Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
wake up mini without mouse or keyboard
- Thread starter donw35
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
GGJstudios
macrumors Westmere
If you're on the same network, Screen Sharing should wake it. If not, you can use Caffeine to temporarily override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake with a click on the Menu Bar icon. Another click turns it off.
spacesamurai
macrumors member
You can send it a "magic" UDP packet to wake it up via network. Got a couple of programs to do this for you.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20110/wakeonlan-command-line
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20110/wakeonlan-command-line
swordfish5736
macrumors 68000
There is a setting for this in system prefs. I think it's in energy saver. Something along the lines of wake on LAN
DrakkenWar
macrumors 6502
Wake on LAN
While I see "Wake on LAN" on my 10.5 and 10.6 machines. I don't see it here with 10.7.x.
But, as has been said before, one of the easiest ways to wake a mac without a keyboard and/or need for one is via screen sharing. I know I do this multiple times a day from either my laptop down in the kitchen to my mini here in my office upstairs, or my wife's macbook across the hall. Works every time, and does not necessitate the install of yet another program.
So unless you are running your mini CLI, this seems to be the easiest fix for the issue at hand.
While I see "Wake on LAN" on my 10.5 and 10.6 machines. I don't see it here with 10.7.x.
But, as has been said before, one of the easiest ways to wake a mac without a keyboard and/or need for one is via screen sharing. I know I do this multiple times a day from either my laptop down in the kitchen to my mini here in my office upstairs, or my wife's macbook across the hall. Works every time, and does not necessitate the install of yet another program.
So unless you are running your mini CLI, this seems to be the easiest fix for the issue at hand.
swordfish5736
macrumors 68000
It's there on my iMac running 10.7. Second checkbox down in the energy saver pref pane.
DrakkenWar
macrumors 6502
I stand corrected!
Correct and right where you said it would be. An oversite on my part. Thanks much for setting the record strait.
Correct and right where you said it would be. An oversite on my part. Thanks much for setting the record strait.
swordfish5736
macrumors 68000
No problem. It seems like they've reorganized some of the other items in system prefs with recent updates so I wasn't sure if they had moved it to a different location.