Apple Remote for Iphone and Ipod Touch, kind of does wake on lan
I recently discovered that the apple remote app is capable of waking up a computer from sleep if it has wake on lan enabled, and it can only be woken up from sleep mode, not if the machine is entirely turned off. So if you keep your media server on all the time this is a handy way to wake it up without paying for one of the numerous wake on lan apps in the app store.
Tags: Apple, Iphone, Ipod Touch, Wake on Lan
I would really like to get the iphone remote to wake up my mac mini from sleep mode. Often I try to play music via the Mini with iPhone remote but it cannot connect because the Mini is asleep. How do you enable wake on lan? I am running Leopard. I did not buy wake on lan because the Mini is connected to the internet via airport (not a cable) and I read it would not work in that case.
The thing is that Wake on lan does not work without a fixed cable connection. the reason for this is the way wake on lan is built. if you wake your computer using wake on lan, it receives a direct “electric signal” that turns on the computer. If you only have wifi the wifi is going to sleep with the computer and so it can not receive any signals. if you have an ethernet cable it can send a small electric signal that wakes the computer up without the need for the rest of the computer to be running. I hope this explanation makes it a bit more clear what wake on lan actually is and what it can do.