[chbot] WWOL for Android

[Charles Manning]

I am not an Android programmer, but I would expect that there are ways to
go to sleep setting a wake up sometime in the future.

Maybe there's something down this bunny hole:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 2:53 PM Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> 30 sec would probably be OK.
>
> Please explain 'the alarm'
>
> On 3/21/2024 2:27 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> > How responsive does it need to be?
> > I wonder whether you could "cheat" and use the alarm?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 12:39 PM Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz
> > <mailto:markaren1 at xtra.co.nz>> wrote:
> >
> >     All,
> >
> >     I am hoping to use a bunch of older Android tablets in the garage as
> >     display devices. These units will be wired to 5V chargers and
> hopefully
> >     can be configured so they can be placed in a low power mode with
> >     wireless switched on and attached to the local WiFi network. All high
> >     power stuff (graphics, backlight) of the tablets will be switched
> off.
> >
> >     When the units need to display something, I am hoping to wake them
> >     up by
> >     sending a magic packet to each of the devices MAC addresses, and
> waking
> >     them up using Wireless Wake On LAN.
> >
> >     With the devices awake and a browser running in each device and
> >     attached
> >     to a small local HTTP server, messages can then be served to each
> >     device
> >     to be displayed.
> >
> >     There seem to be lots of stuff on the web about using an Android
> device
> >     to wak a PC, but little about waking an Android Device from a PC.
> >
> >     Does anyone have any experience waking Android 10 devices remotely ?
> >
> >     Thanks, Mark
> >
> >
> >
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