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I wanted to be able to physically start a home computer remotely.

- raspberry pi
- power relay to simulate the button
- a messenger chatbot linked to my account only

Now my local server is startable from anywhere

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  • 2
    @ostream no just having it short the button wires would do it, I think having an autopusher would be fun tho
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    Yeah, "buy a motherboard with WoL" is my solution...
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    My server is always on and in case of a power outage it just restarts. Now guess what my Shelly does when I can't reach it.
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    RiPi and WoL? Not as cool as a relay though.

    Could make a robot arm that physically presses the power button. That would be neat.
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    I've been using pikvm for about a year now, I'm also donating to the project:
    pikvm.org
    Also, you should really join the discord server

    (It's an IPKVM, so you can turn your computer on/off, see the screen, boot disk images, ...)
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    @Nanos a second Raspberry Pi.
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