Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way

Post by JosephRedfern » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #199

DCKing wrote: post #33

This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…

> Especially since the setup requires a Raspberry Pi to run permanently. Which they'll gladly do no? If (poor quality) SD card corruption is a concern, you can have the RPi mount the SD card read-only or just keep a full backup of the SD card. I've had a RPi 1 power 4 VoIP Cisco phones for years. Zero issue. I've got another one constantly establishing a remote SSH-tunnel so that I can easily troubleshoot my brother,…

Post by LaputanMachine » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:43 PM UTC

t0astbread wrote: post #115

LaputanMachine wrote: post #80

Very nice, I didn't know that you could wake computers with unicast packets. For my use case, I run a Raspberry Pi that is on the same local network as my PC. When I connect to the Pi to forward my PC's RDP port to my laptop's loopback interface, the Pi sends a normal magic packet to wake my PC. All that was needed was an entry like this in my laptop's .ssh/config: Host remote-desktop HostName raspberry-pi User pi Po…

There's also the "exec" keyword that lets you run a command in a "Match" block like so: Match host my-pc.local exec "wakeonlan -i 192.168.178.255 11:22:33:44:55:66" This doesn't cover the case when the connecting machine is in another network but it does avoid a hop. Perhaps you could also run another SSH command in the exec condition that connects to the Pi and has it send the WoL packet.

Post by CraigJPerry » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:46 PM UTC

oneshtein wrote: post #43

CraigJPerry wrote: post #11

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This was always attractive to me, how are you running a linux host on the phone or are you just using native android hosted services?

I use a custom firmware with Termux. It's enough for me. https://medium.com/junior-dev/how-to-re-purpose-your-old-and...

Post by cozzyd » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:52 PM UTC

elevation wrote: post #79

DCKing wrote: post #33

This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…

If an idling raspberry pi is too power hungry, a microcontroller like an ESP32 could be made to respond to ARPs. $8 for the MCU and a couple of afternoons of noodling. It's not going to run avahi for you though.

Post by V__ » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

danieg wrote: post #91

cmeacham98 wrote: post #19

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I'm not using any dark theme addons or similar, just the standard prefers-color-scheme, and I have the same problem. So they just didn't account for their website's dark mode when writing the article.

Author here, apologies for the dark mode issue and thanks for flagging it -- looks to be an open bug in theme-ui ( https://github.com/system-ui/theme-ui/issues/1602 ). I've just pushed a workaround that appears to have fixed it.