Turn on your Server from anywhere!

[@olsenlid]

Happy to see you back, Christian! Remember, if you don't have your health, all the money in the world won't matter. Mental health is important. Great to see you taking a step back, reflecting and being open about it, and coming back stronger! Wish you all the best for the future!

[@zyghom]

it is amazing that you spent 20 minutes on explaining rather than 1 minute on showing the commands - much appreciated ;-)

[@myuuiii]

Wake-On-LAN has been great for me for the exact same reason you said, saving power. I go between two houses so being able to turn it off and on without being there is so useful. Look forward to the rest of the video! 💖

[@sekus]

Welcome back! I am still trying to absorb all of your past videos. You have great content on your channel!

[@demanuDJ]

Happy to have you back on youtube. Keep pushing forward Christian!

[@GumShoeNoir]

Thanks Christian! How topical and timely! I'm glad you're back. I just implemented power monitoring of my servers using HomeAssistant with some Sonoff S31 mini plugs. I can't wait to enhance the UI with a power button. FWIW you can use the Sonoff to switch power but I disable this functionality so that I don't accidently power off a device when I'm blindly exploring wires and by invertedly power off a server without a proper shutdown.

[@lalala987]

Schön, dass du zurück bist! ❤ bitte geh es gemütlich an, kein Stress. Optimalerweise machst du nur so viel, wie dir spaß macht!

[@entropy_69]

it's good to see you back, I hope you're doing well! :)

[@davemeech]

Welcome back! Awesome seeing a video from you again. The home lab itch is once again real.

[@marsim4150]

really happy to see you back 🙂

[@jonathanchevallier7046]

Happy to see you back Christian. Thank you for this video.

[@ChrisValcke]

glad to see you back! great example of using HA to automate the Homelab

[@romayojr]

i haven’t watched the video yet but welcome back christian!

[@patrickcasavant-cssmv]

Hey welcome back to your channel!! :) I hope everything is going well for you! VERY appy to see that you are back! Forget about all others youtuber, all your content is very is absolutely perfect!! You entertain us and help us enormously!! Wish you the best!

[@AliCaliskan-km5jc]

Nice to see you back! Really missed your awesome content

[@MrJackPL]

Home assistant part it is what I was looking for! Thank you! It will reduce my bills.

[@mason8714]

welcome back matey! good to see you online :)

[@ash_lab]

Happy to see you back Man !!

[@zairahira3447]

Good to see your video after a long time Christian :)

[@iongchihang5828]

I just wanted to learn how to configure Wake on LAN in Homeassistant, then you uploaded this video🥰🥰

[@christianlempa]

Haha awesome timing bro 👊

[@jacobbrown1445]

Absolutely great video. Thank you for the in-depth explanation of this at the packet level. I’ve heard of this concept in other videos and now finally understand it fully

[@ZeeKay80]

Welcome back!! Missed your videos

[@Juergen_K]

Exactly what I was looking for, precise and right to the point. Thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Awesome! Glad you liked it :)

[@brodierobson4490]

Welcome back! this is exactly what I was looking for to

[@diazrocks]

awesome video man! great to see you back!

[@jorgegomez374]

Glad your back my friend. Take care

[@accesser]

Looking good man, welcome back hope you had a good break

[@biglipsadboi5475]

I’ve literally spent a week trying to figure this out and this is the only video that properly explains and teaches, thanks so much

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! I'm glad it helped you :)

[@deathpie5000]

I greatly appreciate all of your content ,I'm glad to see you're back. I would love to see more proxmox videos, maybe setting some up for use just like it was a normal desktop being able to KZbin with sound and everything, how to get on board graphics to pass through? Who knows, I love all your videos but when you can I'd love some proxmox :) I watched all the learn Linux TV but I'd still love some from you I think many would :) I know that you're very busy so only if you get time, keep going bud. You are amazing

[@plagosus]

First, welcome back. I am glad that you feel like making videos again and that you enjoy it. Second, this is a great topic. Would watch with joy.

