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 <p>DATE: Thu 19 Dec 2024 18:35 By: konsthol@pm.me</p>
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 <h1 id="the-magic-of-wake-on-lan">The magic of Wake-On-LAN</h1>
-<p>Years ago, some good friends of mine gifted me for my birthday, a
-Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of ram. It was and still is the most thoughful
-gift anyone has ever gotten for me. It aligns perfectly with my hobbies
-and I used it for a long time as a VPN server using WireGuard and I also
-played around with Pi-hole for a while as a network-wide ad blocker.</p>
-<p>Eventually I became more interested in cloud computing and started
-self hosting many services on a VPS that I rent through MVPS. It has 4GB
-of ram and has currently many of the services I use in a day-to-day
-basis like my Gitea server, Searx, NTFY and many others. While it was
-definetely doable for the Raspberry Pi to host these, the 2GB of ram
-would not allow for every service to be run at the same time. You see,
-my friends were lucky to even find one because it was in the middle of
-the chip shortage problems.</p>
-<p>One day as I was thinking about what kind of projects could I utilize
-a single Raspberry Pi for, it hit me. A simple Wake-On-LAN server. It
-requires almost no resources as it just needs to stay on and send out
-wol packages when I need it to. The Raspberry Pi is connected using
-Wi-Fi to the same network as my laptop. Usually if I wanted to wake my
-laptop up using Wake-On-LAN I would need to have it plugged with an
-ethernet cable with the router. However, the Raspberry Pi has an
-ethernet port and a cable has two ends. Which lead me to try to connect
-one end to the Pi and another one to the laptop. At first I begun with a
-simple shell script that used etherwake. A simple command-line tool that
-sends Wake-On-LAN Magic Packets. It worked like a charm. I had enabled
-Wake-On-LAN in my laptop’s BIOS, it was enabled on the operating system,
-which I checked using ethtool and it was super easy to remotely wake my
-laptop up using a Termux shortcut on my phone which used ssh to connect
-to the Raspberry Pi and from there execute the etherwake command.</p>
-<p>That setup was wonderful but I wanted to make it even better. It
-wasn’t actually a Wake-On-LAN server at this point. The only service
-that was running on the Pi was SSH and I just used a command to wake
-just my laptop up. So after some research I came across Flask. With
-Flask I managed to make an actual server that used routes,
-authentication, logging rate limits and everything needed to make it
-robust, secure and functional. The main reason I currently prefer my
-project over etherwake, even though etherwake is still a great tool that
-follows the Unix philosophy “Do one thing and do it well”, is because of
-it’s dynamic nature. I can configure a .env file with many device’s MAC
-addresses and have as many possible routes as the number of the devices.
-So for a laptop and a desktop I have LAPTOP_MAC=“itsmac” and
-DESKTOP_MAC=“itsmac” and can wake them up using http requests in the
-route /wol/laptop and /wol/desktop respectively.</p>
+<p>Years ago, some good friends of mine gifted me a Raspberry Pi 4 with
+2GB of RAM for my birthday. It’s hands down the most thoughtful gift
+I’ve ever received, perfectly matching my hobbies. They were lucky to
+even find one during the chip shortage! I initially used it as a VPN
+server with WireGuard and played around with Pi-hole for network-wide ad
+blocking.</p>
+<p>Eventually, I got into cloud computing and started hosting multiple
+services on a VPS I rent from MVPS. This VPS, with its 4GB of RAM,
+currently runs several of my daily-use services like Gitea, Searx, NTFY,
+and more. Although the Raspberry Pi could theoretically handle these
+services, its 2GB of RAM limited simultaneous operations.</p>
+<p>One day, it hit me: why not use the Raspberry Pi for a simpler
+project like a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) server? It requires minimal resources
+and just needs to stay on and send WOL packets. The Raspberry Pi is
+connected via Wi-Fi to the same network as my laptop. Normally, waking
+up my laptop with WOL would require an Ethernet cable connection to the
+router, but I connected one end to the Pi and the other to the
+laptop.</p>
+<p>I started with a simple shell script using etherwake, a command-line
+tool to send WOL packets. After enabling WOL in my laptop’s BIOS and
+confirming it on the OS using ethtool, I could easily wake my laptop
+remotely using a Termux shortcut on my phone, which SSHed into the
+Raspberry Pi to execute the etherwake command.</p>
+<p>Though this setup worked perfectly fine, I wanted to make it even
+better. Initially, the Raspberry Pi only ran SSH and executed a command
+to wake my laptop. So it wasn’t really a WOL server. After some
+research, I found Flask and created an actual WOL server. This server
+had routes, authentication, logging, rate limits, and more to ensure
+robustness and security.</p>
+<p>What makes my Flask-based server so cool is its dynamic nature. I can
+configure a .env file with multiple device MAC addresses, allowing
+numerous routes for different devices. For instance, I have
+LAPTOP_MAC=“itsmac” and DESKTOP_MAC=“itsmac”, enabling me to wake them
+via HTTP requests at /wol/laptop and /wol/desktop, respectively.</p>
+<p>One open-source application that fits my use case is HTTP Shortcuts
+from F-Droid. After configuring a specific route, I can turn it into a
+widget on my home screen. This way, I can wake my laptop up with just a
+tap! Plus, I use dynamic DNS, so my Pi is accessible from anywhere.</p>
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 <p>I would suggest anyone to take a look at my project’s repo and if