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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. However, within FreshTomato you can also schedule a WOL signal to automatically be sent to any local device at a preset time by using the ether-wake command in conjunction with the scheduler.
Here are the available parameters for ether-wake:
Usage: ether-wake [-b] [-i IFACE] [-p aa:bb:cc:dd[:ee:ff]/a.b.c.d] MAC Send a magic packet to wake up sleeping machines. MAC must be a station address (00:11:22:33:44:55) or a hostname with a known 'ethers' entry. -b Broadcast the packet -i IFACE Interface to use (default eth0) -p PASSWORD Append four or six byte PASSWORD to the packet
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For example, to send a Wake-On-LAN signal to the device on your local network with a MAC address of AB:CD:EF:01:23:45 every weekday at 2:45 PM, do this:
For a PC to wake up from a WOL packet, it must have its WOL firmware setting enabled. Before testing scheduled WOL events in Tomato, please ensure your PC has the appropriate UEFI/BIOS menu setting enabled to recognize Wake-On-LAN packets. Most UEFI/BIOS interfaces will have a Wake-On-LAN option named something like:
WOL settings in the PC's operating system also must be enabled. See here for details. WOL functions generally assume a client PC/device starts out from an off state. If your device is in a suspend or sleep state, it may not recognize the wake signal and therefore may not wake as expected. Details for Windows can be found here.