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Hello all.  I have been successfully able to let my emby computer go to sleep and use Emby to wake it while I'm on my home network, but I cannot get it to do the same when I'm away from home.  Is that possible, and if so can anyone provide tips on how?

 

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mastrmind11
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Hello all.  I have been successfully able to let my emby computer go to sleep and use Emby to wake it while I'm on my home network, but I cannot get it to do the same when I'm away from home.  Is that possible, and if so can anyone provide tips on how?

 

I appreciate you all!

From a simple google search, it appears as though you just need to forward port 7 or 9 UDP to your internal server address.

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Yea but even when doing that, the apps are currently sending out the wol packets based on lan addresses, so it will not work.

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Thanks mastrmind11, I did search google with no luck.  I tried your suggestion and it seems to be working, so thanks a ton!  Mind you I only tried via my android app while not on my WiFi.  I'll test on my mother-in-law's Roku at some point as she's usually the only one that uses my server that's not in my home.  Luke I can report back my findings if you'd like.  

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It's OK, we would have to change the way we broadcast the wake on lan packets in order to support this. Thanks.

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