WOL issue

I recently set up OMV 5 on an AMD system (A75m-itx motherboard). It connects through the onboard Gbit capable NIC. Its an RTL8111E. I have the autoshutdown plugin installed and suspend after set time works.

However I don't know how to wake up the system once it goes into suspend. Since the machine has suspended, I don't see it having an IP address (from my routers list of connected clients). Also it does not advertise any network drives on the routers network.

At first I thought I was doing something wrong in my BIOS setting or my motherboard did not support or some error on my end. But after endlessly looking on the web, I came across this wiki article, which pointed me to a wol application. This application wakes up my OMV system from suspend. So clearly this application sends some "magic packet" which wakes up the system.

Question to the community: How do you wake up your NAS systems once the machine is suspended?

My use case is that I have 5 clients connecting to the SMB share on the network. One is a Ubuntu desktop, W10 laptop, Kodi running on a RPI, one android phone, one iphone.

The phones connect to the SMB share primarily to dump pics on to the SMB share. While I certainly want to suspend the system when not in use, I don't want to always use a command line application to wake up my system and then access the shared drive. Any insights on how to best to wol the system?

Zitat von thedarkness

WOL can be triggered in different ways.
Some advanced routers have it integrated in their WebUI, or you could use an app from your smartphone.

You could also schedule a wake up, there's a plugin for that.

Thanks for the response.

I can trigger through router, or desktop application etc. But those are some extra steps to be accessing a shared network drive. I guess thats the price to pay to be putting the system on suspend.

Scheduling a wake up is a good idea. But my use case is mostly random. Need to access on demand.

Yeah. I might have to live with some extra steps to go save some power. Though energy is not super expensive where I live, my conscience pricks me when I waste power!