UPDATE: WakeOnLan is on testing. Please vote so it can move into the extras repository.

Now available on extras-devel a new utility to wake computers on the same LAN when connected to WIFI.

I don't like keeping my media server on all the time. I like even less to have to leave the couch to power it up when I want to listen to some music, see pictures or watch a movie stored on it.

This application is part of my solution. I can have the computer on standby mode (sleeping), or even powered off, and still turn it on remotely using my n900.

One of the painful steps for most users is to find the mac address for the computer you want to send "wake up" calls, on this application you can type the ip address or the remote host name and it will try to figure out the mac address for you using arping (please note that the computer must be on to work and if using the host name it should be "visible")

p.s. The icons should probably be replaced but I didn't want to wait and find some free good ones before publishing it. If you know of some or are willing to create some to replace these let me know

p.s.(2) for some reason on my n900 the icon is not showing up on the menu after installation - it shows a blue rectangle. I must have done something wrong or it is something wrong with my n900 (it has happened to some other applications I installed lately - after rebooting they show up). And just in case: I do have the postinst run gtk-update-icon-cache. Let me know if it works or not for you ...