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Retired_Member
Jan 11, 2013wake-on-demand and shutdown on inactivity ?
First question : Is it possible to use something like wake-on-demand (Apple Bonjour service has that) with the ReadyNAS ? I use my NAS for my medias file. But each time i want to access a media,...
chirpa
Jan 11, 2013Luminary
Okay, those NAS do support WOL.
By router support I mean the router having smarts/brains to send a WOL packet to a system that appears offline. NTGR routers don't offer this, besides using custom firmware like DD-WRT, the FVS won't for sure.
I haven't checked XBMC lately to see if they have that option, to send a WOL packet.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:Wake_On_Lan
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ad ... ake_On_Lan
By router support I mean the router having smarts/brains to send a WOL packet to a system that appears offline. NTGR routers don't offer this, besides using custom firmware like DD-WRT, the FVS won't for sure.
I haven't checked XBMC lately to see if they have that option, to send a WOL packet.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:Wake_On_Lan
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ad ... ake_On_Lan
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