I'm using the POHD in combination with a external NAS. I don't use a harddisk in the media player.

I would like to be able to sent (not receive) a magic packet to the NAS server.

I don't know if all required information is available within the POHD when the magic packet should be sent to the NAS. I think the mac adress of the server that has to be activated is required. Perhaps saving the MAC address of the NAS server when it is active, could enable this feature. I've have a squeezebox, and this little gem wakes my NAS -> out of the box.

I think the magic packet can be sent always. When the server you're waking up is already active, the packet will be ignored. Otherwise it will activate the required (NAS) server.

Thanks in advance,
Erik

PS: If this is already possible, I would like to know HOW.

You can contact user Marty068 or check his posts, he was looking for the same.

Thanks,

have looked at his posts. Seems rather difficult.

If you know how to use Putty, everything you have to do is:
1) Download modified Busybox with ether-wake
2) Add ether-wake to be run on start-up

Something like that (free space on flash needed):


(remove "_" between "w" and "get")


Options of ether-wake:

Hi Mikka,

I don't have a harddisk available in my POHD (and don't intend to install it).
Is your suggestion possible ??

I assume, that busybox requires more space then available in POHD (without hd)
Putty is no problem. Use it all the time

Erik

No, you don't need hard disk. Busybox will be downloaded to flash and there you need some space (you might want to replace font - example also available on this forum).

Thanks mikka, it worked like a charm, after 1 hour of messing around

I had some problems deleting the font ARIALUNI.TTF (I think because it is on the read-only filesystem squashfs). I used your "font.sh" script, but that resulted in an error when trying to copy the download font over the existing one.

After all I needed no extra free space. For people who want to achieve the same, I used the following steps:

- Login to the POHD using putyy(telnet)
- Make sure you log in as user root
- Goto /usr/local/etc (thats were I had some free space) with the command:
- Download busybox 2 using the command: (remember to remove the _ between w and get)
- Make sure it's executable with the command:
- Add the ether-wake command to, I think some kind of startup script, /usr/local/etc/rcS, using the following command:
- Check if the command is stored in the rcS file, using the command cat /usr/local/etc/rcS. You should something like this:
- Shutdown POHD
- Shutdown your server, WOL should be active
- Start POHD, and the server should be activated with the magic packet sent. it's magic

Hope this helps others with this problem

Strange. Previous solution worked, I tested it, but it doesn't anymore.
Can't figure out why. The busybox2 executable is still were I left it.
The command to wake my NAS is still in the rcS file.

But the magic packet doesn't reach my NAS anymore. When i start busybox2 manually it also doesn't work.

Any ideas ?

Can you try to wake-up NAS different way? If it still doesn't work, then you should check NAS. Maybe something has changed in it's configuration.

The problem is fixed already. It had nothing to do with the POHD.
I recently upgraded the bios of my motherboard. This disabled the WOL functionality.

Changed the setting, and now everything works flawlessly

thx for the info