You guys did a great job specially with the option to create own commands which can be triggered from my smartphone. I use this a lot to power my PC off at the end of the day. Of course it would be cool to have an option also available to power my PC on the next day. Here WakeOnLAN comes to my mind. So would there be any chance to save the last IP or Hostname from the connected PCs and send them the necessary network package to power them on, even when kde-connect does not have established a connection yet (becuase my PC is off) ?
That sounds useful, but doesn't really fit into the design of KDE Connect: it currently only provides features once connected. Do you have any information about how WakeOnLAN works, and how do you imagine you'd access this feature from a (future) user interface?
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First aof all I would need to connect my devices lets say my PC with my smartphone. While pairing KDE Connect (app side)would save the MAC adress from my network card and could provide me later on with a list of all devices I had it connected to at least once and also show me if they are reachable (ping) or not. If they are not we could assume that those devices are offline and if their last known ip adress belong to our current network an option would become available "wakeup" which then would send a magic packet (therefore the MAC adress needs to be known) to the network and wakeup the device if available and supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN Let me know if further informations are required.
Thanks for the update; changing status.
I'd like to chime in on this feature request. It would be nice to have all of these "Smart home" functionalities in the same location. Currently I have to use an app specifically made to send a Wake on Lan request from my phone. My suggestion would be to have "Wake on Lan" menu option behind the hamburger button which brings up all the remembered devices. Dedicated app in question that I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.mrwebb.wakeonlan
Hello, I warmly second this feature request. Since both kdeconnect and wakeonlan require the devices being under the same LAN, it sounds a very reasonable feature. Once association with PC is done (and MAC address is recorded), a big button "try to wake this device" should appear below the info note "this device is not available".
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