Note - you will need the target PC to have a fixed local IP address (usually in the format .x) and you will also need to know the MAC address of the network connection it uses. I’ll give a more detailed version below. This took a bit of time to figure out as many of the things required I hadn’t used before, but it wasn’t as tricky as I’d expect. I followed the (not in depth) article on the SmartThings forum written by rontalley. Using SmartThings seemed a more reliable way to achieve the same thing, with the added benefit that I can override the behaviour at any time from the convenient of my phone. I originally looked at doing this with an energy saving “smart” socket, but most of these have been discontinued and the reviews of them are mixed at best. This is so that when a PC goes to sleep I can use a routine in smartthings to turn off a power adapter with the home cinema amplifiers plugged in. Lastly, I wanted to get the status of a PC in SmartThings. This is reasonably straight-forward to set up, again I detail how below Next I wanted to be able to control Kodi remotely via smartthings. I have achieved this, although the process is quite a long one to set up. Firstly I wanted to be able to put my PCs to sleep and wake them up again via a button in SmartThings.
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