nice work!
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2016-02-21, 11:50
(This post was last modified: 2016-02-22, 10:37 by soulchar.)
I analyzed the packet you are sending. I think it's malformed.
What I get is:
Packet recieved from 192.168.2.14 on port 62022
at 10:29:33 packet length : 102
00000000 : FF FF FF FF FF FF 38 04 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5
00000010 : B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05
00000020 : 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95
00000030 : 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5
00000040 : B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05
00000050 : 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95 85 05 75 D5 B5 95
00000060 : 85 05 75 D5 B5 95
So the first mac address is 38 04 75 D5 B5 95 which doesn't exist on my network and it's not the one that is configured in the host configuration(my mac address is 38:60:77:9D:0B:89). This address should repeat 16 times but as you see there is a completely different address that repeats and it does not exist on my network too.
I hope this helps.
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Out of curiosity, can you try to add a new kodi server into the remote app kodi server list and try to wake up this new entry? The problem is that on my side everything is working as expected and I'm not able to reproduce the issue.
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I added a new entry - no difference. Also the magic packet is the same.
When I save 00:00:00:00:00:00 as mac address the magic packet looks like this:
Packet recieved from 192.168.2.14 on port 57142
at 11:21:35 packet length : 102
00000000 : FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 04 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000010 : 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000020 : 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000030 : 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000040 : 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000050 : 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05
00000060 : 05 05 05 05 05 05
First part (00) is correct but rest is wrong.
no, I'm using the mac address filled into the kodi server infos. This is the snippet that does the WOL 