Server Sleep and Wake on LAN

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Have you read this:

Server Sleep and Wake on Lan

Because we like to think about solutions to the inherent problem at hand, and not a solution to a single situation. We’ve met about this feature multiple times and spent unknown hours discussing it… WoL provides such a bad user experience, and we are trying to fix that core bad experience in a way that doesn’t have us building a complicated WoL system. We can solve it nicely in some simple cases (the one you state), but it’s unclear to me if that is the common case. We’ll keep on thinking ab…

Roon has to work cleanly for all potential installations. Not just one where the Roon topology is fairly simple.

What about cases where there are more than 1 RoonCore on the same network? What about cases where the endpoints are different PCs, do they need a separate WOL? It sounds like a WOL manager is needed.