[@cserajesh]

Happry to see you back :) Good content

[@Myektaie]

Hi, its a beautiful day to see you back! 🎉 hope you had a good time off 😊

[@vaster1142]

I was so excited when I saw that you uploaded but I guess I'll come back for this when I finally have my server setup

[@neodzen]

Glad to see your new video, Christian!

[@drbyte2009]

Glad that you are back !!👍

[@ApexDesignsAU]

Perfect timing! A few power outages have put me offline recently, glad I will be able to remotely boot back up!

[@aminebc8541]

Welcome back🎉🎉🎉🎉 we missed you, really happy to see you again😊😊😊

[@vaster1142]

Man resumed like he never left ❤❤❤❤

[@eleuteriogarcia1225]

As everyone's saying, I'm happy to see you here again! Willkommen zurück!

[@legendaryz_ch]

10:36 small addition: the seventh bit of the MAC-address indicates, wether the address is a globally unique address or a generated one: bit 0: unique, natural MAC address bit 1: generated address so for example 01:23:45:67:89:AB is natural while 03:23:45:67:89:AB has been created ~Tobi

[@mauricetroisville646]

Willkommen zurück ❤ Ich weiß nicht ob du auch Inspiration durch User annimmst, aber ich fände es toll etwas über die Kombination von Teleport über Tailscale (oder auch andere Mesh-Networks) zu erfahren. 😊 Vielleicht hat ja auch ein anderer User hier Erfahrungen damit und hätte Lust mir ein bisschen Wissen weiterzugeben.

[@itssoaztek4592]

Excellent. Thank you so much!! The timing couldn't be better.

[@kennethbudts105]

Static arp entry on your router/fw to cross subnets would work as well. Thanks for the awesome content

[@davidclark9173]

welcome back you were missed!

[@JavierPerez-fq2fi]

Welcom back Christian! Remember to take it easy after this time off, there is no hurry 😊

[@A4orce84]

Hey Christian - Great video! What do you use to build out your diagrams? I really dig the color scheme and look / feel. Keep up the great content, thanks again!

[@marcelk.4371]

Willkommen zurück Christian 😊

[@patrickambrosso]

Welcome Back Christian!

[@mathesonstep]

Great video Welcome back

[@Psoewish]

This is also really fun to enable on your actual desktop PC and setting up a trigger through say homebridge. Being able to turn my pc on and off whenever is so lovely, I even have it sync with my desk lamp depending on time of day.

[@hagner75]

Nice guide! One difference, at least for me, was that I had to reboot home assistant for it to pick up the entity.

[@Mr.White90]

Hey Christian! It's great to have you back! Keep doing such great videos! One question: What servers are you powering down at night? Are you shutting them down manuall or automatically? Grüße aus Deutschland!

[@markloughtonUK]

Perfect. I'll use it with the Work Day Integration and automate the startup so it doesn't turn on at weekends or holidays. Thanks !

[@lukaswalker2342]

very helpful video love the in-detail explanations

[@christianlempa]

Glad it was helpful!

[@IJayJayI]

This is a wonderful video - great instructions. Another alternative is what I do is use govee smart plugs. After powering off pc safetly remotely i shut the power off in the govee app. In the bios of the server pc i make sure that power turns on when power is detected. So when i turn power back on on the govee smart plug my server will auto power on. Just another alternative :)

[@nalle475]

Welcome back 😊

[@ArifKamaruzaman]

Ey good to see another video.

[@BGroothedde]

Awesome video. Do you have a video on your terminal configuration? I love the lines before each prompt

[@IwishIcanFLighT]

Great video! Wake On Lan is neat, I've used it a lot in the past. But after trying the PiKVM I highly prefer its reliability with remote ATX control, plus all the other benefits of the PiKVM. TBF it might be a bit overkill if it's just to wake up a secondary server from time to time.

[@sivi151]

Free vs 300 eur/device does not compare really in the real world

[@naveentechs]

@@sivi151 not if you can make one yourself for less than 100$

[@jakobholzner]

Why wouldn’t you start the VM via WakeOnLan? 10:43

[@christianlempa]

You can easily start a VM using the hypervisor or API

[@michaelhess4825]

This is a good intro. I would like to point out wol is not used (or shouldn't be) in business/enterprise/carrier networks. Either use remote managed pdu's for physical, or api calls if using virtualization. If you need to use it for bulk updates of clients for example, make sure you have acl's on your switch infrastructure to firewall access from your jump machine only! There are better options, scheduled on/off on the os for example.

