Add-on:Advanced Wake On Lan
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Advanced Wake On Lan
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Sends a WOL magic packet to a remote computer using its ethernet MAC address and displays a notification if and when the computer is available.
The Addon can be launched manually from the Programs-section of XBMC (and thus added to your favourites, etc.), and can also be configured in the addon-settings to autostart with XBMC, thus waking up your remote computer when XBMC starts.
Additionally another command (e.g. activate a specific window) can be handed to the script as a parameter. It then launches that command either immediately or not until the remote computer is available. Behaviour can be set by a second parameter:
- False: launch immediately (default)
- True: wait for remote computer
As an example, you could add the following entry to your favourites.xml:
"RunScript("script.advanced.wol",ActivateWindow(MyVideoLibrary),True)"
This would attempt to wake the remote computer configured in the "Advanced Wake On Lan"-Settings, wait until it is awake, and only then launch the XBMC-Video-Library.
This feature is especially useful, if you want to launch your remote computer, when entering a specific menu-item in XBMC.
You can also pass the Host/IP and MAC-Address of the Remote Computer to the script as the third parameter, bypassing the config in the addon-settings. E.g.:
"RunScript("script.advanced.wol",,,my-server@50:E5:49:B5:61:34)"
This is useful, if you have more then one remote computer you want to wake independently.
Installing
This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:
- Settings
- Add-ons
- Install from repository
- Program Add-ons
- Advanced Wake On Lan
- Install