From what I've already found on here and wider searches I think the answer is no, but as the newest posts I've found are reasonably old now it might be that a solution has come along.
This weekend I finally got round to setting up my Airport Extreme after getting a stand alone modem for it.
All is working like a charm! I can access the hdd attached to the airport and I can use Parallels Access to connect to my MBP from my iPhone, both when it's already on, and when I put it to sleep with the lid open. This works both when the iPhone is connected to the same wifi network or when connecting via cellular.
The problem I have though is that when I finish with my MPB my natural action is to close the lid to put it to sleep until I want to use it again. However, in this seemingly special 'lid closed sleep' I cant remote access the MBP as my iPhone cant wake it. Either on Wifi or cellular.
From what I can see, that seems to be that, and the only way to wake a lid closed MBP is via connected local peripherals or not putting it to sleep? This seems like a bit of an oversight in an age when things are becoming more and more mobile?
N.B. the goal of all this is to be able to access my sleeping and closed MBP from my iPhone, when i'm nowhere near home. Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this?
This weekend I finally got round to setting up my Airport Extreme after getting a stand alone modem for it.
All is working like a charm! I can access the hdd attached to the airport and I can use Parallels Access to connect to my MBP from my iPhone, both when it's already on, and when I put it to sleep with the lid open. This works both when the iPhone is connected to the same wifi network or when connecting via cellular.
The problem I have though is that when I finish with my MPB my natural action is to close the lid to put it to sleep until I want to use it again. However, in this seemingly special 'lid closed sleep' I cant remote access the MBP as my iPhone cant wake it. Either on Wifi or cellular.
From what I can see, that seems to be that, and the only way to wake a lid closed MBP is via connected local peripherals or not putting it to sleep? This seems like a bit of an oversight in an age when things are becoming more and more mobile?
N.B. the goal of all this is to be able to access my sleeping and closed MBP from my iPhone, when i'm nowhere near home. Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this?