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- | ====== Schedule | + | ====== Schedule |
- | FreshTomato includes a WOL (Wake-On-Lan) function under the Tools menu. While often useful, this function must be performed manually every time you wish to wake a device. If you want to have your computer(s), | + | FreshTomato includes a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function under the Tools menu. While often useful, this function must be performed manually every time you wish to wake a device. |
- | Many UEFI/BIOS interfaces have a Wake-On-LAN option setting, such as: | + | Instead, this can be performed automatically in FreshTomato. In the scheduler, you schedule the ether-wake command to automatically send a WOL signal. |
- | * Power on by PCI-E or PCI (Asus UEFI) | + | \\ |
- | * PME Event Wakeup | + | |
- | * Power on by PCI devices | + | |
- | These functions generally assume a client PC/hardware device starts out from a powered down state. | + | Here are the available |
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- | - Navigate to Administration/ | + | |
- | - Scroll to the Custom field of your choice. Check **Enabled** | + | |
- | - In the **Time** menu, select a time (e.g. 9:30 AM) or frequency option \\ (e.g. every 30 mins) for when or how often you want the task executed | + | |
- | - Now check the **Days** you want it executed or Every day | + | |
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- | \\ The command to execute is '' | + | |
<code bash> | <code bash> | ||
- | ether-wake --help | ||
- | BusyBox v1.33.1 (2021-08-11 16:11:49 CEST) multi-call binary. | ||
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Usage: ether-wake [-b] [-i IFACE] [-p aa: | Usage: ether-wake [-b] [-i IFACE] [-p aa: | ||
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- | <code bash> | + | - Go to the Administration/ |
- | ether-wake -b AB: | + | - Scroll to the Custom field of your choice (**Custom 1**). |
- | </code> | + | - Check the corresponding **Enabled** setting. |
+ | - In the **Time** menu, select 2:45 PM. | ||
+ | - Check the checkboxes for Monday through Friday. | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
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+ | Enter **ether-wake -b AB: | ||
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+ | \\ {{: | ||
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+ | ===== Notes and Troubleshooting ===== | ||
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+ | For a PC to wake up from a WOL packet, it must have its WOL firmware setting enabled. Before testing scheduled WOL events in FreshTomato, | ||
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+ | * Power on by PCI-E or PCI (Asus UEFI) | ||
+ | * PME Event Wakeup | ||
+ | * Power on by PCI devices | ||
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+ | WOL settings in the PC's operating system also must be enabled. For Details, see: [[https:// | ||
- | \\ | + | WOL functions generally assume a client PC/device starts from a powered off state. |
- | {{: | + | \\ |