BootBoi

Ever wanted to turn on your remote machine (laptop, Raspberry, NAS), but didn't want to leave the couch? Well I for sure understand this problem to the heart. But fear no more, as BootBoi is here to save you from the gruesome task of standing up and pushing a button.

BootBoi features remote power on / power off / reboot for as many remote machines as you can imagine with the combined power of ssh and Wake On Lan.

Preparing your Remote Machine

• Before you can use BootBoi with your remote machines, you have to prepare them for remote rebooting and powering them on/off.

  Power On

• To power a remote device on, BootBoi uses Wake On Lan.
• This needs to be enabled in the BIOS of the machine you want to power on, read more here.

Power Off / Reboot

• BootBoi uses SSH to execute whoami, poweroff and reboot on the remote machine.
• So make sure that
  1. Those binaries are available and in $PATH
  2. The SSH user has sudo access to whoami, poweroff and reboot
     • Either by allowing the user sudo access only to those binaries via the sudoers file (recommended)
       • E.g. echo "my_ssh_user ALL=(ALL) /sbin/reboot,/sbin/poweroff,/usr/bin/whoami" >> /etc/local/sudoers
     • Or by using root as SSH user in BootBoi

Release

Google Play

• Setup gradle and keystore for release: Follow https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android
• cd android and ./gradlew bundleRelease
• Change BOOTBOI_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD and BOOTBOI_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD in android/gradle.properties accordingly
• To test the release, run npx react-native run-android --variant=release, it will create a release apk to android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk

Development

Remote Communication Module

• BootBoi uses this Remote Communication Module to use Java APIs for rebooting and powering on/off.

Environment

• yarn start to start the development server
  • reload with r
• yarn android to build the android app (dev server needs to be running), only needed when dependencies in package.json or native source changes
• If you get Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache: Need to lower JDK version (tested with JDK 11)