hi,
I want to know how i can power up the PC based on the clock? It's just like our alarm in mobile even though i turn off the mobile if the alarm was set i should be able to power up the PC based on the time set before power off. How can i do this? My initial idea is like i want to try it out in windows which would ask for time and date to be set and based on that i would also ask to choose a music file or play list to be chosen and would play the same based on the settings made? It's one of my little dream project's.
Note: Language is not a barrier for this, I am ready to try it out in either C# or VC++ or C in the worst case if the process forces me to do that i would go for VB.
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Karthik AgarwalPosted Dec 16, 2011, 4:52 AM
Anyways what i want is i will set time and date in windows form kind of thing(in a stand alone PC) then if i go to windows button and click shut down button and then based on the time and date it should turn on. That is what i mean to say. Hope you will clear this time. I hope there should be a way to do this.
Sam HobbsPosted Dec 16, 2011, 4:16 AM
Programs such as Lookout Security & Antivirus can turn on a phone's GPS (if it is off) in the phone and get the phone's location without the person with the phone knowing that is being done, all from a server someplace. This is done for security so if a phone is stolen, the phone's owner can determine the location of the phone but the thief does not know it is being done and the phone's owner does not want them to be able to stop it. The phone's owner just uses a browser and an internet connection to request that Lookout get the phone's location.
EveryTrail can keep track of where you are when hiking so then you can upload that information for future reference. EveryTrail can track your location because it executes on a timer to periodically get the location.
Karthik AgarwalPosted Dec 16, 2011, 1:41 AM
Sam HobbsPosted Dec 16, 2011, 1:02 AM
What mobile turns itself on when it is turned off? Note that smart phones have a switch that turns off the display but it does not turn off the processor from executing. The processor continues to execute some programs. That is the reason why the batteries of smart phones drain so quickly. Supposedly law enforcement can turn on a phone that is turned off and that is very much like what a PC does for a wake on LAN. Do you know of any phone that can turn itself on when it has been powered off? I don't mean the type of off that we usually do with smart phones; with smart phones, I mean the same thing as shutting down the system and then the system must be restarted (rebooted) before it does anything. When a smart phone is truly off, it does not receive calls.
Karthik AgarwalPosted Dec 16, 2011, 12:29 AM
Sam HobbsPosted Dec 15, 2011, 3:28 PM
I am not sure you can do it by time. I do know that it is very normal for a computer to be woken up by anohter computer in the network. The following are a few articles about that. Note that this is not the same as powering up; this will only wake up a computer that is sleeping, since the network card needs to have power. So you might be able to get a network card that supports doing the wake up based on a time. Or perhaps a router could do it; I am only guessing about that. Anyway, I hope the following helps get you started.