Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Allow WoL for NAS #344

Open
macmpi opened this issue Apr 11, 2016 · 5 comments
Open

Allow WoL for NAS #344

macmpi opened this issue Apr 11, 2016 · 5 comments

Comments

@macmpi
Copy link
Contributor

macmpi commented Apr 11, 2016

Hi,

Would be nice if Volumio allowed an option to send Wake-on-Lan "magic" packet to NAS server to wake them-up.

Thanks!

@apinner
Copy link
Contributor

apinner commented Apr 11, 2016

I would say that most NAS devices and Servers etc are on 24/7 anyway. That combined with the fact that most instances of volumio are probably also kept on 24/7 due to them being low power. And the large number of phone and tablet apps that offer one touch WOL, I'd say this probably has limited usefulness.

There is also an issue #204 where if the NAS is powered on after volumio is doesn't mount.

@macmpi
Copy link
Contributor Author

macmpi commented Apr 12, 2016

Well... If all NAS makers implemented WoL I guess it's due to customers demand for it. In personal / soho environments people tend to be energy conscious these days :)
Kodi & al (which may run in similar context) provide such useful WoL feature.

Issue #204 is indeed an issue that should be resolved in itself.
Once this #344 is resolved, it will indeed greatly benefit from #204 resolution.

@apinner
Copy link
Contributor

apinner commented Apr 12, 2016

WoL is one of those things that can be tricky and frustrating to get working. For a start WiFi support isn't great and lots of SoHo routers don't support it. It can also be difficult to diagnose when it doesn't work and who knows what kind of hardware someone might be trying to wake.

I see many many forum posts and github issues from people not being able to get it working.

@macmpi
Copy link
Contributor Author

macmpi commented Apr 13, 2016

This may help or provide inspiration (scheduling for library scans, mounts, etc)

@apinner
Copy link
Contributor

apinner commented May 17, 2016

Pretty sure that this could be implemented with a plugin.

@apinner apinner added the Plugin label May 17, 2016
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants