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/diy/,
I want to activate a button or switch wirelessly, specifically my powerbutton my PC, so that I can turn on my computer from another room and remote desktop.
Any suggestions on the easiest way to do this? I could set up raspi thats always on to just activate the switch but something is telling me thats total overkill.
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>>952907
>something is telling me thats total overkill
Cause walking the next room over is too much. Hell since you made it there you might as well stay.
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get one of those cheapo wireless remote light turn on/off things and mod it (or if you can find a 3 prong version, no mod needed).
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>>952907
i just use the wake-on-lan feature on my remote computers.
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>>952910
Yeap :S
I have several cheap monitors and small computers I got for free that are purely remote desktop machines to my main PC. It allows me to have a high performance rig in any room. Wanna stream some dope content, bam, wanna play games, bam, wanna work, bam, Wanna access a file, bam. The issue is if i turn off the main PC, it defeats the whole purpose of what I'm doing.
>>952912
This seems in the right direction, but I don't need to regulate when power is going to it, I need to turn the PC to use the power
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>>952916
Dude seriously? Ok so when I remote desktop, it just would auto wake it up. googling now
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>>952907
Wake-on-LAN, you dummy
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>>952922
not usually, you need to send it a magic packet to wake it up. magic packet depends on mac address of nic.
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