Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN - MacOS X Software

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:42:32 +0000

@derkallevombau Awesome - great to hear this was helpful!
Took me quite a bit of searching and testing as well. Good to hear it has been of use!

Maybe folks more focus on remote access with Windows (I would assume, mostly Terminal Server or Hyper-V) and not so much macOS?
I honestly have no clue why and if this is considered uncommon for macOS.

For me personally, I'd say most remote machines I use are either Windows or Linux based, and quite often headless.

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:23:59 +0000

@Hans: Thank you very much for your solution. No need to send a magic packet; just execute that caffeinate command via ssh. That's awesome.

I've spent so much time to find a solution. It seems very strange to me that seemingly just a handful people cares about that issue. Is it really that uncommon to use remote desktop software? I'm so glad that I found this thread.

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:31:16 +0000

@davidh -- Nice! Thank you for taking the time to post a thank you, and awesome to hear this was useful for you! 👍 😊

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:06:31 +0000

@Hans, I found this thread extremely helpful and signed up just to thank you.

I was able to enable remote login on my Mac, set up some port forwarding rules in my router and use ssh with private key authentication to wake up my Mac Mini from my Windows PC. I put the ssh command in a PowerShell script and created a Windows shortcut (with a good looking Apple icon) so I can send the "wake" command with a single click.

Bedankt!

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:45:59 +0000

Apple could have made this much easier on all of us - that's for sure 😉

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:51:12 +0000

I just released a new version of miniWOL, which allows running a script after sending a WOL.
So a little script like the one I mentioned can then be executed after sending a WOL signal, allowing you to wake up the screen of your MacBook Pro.

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:24:01 +0000

Things get even crazier ... haha.
You do not even need WOL. Just send the SSH statement straight to the WiFi IP address and not only does your Mac wake up, but the screen turns on as well. You'd need SSH login without a password (see my article "SSH Login without a Password" on how to do this securely).

I've added the caffeinate example there as well.

In short: enable (secure) SSH login on your MacBook, and send this (no WOL needed):

ssh user@server "caffeinate -u -t 1 || exit 1;"

This wakes up my MacBook Pro, and turns on the screen.

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

Hans — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:36:42 +0000

Posted by: @meestor_x

wake the computer via WiFi

Yep, that is what I have found to work ... screen still doesn't go on, but you could trigger that with caffeniate through SSH.
And I agree: crazy ... 😜

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

meestor_x — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:20:58 +0000

Ok, that works. So the workaround is to wake the computer via WiFi, then connect to it via Wired for speed.

Crazy, but it works...

RE: Waking up a Mac with Wake On LAN

meestor_x — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:01:30 +0000

I'll try the WiFi wakeup and see what happens.