Send WOL packet when connecting to a client

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Hi DieBagger!

Now that power options are added to the remote control, it would be wonderful 
to have support for waking up clients from the app. This is what I would do:

- Add the option to specify MAC address in client options menu (I think that 
WOL packets can be send just with the IP address, but it is safer to use the 
MAC address)
- In the "Choose client" screen, when the user clicks on "Connect", 
automatically send the WOL packet even if the client is awake, that way we 
ensure that it would be waken up.

What's your opinion? How did you plan to add this feature?

Many thanks for your hard work and congratulations for the last improvements, 
the app is now more responsive and it looses connection less times ;-)

Regards,

Aitor

Original issue reported on code.google.com by riturr...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2011 at 1:44

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WOL support will be definately implemented, especially since I realized that I 
can week my server out of S3 with magic packets...

Also I can reuse the classes from the xbmc remote for this so not even that 
much work... ;)

Probably a) menu entry Wake client on home screen/remote screen and b) Wake 
server menu on the tvserver section. An option to "Automatically wake on 
connect" also sounds like a good feature.

Original comment by bgmei...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2011 at 2:59

• Changed title: Send WOL packet when connecting to a client
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by bgmei...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2011 at 8:05

• Changed state: Fixed