Remotely (re)starting my system via a smart power switch?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:19:06 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:10:06 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I am returning home tomorrow to deal with plant watering and the grass lawn etc.
>>So I will definitely look into enabling WOL on these laptops! :)
>
>Now back from the trip home and I can report that the real problem was *not*
>overheating as I suspected (that has happened before).
>Instead one of my 8-way NetGear Gigabit switches had given up so I had to rush
>out and buy a replacement (TP-Link 8X Gigabit this time).
>
>Then the missing computers came on line again...
>
>But while I was there I checked the WOL setting in the laptop BIOS and it turns
>out it is enabled already (but not named WOL of course).
>So if an overheat shutdown happens in the future I will try the WOL trick.
>
>Regarding the switch failure:
>-----------------------------
>After I had installed the new switch I decided to check if the old really was
>broken by digging out another 12VDC/1A supply from my box of spare supplies and
>lo-and-behold, the switch started operating again!
>So it was the P/S that had given up!
>Now I have a spare 8-way Gigabit switch...

Sorry - typo!
Replace the word "router" with "switch" in my previous reply!
Corrected text above.

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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden