Remote Power ON

[Cookie]

I have installed my server under the stairs. It takes about a few minutes of really annoying tasks to get to the powerbutton. I would love to be able to remotely start the computer from the web interface!

[Mobius]

yeah that would be cool but i think it also requires your motherboard to have a wake on lan feature in the bios. If you don't have a motherboard with that feature, your best bet might be to get a jetkvm or pikvm.

[Duckle]

It requires you to configure your motherboard for WoL as @Mobius mentioned.
I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that from the web interface tho, as you have to send a UDP broadcast package, and I don't think there's any API for that in browsers.

Something like a small program on your computer, or an app on your phone should do.
I haven't used this, but it seems like a neat app for the purpose https://github.com/herzhenr/simple-wake-on-lan

As for how to enable WoL in your motherboard, it varies from board to board.
You can try and google "Wake on lan <motherboard name>" and see if there's some guides, or if you need help, feel free to poke me with the motherboard model, and I'll try and look it up 🙂

[rusty sheriffs badg]

It would be nice if they could do what Synology / Qnap do where you can setup a time schedule for when it turns on / off because is some countries the electricity tariffs are so exppensive. 

 

Edited December 28, 2024 by rusty sheriffs badg

[Smir]

9 hours ago, rusty sheriffs badg said:

It would be nice if they could do what Synology / Qnap do where you can setup a time schedule for when it turns on / off because is some countries the electricity tariffs are so exppensive. 

 

Depends on your motherboard, truenas is just software. 

 

My NAS uses just over 1kw a day, which is around £0.22 a day. I'll check at some point if my motherboard has wake on LAN, as it can probably go off most of the night.

[rusty sheriffs badg]

13 hours ago, Smir said:

Depends on your motherboard, truenas is just software. 

 

My NAS uses just over 1kw a day, which is around £0.22 a day. I'll check at some point if my motherboard has wake on LAN, as it can probably go off most of the night.

£0.22p is good but i was asuming that the way that Synology / Qnap do there power on / off was a softwear script / app.