I couldnt find the setting to enable wake on lan in bios i enabled everything that sounded right in power management and made sure erp was disable and it wasnt working i also made sure on my controller in dev manager had wol enabled and it still didnt work so i went on the wolow website and followed the five step tutorial. it told me to use ipconfig in cmd which wasnt knew but when i typed ipconfig/all like it said it gave me the info i needed for the app and now it works also i downloaded wolow companion on pc, the application doesnt open it kinda sits in the background but i think it helped also so i thought id include this. ps sorry for the horrible punctuation

Love the app! It looks and feels really clean and professionally built. Works flawlessly on LAN. Here’s my only problem. I followed the devs advice and setup a vpn software through a raspberry pi called pivpn and can actively and correctly fully get on my home network when off the LAN. I can ssh into home servers I have setup and all that without port forwarding anything so I know my vpn is configured correctly. Unfortunately I can’t remotely turn on my PC when off the LAN but connected to the vpn. I can successfully do it through forwarding ports on router but would rather not expose ports and I noticed the pc status doesn’t really work on WAN. I tried both the broadcast ip and the device ip and was only successfully able to turn the pc on once after several attempts. I would love to be able to turn on my pc away from home. I even paid for the premium features so I would love to have this work but sadly I may have to try and find an alternative route. For now I have just used the vpn to ssh in home server and then remote send WoL packet from command line on home server. Extra steps but still works. No way to contact dev so I’m hoping a response would happen here. Tried all troubleshooting tips on devs website as well. Great app just wish functions would work better.

I bought the premium version and am happy with it. Although something that should be added to the troubleshooting section is on windows, the companion app doesn’t start unless the user logs on. I had to create a task to start the program on boot since I also use it as a home server and often turn it off and on without ever logging on. Overall though the app is very convenient for a gaming pc/home server since I don’t have to leave it running all day or go physically turn it on and off multiple times a day.

It took me a second for Wake on WAN as im kinda new to networking. I Have a unifi Dream machine pro. Here’s how it works for me. Configure your BiosConfigure on windowsInstall companion appVPN for your network (I just use the teleport VPN in my UDM Pro)Create a device entry into the wolow app Fill in everything the as normal but point the IpAddress to the specific ip of the computer you want to wake. Set a static Arp entry or bind your computers MAC address to a FIXED IP you have given itIn my Udm pro i set the ARP CACHE timeout to “min DHCP lease”. Connect To VPN and send magic packet from appSo far it works great however i had to create a second entry in the wolow app for LAN because the packet wont send from lan to the specific ip. It appears that when im at home on my network directly (no vpn) it must be sent to the broadcast address (x.x.x.255) When VPNing into my network broadcast packets cannot be sent.So having 1 entry for wan and one for lan is really only a very mild inconvenience.