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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: csimon on April 16, 2015, 05:59:13 pm
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WOL by connecting to a library server with IP address, i.e. the ability to enter a MAC address for the server.
Not exactly a touch-related item but would help with the aim of using a Windows tablet as a remote, if you're not using the Access key method of connecting.
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If WOL is set correctly, the attempt to connect will trigger it. There should be no need to do anything other than that.
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Thanks - I could have sworn it didn't work last time I tried it, but I'll try again.
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You will always need to use an Access Key when you want to use WOL - thats just how it is, sorry.
Entering a MAC address is quite nerd-y, and 99.9% of people wouldn't know what to do with that - and the 0.1% can use the Access key instead. ;)
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A lot of WoL only works via wire. I take it that's irrelevant and you JRiver guys can work via the wireless route?
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You will always need to use an Access Key when you want to use WOL - thats just how it is, sorry.
Entering a MAC address is quite nerd-y, and 99.9% of people wouldn't know what to do with that - and the 0.1% can use the Access key instead. ;)
JRemote manages to do it connecting via IP. And the reason I don't want to use Access Key is that my broadband is extremely slow and flaky and also JRiver's servers have been known to go down. It's just a pain connecting via Access Key, the delay is too long. Not all nerds have decent broadband. If we are knowledgable enough to be connecting via IP address in the first place then we can manage to put the MAC in. It's also possible to extract the MAC automatically when first connecting to an address, I believe.
(Ths is why I don't use any cloud services or streaming! Another side-effect is that after upgrading a version of MC which needs new filters, I have to wait about 5 minutes before a video starts while it downloads the new filter. And it has been known that the broadband drops before I've loaded the filters so I'm left without the capability of viewing video on my own network for a few days while my broadband/phone line is fixed. I'm currently without phone/broadband on average for about a month every year.)