Wake mac from sleep with apple remote

I purchased a black 2 GHz MacBook a couple days ago, and stumbled upon this thread. I tried all the mentioned tricks here. Everything that works with the Mac Mini also worked with my MacBook. This includes the sleep, wake, and "remote pairing" functions. Tres chic!

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The first thing I tried after buying my MB was waking the MB with the front row remote while the notebook was closed and an external monitor was connected specifically a mini-dvi to TV adapter from apple to my TV. It worked however I have run into an interesting problem that really needs to be solved.

Although it wakes the computer when you try to play a movie from the movie menu you get sound but no video. Now if you wake the thing with a USB keyboard or mouse first and then use the remote the movie plays just fine.

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Keep in mind these conditions: The MB is closed! No keyboard or mouse! No external mouse needed. I have front row. Of course playing music works fine. The menus work fine. Just the video of the movies are broken?????

Somebody Please help! Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. More Mac Sites: Macworld MacUser iPhone Central. Sleep and wake IR-equipped Macs via the remote Mar 08, '06 Now that I have a mini in house, I can test these types of things, as well as research them. In this case, this feature is documented, though it's quite buried. The mini's manual says that you can use the remote to put the machine to sleep, but then doesn't actually explain anywhere how to do so.

Instead, I found it referenced in the mini's help, in the "putting your computer to sleep" topic. It also mentions there that you can wake the machine by pressing any button on the remote. I tried it, and it works. Note that if you happen to use a remote-equipped Mac in a public place, you may wish to disable the IR remote, lest you find your machine suddenly sleeping thanks to tricksters nearby with their own remotes!

You can do this in the Security System Preferences panel. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. Sleep and wake IR-equipped Macs via the remote Authored by: I works with a MBP also. PopMcGee on Mar 08, '06 Anonymous on Mar 08, '06 Anonymous on Mar 09, '06 I want to setup wake-on-demand as described here so I can remote wake up my iMac and ssh into it while I am oversea.

Currently it is connected to the router with Wifi and I don't have ethernet cable that long enough to connect to the router. I have follow the instructions provided in the article but it is not working. Trying ssh it also failed with timeout.

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I tried to troubleshooting it following this page and found out these from log. Supported Channels: Posted on Jan 9, 3: Page content loaded. Jan 9, 6: The proxy will make it appear as if your sleeping Mac is available to receive messages. When the proxy receives a connection request for the sleeping Mac, it will send a wake-on-lan packet and then forward the connect request to the Mac.

This is best done by the home router. Jan 9, 7: The router or wireless access point has to send the wake message to your Mac.

Jan 9, 8: I also tried to let my MacBook to provide Sleep Proxy. I am trying to send WOL packet using software from http: But it does not wake up my iMac. From Bonjour Browser, I can see my iMac is offerring ssh service. After I turn it to sleep, the service disappeared.

So how can I use Sleep Proxy to make the service appear as avaiable even it is sleepint? I think the main problem is that my iMac think it cannot be wake up from magic packet and therefore give up to register it to the sleep proxy. Jan 10, 6: Have you configured the Airport Express as a bridge or a as a WiFi extender?

Otherwise, it is most likely creating a 2nd subnet. One way to check would be to see what IP addresses each Mac has. If one has I am guessing about the IP subnet address ranges, but in general Apple uses Also if you intend to wake your Mac from a remote location while away from home, I think the Sleep Proxy system needs to be the home primary router connected to the internet do not quote me on this, as I have not played enough with SleepProxy, it is just that I would think the internet connected router would be the one that has to see the incoming request from the internet in order to transfer it to the sleeping Mac inside your home.

Jan 11, 3: I am very sure I only have one subnet. My Airport Express is currently used for another PC that don't have wifi card to connect wifi network.