2012-12-09, 05:07
Hi Forum,
This is my first post here, so let's start by thanking you all for creating XBMC and the Android remote app. I did some digging on the "Power On" button in the app, and found that it sends a Wake-On-Lan (WOL) packet to the XBMC server. This is of little use to me, as I use that machine for a lot more than XBMC, so when XBMC is not running the machine is still awake.
I still wanted to be able to start XBMC from the "Power On" button, so I wrote a little Python script that does just that. It reacts to WOL packets and executes a command, so you can use it to trigger anything really. Check my blog post at http://stuvel.eu/blog/186/start-xbmc-from-remote for the source and explanation on how to use it.
Sybren
This is my first post here, so let's start by thanking you all for creating XBMC and the Android remote app. I did some digging on the "Power On" button in the app, and found that it sends a Wake-On-Lan (WOL) packet to the XBMC server. This is of little use to me, as I use that machine for a lot more than XBMC, so when XBMC is not running the machine is still awake.
I still wanted to be able to start XBMC from the "Power On" button, so I wrote a little Python script that does just that. It reacts to WOL packets and executes a command, so you can use it to trigger anything really. Check my blog post at http://stuvel.eu/blog/186/start-xbmc-from-remote for the source and explanation on how to use it.
Sybren