How to wake up the Mac from sleep mode remotely

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I use logmein to remotely control my computers.
Can I wake up the Mac when it's in sleep mode so that it's offline to the outside world?

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Best Answer

From this post:

Most modern computers offer a feature called "Wake on LAN". This is designed to allow a network administrator to turn on a computer remotely, even when it is turned off, by sending a "magic packet". This is used, for instance, to allow backup programs to run at night.

Here is a Python script that does this (if your MAC address is01-23-45-67-89-0a:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
import socket 
s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) 
s.sendto('\xff'*6+'\x01\x23\x45\x67\x89\x0a'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80))

Or you can use Wake550.

or use this site.

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