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To save energy, I want to have my home server on only when one of the computers in my house are on. What's the best way of automating this?
burnt1ce
Posted 2014-08-08T18:41:40.053
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How to turn on home server when any one of the computers in the home network is on?
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Configure the server to go to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity and to use Wake-on-Lan (WOL).
If you want more details on how to do this, you will need to provide us more information about your server.
Jason
Posted 2014-08-08T18:41:40.053
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Can you define what you mean by
home server? A PC on a wireless connection? A NAS on a wired LAN? What is it? – Grim – 2014-08-08T18:43:05.887If it's a normal PC you may have some luck with wake-on-lan/magic packets to turn it on automatically. – Yozomiri – 2014-08-08T18:45:31.337
My home server is an ubuntu machine that serves mainly as a backup server. – burnt1ce – 2014-08-09T19:21:46.933