EventGhost

Hi,

Since a long time i was searching a tool which could forward a magic packet to another lan pc (PC2).

My router doesn't keep arp table so i can't use wake on lan over the net (wake on wan).

But my pc with eventghost is always on and i would use it to forward the magic packet to the another pc.

I never found a tool like this and today i find this EG plugin: "Broadcaster".

It seems to be what i'm looking for.

So i opened udp port 9 to PC EG and added broadcaster plugin on it.
I change the port to 9 in plugin settings too.
Then i try to send a magic packet from another pc on the web.
EG say me:

Broadcast listener on 192.168.1.2:9. Self broadcast is False.
error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel <eg.CorePluginModule.Broadcaster.Server connected 192.168.1.2:9 at 0x39baaa8> (<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>:empty separator [asyncore.pyc|read|76] [asyncore.pyc|handle_read_event|414] [C:\Program Files\EventGhost\plugins\Broadcaster\__init__.py|handle_read|92])

Can you help me

Thanks

I am not an expert on WAN - LAN communication, but I suspect it would be difficult to send an UDP broadcast command from the internet to your EG PC via your router.

I think it might be better if you investigate the option of sending a command from outside of your LAN via one of the instant messenger plugins that are available for EG.
Pako has made some interesting stuff you could use for this: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3517&hilit=growl#p19798.
Use the command you send from WAN to trigger an action in Eventghost to issue a Wake On Lan command to the PC of your choice. The WOL command can be found under the standard 'System' plugin that comes preloaded and it uses the MAC address of the ethernet card of the target PC, so you don't need the IP address of the PC on your LAN.

Good luck
Perry

Hi, i didn't saw the "WOL" plugin.

Si it works now : i use web server to trigger the wol command.

Thanks