• Home Automation,  Mac OS X

    Wake-on-Magic-Packet

    Wake-on-Magic-Packet, WOMP is pretty much Wake-on-LAN. Essentially, WOMP allows a network interface to be active even when the computer is asleep. Then, when it gets a specially formatted packet, which we call the magic packet (’cause turning something on when it’s sleeping without hitting a button is pretty cool, right?!?!) can be sent to the IP of the system to fire it up. The magic packet is a packet where the packet payload consists of 6 bytes worth of ones in a row followed by the computers MAC address repeated 16 times. You can enable WOMP for OS X using the Options tab of the Energy System Preference pane. Simply…