[@jakedrake99]

As a newcomer to enterprise IT, why shouldn't it be used?

[@michaelhess4825]

@@jakedrake99 security. Don't want systems turning on when they shouldn't be. Think about relatively insecure dev boxes, cert roots, anything that isn't hardened.

[@lucaannuiti675]

Thank you for continuing sharing knowledge 👍

[@mistakek]

Thanks. This was rather simple, and pfsense has wake on lan service. Now I don't have to walk across the room to turn on my test system when I want to try something on it. 🤣

[@mmuneebahmed]

How to WoL to a VM or even a container?

[@christianlempa]

You don’t need it on a VM or Container, just use remote commands :D

[@pcroom595]

Welcome back! What about when you don't have /etc/network/interfaces => There's only folders there if-up.d, etc. and in there wpasupplicant. Also writing the command in there doesn't execute after reboot.

[@markandrow4010]

Great tutorial as always, thank you. 👍

[@Jan12700]

Is there a better way with the routing? In the company I work we have a software distribution tool (like the microsoft endpoint configuration manager) that also can send WoL packets, but because the tool runs in the server network and the clients are in their own network section the WoL doesn't work directly with it. We use also a VM that is in the Client network to turn on the clients with a WoL tool. It would be nicer if we just could route the packets directly into the client network.

[@BondiBen]

Hey, thanks for the great video. I am just curious how jou created the overview at 0:44 is that a special program or something?

[@rille47]

Great video, I do magic packets and also use the lom interfaces eg. dell-idrac hpe-ilo supermicro-ipmi and send wake up and shut-down instructions via ssh and scripts.

[@NetScalerTrainer]

My supermicro servers can be powered on by IPMI commands. No OS changes required. When the server boots, the OS just boots up!

[@ThomasEngels-c8x]

Nice Video, will try this night. But I'd like to know whitch Shell you used for the video. I really need this for Linux

[@Siyual]

Interesting, I'd not heard of HomeAssistant before this video. What I was doing was using a Raspberry Pi Zero with a static IP plugged in via USB to my router. If the router is up, it's up. Then I can VPN into my home network, and terminus into the Pi from my phone to run the WoL script. I'll check out home assistant, that looks very useful!

[@yifeiren8004]

Actually, for professional IT, there is HBI that you can use software like MAAS to monitor the server, install system, auto provisioning, etc.

[@Morpheus2515]

Love your videos - which app are you using on your phone to use WOL ?

[@christianlempa]

Home Assistant is pretty easy

[@Morpheus2515]

Thanks will try it out later :)@@christianlempa

[@PicSta]

Hello Chris, thanks a lot for this video. I was looking for a straight forward video about this topic. Have you ever tried UpSnap for your Wake-on-LAN home lab?

[@christianlempa]

Thanks for watching! No I haven't but i'll check it out ;)

[@AntonKrall]

Which terminal / shell are you using on your mac, looks very interesting

[@EduardoRodriguez-fu4ry]

I know this is an older video but super useful, as always. I have a question (no pressure, of course), what if I want to WOL multiple devices. let's say that I have a NAS, a server and a raspberry pi that I want to power off every night and wake up in the morning. I can see how doing the integration with HAS can help to automate this but, to make the button do I need to create a switch in the config file for each device? Or having a switch enables me to create buttons for different devices?

[@christianlempa]

Hey! Glad you found the video helpful! 😊 For waking up multiple devices, you’ll need a switch for each one in your config file. Once you have those set up, you can create buttons for each device easily. So, it’s all about that initial setup, but it’ll make things super smooth after!

[@BurkenProductions]

What software are you making those network drawings in? Looks cool

[@christianlempa]

Apple Keynote :D

[@sidjha4006]

what is this terminal you're using? looks really cool.

