2015-04-20, 08:51
(2015-04-20, 06:40)nickr Wrote: I have been following this thread out of interest. Chromeboxes are $300 here and some people are even trying to flog them on a local auction site for $400.
However I just found two "barely used" Asus's for $220 each, so now I am here out of more than "interest". Wooohoo.
hi
(2015-04-20, 07:47)Gloucester Wrote: First of all, thanks for the fantastic guide - set up my ASUS Chromebox with OpenElec/Kodi last night in under half an hour! Just have one question on WOL functionality that may be useful to others as well.
I have an external USB HDD where I plan to store my media. That disk is shared on the network, and is getting accessed by a Sickbeard instance which writes to it when new content becomes available. Is it possible to leave the Chromebox in Suspend mode, and have the network share wake it up when files need to get copied? I naively assumed this is straightforward to do using Wake on LAN, but no luck so far. Any ideas?
PS Wake-on LAN works fine from the mobile app.
simply accessing a network share doesn't send a WoL packet - it needs to be explicitly sent from whatever program needs access to the network share. A better way IMO is to have the external USB HDD connected to a machine that's always on (or your router, if supported) and have the ChromeBox/Kodi access the network share.
