Wake up a PC on LAN from QNAP

[xin99]

Can QNAP use WAKE ON LAN to wake up a pc in local network?

[doktornotor]

By default? No. No such application installed.

[pwilson]

Can QNAP use WAKE ON LAN to wake up a pc in local network?

Install Optware; See: Install Optware IPKG

Once you have Optware/IPKG installed you can install "WakeLAN", by logging into your NAS via SSH, (login as "admin"), and typing:

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ipkg update
ipkg install wakelan

See also: WakeLAN documentation

[xin99]

Thanks for detailed instruction. But another question important is "After install wakelan, how to invoke wakelan command on QNAP remotely on QNAP webpage? (I have only one pc on lan, and want it to be waked up by QNAP)"

[doktornotor]

Thanks for detailed instruction. But another question important is "After install wakelan, how to invoke wakelan command on QNAP remotely on QNAP webpage? (I have only one pc on lan, and want it to be waked up by QNAP)"

Uhm....

See also: WakeLAN documentation

[ottix]

That is a good question.
I need to do exactly the same thing!

Please, anyone answer this

[giopas]

What do you want to achieve exactly?

If you need a shell on the QNAP webserver where you can run the wakelan, you could install KeyBox package provided by QoolBox.

If however you would need to have a webpage, let say with a wakelan button on it, I think you would need to create a webpage able to do that.

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6235 ... tml-button

giopas

[pwilson]

That is a good question.
I need to do exactly the same thing!

Please, anyone answer this

It isn't difficult.

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wakelan 50:e5:49:5c:06:bc

This command "wakes up" the device with a MAC address of: 50:e5:49:5c:06:bc.

Didn't you read the documentation I already provided?

You can implement this in your "crontab" file on the NAS, if you example you wanted to "wakeup" your PC at 8AM everyday:

/etc/config/crontab:

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0 8 * * * /opt/bin/wakelan 50:e5:49:5c:06:bc

Check out QNAPedia article: Add items to crontab, especially the Method 1 bis: /etc/config/crontab, load and restart section.

[Wildchild121007]

Evening's . I've spent many many hrs on looking for options to wake my pc on just for plex. Both myself in my house and also my family when I am not here. I have managed to get wol working remotely but want to be able for my family to be able to just click my plex server and it wakes my pc. After reading and reading I've found I don't have the right router to me this happen. Sky hub. So would it be possible as I have a qnap device to run the server from that end say plex 1 which then wakes my pc and then click plex 2. Thanks for any support. Ant

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[martinZ]

I wish there was an app for this too! Patrick, I think you misunderstand the OP question. Yes, you can load WakeLan and run the command from a shell - BUT that means opening a Shell on the Internet to your unit. Some of us would rather not do that. The code to send a magic packet from the QNAP would seem trivial and I really wish a developer would throw one together. That way, only the standard Web interface is exposed. Same for my DD-WRT, I note Patrick you mentioned in another post how easy this is to do from DD-WRT (and you are right, it is), but yet again - that means you have enabled your management interface on the Internet. I don't do that either. So if there is a developer listening, a nice WOL app for the QNAP would really be great.

[OneCD]

Sorry - Patrick Wilson died late in 2015. His contributions are missed.

As there is now a QPKG solution for WOL, I'm locking this thread.