Unless you online off-the-grid as well as have plentiful complimentary electricity, leaving your rig on while you go away on trips is barely economic. So if you’re like [Josh Forwood] as well as you occur to utilize a remote desktop client all the time while on the road,  you may be thinking about this bit hack he threw together. It’s a remote Power-On-PC from anywhere device.

It’s really exceptionally simple. just one Arduino. He’s piggybacking off of the exceptional Teleduino software application by [Nathan] who really provided him a hand manipulating it for his purpose. The Arduino runs as a low-power server which enables [Josh] to gain access to it by means of a safe web site login. From there, he can send a WOL packet to his different computers to wake them up.

The system is working so well, he’s set it up with all his roommates’ computers as well, providing each their own login info on the Arduino’s page to enable them to gain access to their own computer. Not a individual fellow, he likewise desired a method to tell when his desktop would be prepared to access…

To do that, he configuration a MySQL database to compare time stamps on the computer as well as  local time — when it’s within 60 seconds it understands the computer is prepared to go. type of overkill if you ask us, thinking about you might just have a 60 second timer on the web site instead… Anyway, it’s a wonderful hack as well as incredibly helpful for those of us with several computers at home.

All the information to do it yourself is offered over at Hackaday.io!