iRidium for Wake-on-LAN

It's a technology that allows to turn on equipment (a PC, a TV-set, etc.) remotely by means of sending a command via a local network.

The documentation was updated on 21.7.2021

Description

Wake-on-LAN is a technology that allows to turn on equipment (a PC, a TV-set, etc.) remotely by means of sending a special sequence of bytes, a magic packet, via a local network. This packet can be inserted into packets of any standard protocols of higher levels, for example, UDP or IPX.

The Wake-on-LAN driver has only one command that allows a control panel (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac) to turn on (wake up) a device (a PC, a TV-set, etc.) via a local network to control it.

Connection

Turning on Wake-On-LAN depends on two facts: a motherboard and a network card. Your motherboard must be connected to ATX-compatible power supply. A network card or a wireless card must support this function.

Setting Driver

1 Add the Wake-on-LAN driver to a created project from the DEVICES tab.

2 Enter connection settings of the driver:

Protocol - UDP;
Log Level - the level of logging;
Host - IP-address (default address 255:255:255:255). It is recommended to connect via broadcast address to exclude a problem of a changed IP-address of a device with DHCP.
Port - port (by default it is 7, port 9 is often used).

Setting up commands

There is only one command in the driver that turns on (wakes up) devices, there are no feedback channels or tokens. The command does not have settings to control equipment, it's enough to drag'n'drop the command on a graphic item (Button) and send any value to the channel.

Read more about work with graphic items in the "Types of graphic items" article.

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