WakeUp for iPhone and iPod touch
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Maybe you’ve got an Airport Express hooked up to your stereo - and it pulls from iTunes on your computer upstairs. You want to listen to some music - but you’re comfy on the sofa and you don’t want to go upstairs and wake up the Mac. Or the PC for that matter. If you can muster the strength to retrieve your trusty iPhone from the coffee table you don’t have to get up.
WakeUp is from the same people who make this handy Wake-on-Lan Widget that Murphy posted about long ago. (so long ago that Apple TV was called iTV.) It’s 99 cents in the App Store. Link to WakeUp in iTunes.
With WakeUp you can send a magic packet to sleeping computers, as long as they’re wired into your Ethernet network - and have their Wake-On-Lan ability activated. See this post for more details.
Now your computer is awake, and you can use your iPhone or iPod to remote control iTunes.
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1. December 2008 at 7:51 am :
So I assume you have to leave iTunes open before your computer goes to sleep for this to work?
1. December 2008 at 12:40 pm :
You mean if you want to start using iTunes as soon as the machine wakes up? Yes. You could make that more convenient a couple ways though. Read my post about Skype: Always Wake Up Invisible. It cover Sleepwatcher which is a useful tool for having things happen before a machine goes to sleep. Or you could set an Applescript to launch iTunes with an email. I have plenty of posts that cover kicking off a task with email. Or you could use ssh to start iTunes.
7. December 2008 at 4:27 pm :
Remote Buddy is very useful to do a lot of things on your mac from your iPhone (ie : launching itunes).
7. December 2008 at 4:30 pm :
Oh, and SleepOver seems to be better than WakeUp (but more expensive).
14. February 2011 at 2:44 am :
Unable to find your Magic Packet app on iTunes.
Will it work with iPod touch?
I wish to use it to wake up a Windows 7 computer used to store video files.
Can you help?
31. March 2011 at 4:48 am :
I want to wake my stereo. Any solutions - iclapper anyone?