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How to set up WakeMyRig

Setting up a host to wake up in WakeMyRig is fairly simple. For later reference: on the "Edit host" page you can find a online-help in German, French, English and Italian for every configuration section hidden behind the info button.

Note: Wake-On-LAN does only work for wire-connected hosts. It does not work for hosts connected over WiFi! That is a principle technical limitation and none of WakeMyRig.

Note 2: You have to configure your host to accept and interpret Wake-On-LAN "magic packets". For x86 computers this is done in the BIOS or like for other systems in the driver settings of the operating system.

 
Step 1, starting

After starting WakeMyRig, tap the "Edit" button on the top right corner.

The list will now offer editing for your host list where you can delete or add hosts. We suppose there aren't any hosts configured yet, so just tap the line "Add new host".

 
Step 2, the minimum informations

You are now presented with the "Edit host" page.

On this single place you'll enter all informations about the new host. For every section on this page there exists a online help explaining the meaning of the fields in the section. You can reach the online help by tapping the "Info" sign on the far right of every section header.

At a bare minimum you must provide a name for the new host and its hardware MAC address!

So, tap the "Name" field and let's give the new host a meaningfull name. This name will be shown in the host list of WakeMyRig.

Optionally, enter a description for the host. This will be shown right beneath the name in the host list and might be usefull for you to better distinguish between several hosts.

Lastly, enter the hardware MAC address of the host you want to wake up. The MAC address is a unique hexadecimal ID assigned to each network chip. You can find the MAC by exploring the hardware information of your network card in the operation system. You should then enter something like 1A:2B:C3:4D:E5:FF, case is ignored.

If you are fine with limited broadcasts and do not need directed broadcasts or waking up a host over the internet, you are already done! Easy, huh? Now skip to step 5.

 
Step 3, directed broadcasts

To use directed broadcasts for sending Wake-On-LAN packets you have to supply the hosts local IP address.

The subnet mask is optional and if omitted is set to 255.255.255.0 as default. Make sure you supply the correct subnet mask for your needs otherwise, the Wake-On-LAN packets might not reach their destination!

 
Step 4, wake over internet

If you want to wake some host over the internet, this host has to either have a static public IP address or a fully qualified domain name pointing to it. The FQDN may of course come from some DynDNS service. For example: "host.example.com" or "host.dyndns.org"

Also you have to configure your router to forward incoming broadcast packets into the internal LAN or directly to a specific host. That's what the "Port" field is for. Default port is 9, but you can choose whatever port you want as long as you can configure it in your router to forward broadcast packets.

Note: Most routers do not accept limited broadcasts nor forward them, in fact limited broadcasts are defined as being never forwarded in other networks. Hence you may have to fill in the local IP and local subnet mask too, to use directed broadcasts which you can forward with your router.

 
Step 5, we're done!

After supplying WakeMyRig with all needed information tap the "Save" button on the top right corner to return to the host list. Tap there the "Done" button and you are indeed done.

Now the list will show all the hosts you configured with optional description and a blue chevron on the right for checking the host settings and online/offline status (see below).

To send a host Wake-On-LAN packets just tap the hosts name. A action sheet will come up where you can decide if you want to wake the host over LAN or over Internet. The "Wake over Internet" button will only appear if you configured a valid internet address for the host.

Tap one of the "Wake over ..." buttons and if all went well, your configured host should power up!

 
Getting the current status

If you want to quickly lookup some of the settings of a host, it's online/offline status or when you last woke it up, just tap the blue chevron button on the right side of the host list.

On the upcoming page you can see all the settings of a host: Settings you did in blue, default values or not available values in grey.

As soon as you enter the status page, WakeMyRig tries to "ping" the host via it's local and - if configured - public address and shows you the state (online or offline) below the address. If the ping for some reason is not possible, nothing is shown. An activity indicater shows you that the "ping" didn't finish yet.