After trawling google trying to find answers to an idea i've had for ages, i wondered "where can i just ask a big bunch of nerds who might have the answer?" and instantly realised, o favourite forum of wonderful geekery, maybe you guys and gals have some ideas.
I've just found logmein.com, a free version of gotomypc, whereby you can login to your machine from a satellite site. It works great. My problem is that my PC enjoys a good crash every time i turn my back (faulty mem, getting new rig, but still would pref to have it off when i'm not there, save the planet & all...). I'd love to be able to turn it on remotely, then do the logmein.com thing, then turn it off. Parts 2 & 3 are easy. Part1: turn it on and log myself in. Toughie.
I found a great PERL script [google: "wakeonlan"] to turn PCs on remotely but it works via PCI ethernet port and I access via USB wireless, so that's probably out (i emailed the author to check but i can't imagine that the USB would be reachable from an off PC). So my next thought was mobile phones. I've read some cool scientific papers on animal behaviour where the authors had traps which texted them when they closed, e.g. "TRAP432 ACTIVATED 14:28 12/03/2006" or whatever. I was thinking, maybe i could somehow hook up the guts of a phone to a teeny motor and have it press the ON switch when i call it, or better still, make a connection in the same way the switch mechanism does (although i think that might be more fiddly and risk screwing up the PC switch).
Anyone out there with any knowledge on:
-Remote activation of PCs through non WAKEONLAN protocols
-Programming mobile phones
-Wiring mobiles to little poking motors
-What on earth a little poking motor might be
I'd be very very appreciative.
Cheers yall!
Dez
I've just found logmein.com, a free version of gotomypc, whereby you can login to your machine from a satellite site. It works great. My problem is that my PC enjoys a good crash every time i turn my back (faulty mem, getting new rig, but still would pref to have it off when i'm not there, save the planet & all...). I'd love to be able to turn it on remotely, then do the logmein.com thing, then turn it off. Parts 2 & 3 are easy. Part1: turn it on and log myself in. Toughie.
I found a great PERL script [google: "wakeonlan"] to turn PCs on remotely but it works via PCI ethernet port and I access via USB wireless, so that's probably out (i emailed the author to check but i can't imagine that the USB would be reachable from an off PC). So my next thought was mobile phones. I've read some cool scientific papers on animal behaviour where the authors had traps which texted them when they closed, e.g. "TRAP432 ACTIVATED 14:28 12/03/2006" or whatever. I was thinking, maybe i could somehow hook up the guts of a phone to a teeny motor and have it press the ON switch when i call it, or better still, make a connection in the same way the switch mechanism does (although i think that might be more fiddly and risk screwing up the PC switch).
Anyone out there with any knowledge on:
-Remote activation of PCs through non WAKEONLAN protocols
-Programming mobile phones
-Wiring mobiles to little poking motors
-What on earth a little poking motor might be
I'd be very very appreciative.
Cheers yall!
Dez
