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PC wireless on/off switch

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Hello everyone, I'm going to be making a wall mounted pc and it's going to be a bit far from my desk, so I was thinking that if there was some sort of device that connects to home wifi and to the power pins on the mobo to act like a power button and can be activated from a mobile phone that would be sick. I looked around but couldn't quite find anything, I was thinking even an Arduino could work with coding but they're quite expensive and I don't know how to code anyways, if anyone has any ideas that would be sick if you could drop them down below, thanks!

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What you need is called WOL or Wake On Lan, most motherboards will support that feature. A device on the same network, say your smartphone, sends a packet to your motherboard that wakes it up. No need for a secondary device. That technology has been around for over a decade.

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I saw something similar. But i think it was a bluetooth device. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Wireless-Interface-ES02-USB/dp/B01MQUANS8 found it.

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12 hours ago, Applefreak said:

What you need is called WOL or Wake On Lan, most motherboards will support that feature. A device on the same network, say your smartphone, sends a packet to your motherboard that wakes it up. No need for a secondary device. That technology has been around for over a decade.

I've read about wol but I found out a bunch of motherboards don't have support for it so I was looking into other ways to go about it, although if im wrong you're welcome to correct me on that, also do you know what app I would need on my phone to make it work? Would it be up to the mobo's brand to have their own app or is there some universal one?

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11 hours ago, MartinKweh said:

I saw something similar. But i think it was a bluetooth device. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Wireless-Interface-ES02-USB/dp/B01MQUANS8 found it.

Thanks for the link and yeah, it looks like it's either bt or ir controlled, I may end up using something like that if nothing else, but thanks for reply

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