WakeOnLan doesn't work

MoonKid · June 29, 2017 at 10:18 PM

In the energy settings of Kodi 17 is the option that known servers could be waked up. When I activate it I get the error message, that the MAC address from the (correct named!) server could not be found out. (sorry it was translation from the german gui).

I tested it directly. I recieved the MAC with ifconfig -a on the machine itself. From another machine I send a "wakeonlan MAC" and it worked.

"etherwake MAC" didn't work! I can not see the diff between this two tools.

Not sure how Kodi tries do find out the MAC of the server.

**Klojum** · June 30, 2017 at 6:51 AM Official Post

Quote from MoonKid

From another machine I send a "wakeonlan MAC" and it worked

What other machine was this? A time machine?

LibreELEC is built on a minimalistic basis for a reason, it does not have every tool in the shed.

MoonKid · June 30, 2017 at 7:56 AM

It is a QNAP NAS but not with the QNAP operatiing system! There is my own Debian stable on the machine.

The question is how does Libre/Kodi tries to wake up the machine? And how does it try to find out the mac address?

**CvH** · June 30, 2017 at 8:56 AM Official Post

Are you using profiles at Kodi ?

MoonKid · June 30, 2017 at 9:14 AM

No profiles