[@christianlempa]

Im using Warp, it’s amazing

[@Alistarwormwood]

I'm using kubuntu and don't have network/interfaces. Is there somewhere else I can have this script?

[@awetisimgaming7473]

This seems like a pretty cool idea, but I'm sort of stumped when I comes to mine I think, I have full disk encryption with LUKS, and I'm not sure if the home assistant could detect the prompt, and maybe remote input a password, but I think that would be necessary for me to implement this fully on my machine. Also preferably not storing the password on the home assistant device since that's part of the beauty of my encrypted disk is you're screwed until you have me there to type it in or something

[@andreas.grundler]

It would also be great to be able to schedule the startup and shutdown of the servers. I don't know if every BIOS can do that yet.

[@TomBroyer]

What Terminal are you using in Section 4 of the video? looks nice

[@christianlempa]

Warp

[@VelislavVarbanov]

ip addr show is fine, but ‘ip a s’ is even better 😂. More so ‘ip a’ as show is the default behavior. A neat thing I learned this week after finally ditching ifconfig.

[@JensAndersson]

Great video, thanks

[@Chalisque]

I love wake on lan. I have some HP microservers for NAS's that don't need to be on that often. I have a Thinkpad (with broken screen) as a server for common stuff. All are woken by wakeonlan and suspended/powered-off via ssh. I have a web interface running on my Pi3 so that I can control it all through a browser (e.g. from my phone).

[@TommYFreaK]

How you manage your Servers in Visual Studio?

[@deep_utsav]

Any idea on how I can set it up on ubuntu machine. I can't seem to find the /etc/network/interface file on the system

[@christianlempa]

Yeah, that should be put inside the a yaml config in netplan /etc/netplan/...yaml and then add a "post-up" section under your interface

[@deep_utsav]

@@christianlempa Thanks I'll try it out

[@brianedge6253]

Love the video Christian! Well, I love all your videos, and have been eagerly waiting for anything new. This is a great topic, and I have been using WoL for years, but never was able to get it work on my Linux Server. Tried your method, and can't do it without sudo, so the /etc/network/interfaces change won't work on reboot. :( Anyone on here know the solution? I know this isn't a forum, but if you have an easy answer, I'd appreciate a reply. :)

[@c0p0n]

I don't understand why os support would be required to turn on the computer. The os isn't active, since the computer is powered off. What am I missing?

[@Anklav24]

I've noticed that if my proxmox doesn't shut down properly, such as during a power outage, WoL doesn't work before property reboot. Why?

[@tld8102]

is it safe to leave this feature turned on? what if a device on the network is compromised

[@markloughtonUK]

Anybody know why you have to input the MAC address into the Switch setup and then again into the Button setup ? If you are selecting the switch as part of the button creation process then wont the info already be available to the button ?

[@psicodelico6]

Propagate VLAN to Client works?

[@Nakameguro97]

Suppose the system is hung. Can you reboot the machine using this process?

[@christianlempa]

No, it's just for waking up the PC

[@welovetech7357]

hi, is it possible for os to detect if it was powered by wol or not,?? i have pc whith dualboot windows/linux and i want to set grub tu run windows on normal boot and linux on wol

[@welovetech7357]

second question, you have activated wol at the os level do that change anything to grub ?

[@luismacedo5451]

Hi Chris, Thank you everything you do brother. after doing exactly what you showed, promox still show me the wake on lan as disable. I cheked and rechecked the interfaces document with vim (vim /etc/network/interfaces) and rebooting still shows d instead of g. Im learning using vim at the same time. maybe im doing something wrong in vim with spaces or order of the command?? please help if you can brother.

[@christianlempa]

Let's follow up on Discord, we have a help channel there and others might be able to assist you as well :)

[@ionia-life]

Super video!.. Thanks...

[@ravipratapmishra7013]

Will it work even if server is encrypted(hardisk)?

[@0zzy0zwood]

Please don`t forget to talk about the Security Risks behind the WOL over Internet. Normally it's save to use it on the Local Network (in most cases), but especially it's used over internet, it could be a not so harmless risk!!!