2017-02-21, 00:50
Unfortunately, despite the server working perfectly in terms of waking up for recording, EPG grabbing, disk checking etc, I have never been able to wake it with WOL.
My motherboard and switch both support it but I gave up trying to get it to work - I tried everything, including the Kodi Advanced WOL plugin and an advanced WOL android app.
I have ended up having to switch it on, manually, whenever anyone wants to watch anything on the server.
Far from the best solution but, as a general rule, it only really needs to be started once in the evening and streaming/recording activity seems to keep it active until everyone goes to sleep.
Sorry I could not be of more assistance, but good luck with it - I am confident that nearly any modern set up should be able to work in this way. Having tinkered with every BIOS and Windows setting (enable WOL, allow waking via magic packets etc,) I became convinced that it was a setting on my router that needed changing.
My motherboard and switch both support it but I gave up trying to get it to work - I tried everything, including the Kodi Advanced WOL plugin and an advanced WOL android app.
I have ended up having to switch it on, manually, whenever anyone wants to watch anything on the server.
Far from the best solution but, as a general rule, it only really needs to be started once in the evening and streaming/recording activity seems to keep it active until everyone goes to sleep.
Sorry I could not be of more assistance, but good luck with it - I am confident that nearly any modern set up should be able to work in this way. Having tinkered with every BIOS and Windows setting (enable WOL, allow waking via magic packets etc,) I became convinced that it was a setting on my router that needed changing.
