It's easy to wake your computer with Wake-On-Lan
Now you can send your computer back to sleep with Sleep-On-Lan!
npm install -g sleep-on-lan
$ sleep-on-lan --help
Usage: sleep-on-lan [options]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-p, --port <port> Port to run server on (default: 57339)
-H, --host <host> Interface to run server on (default: 0.0.0.0)
-u, --url <url> URL to trigger sleep (default: sleep)
-w, --wait <ms> Wait in milliseconds before sleeping (default: 3000)
-d, --daemonize Daemonize the sleep server
-l, --log <file> Sends output to a logfile
-n, --no-periodic-wake Prevents the system from waking every 2 hours for WOL compatibility (Mac OSX)
See this article for more information on the --no-periodic-wake
option
Host A
$ sleep-on-lan
Listening at http://0.0.0.0:57339/sleep
Host B
$ curl http://host-a:57339/sleep...
ok
Host A
#1:
Sleeping in 1000ms
Time: Fri Jun 13 2014 22:32:47 GMT+1000 (EST)
IP address: 10.0.0.1
... and when it wakes...
#2:
Woke
Time: Fri Jun 13 2014 22:36:15 GMT+1000 (EST)
sleep-on-lan
at startup$ crontab -e
# insert the line:
@reboot sleep-on-lan -d -l ~/log.txt
# save and exit
crontab: installing new crontab
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