[chbot] WWOL for Android

[Blair Inglis]

imo, i would grab the android devkit and write a quick app (background
service) to poll the server and turn on/off the screen wakelock when you
want the screen on.

it could also theoretically launch the browser/vnc/etc as required

-Blair

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, 12:39 Mark Atherton, <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 wake 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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