Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer with a Raspberry Pi

Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by nullindividual on Sunday November 19, 2023 @10:24AM (#38333473)

WOL works from a powered off state and has so from the 90s. It can also be done over the Internet by forwarding UDP 7 or 9 (probably 9).

So the first post the author made starts with bad assumptions and leads to needless engineering. Cool project, nonetheless.

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Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by hjr265 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:19AM (#38334058)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38018404

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Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by nullindividual on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:31PM (#38335064)

There are solutions to wifi using an ethernet bridge device (not ideal). Windows 11 can still do WoL, so I'm unsure what the other comment is about.

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Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by hjr265 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:41PM (#38335280)

What about the ability to long press the power button for a hard power off or pressing the reset button remotely?

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Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by nullindividual on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:56PM (#38336346)

You could get a pointing stick to do that.

If you're in the OS, both of those solutions are easy. The machine can be in a suspended or powered off state. Presumably you could WoL it, remote in, then do whatever you wish.

A remote shutdown sounds like a return of Back Orifice.

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Re:Go Web Server for Remotely Powering on a Desktop Computer... by hjr265 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @09:55PM (#38341681)

Wow

So hard power off = shutdown, reset = restart?

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