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Is it possible to boot another computer (Windows preferrably) with a special network command?
Use case (let's call this command remote boot
):
- ComputerA at home is switched off or in standby
(butremote boot
is enabled) - ComputerB with low energy (e.g. RaspberryPi, running LinuxDebian) is listening on an encrypted channel for instructions
- once ComputerB receives (an authorized)
remote boot ComputerA
, he forwards it to ComputerA
(command could come from smartphone) - ComputerA boots up
- command
remote boot
may only be accepted within local network
I couldn't find anything allowing this, at most remote restart
, which isn't quite, what I'm looking for.
I sense, this might involve communicating with BIOS. I have experience programming my own TCP/IP server/client connection, but can't imagine how to apply this to such a thing like remote boot
.
Thanks, @konqui, that's exactly what I was looking for. Source code for that is available plenty online. – hardmooth – 2014-07-07T06:08:21.160