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.
In the advanced settings you can set the addon to continue sending WOL packets with a configurable delay. This is useful, when the remote computer or NAS is kept awake, as long as WOL-packets are received.
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