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## What is espwol?
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I wanted to connect to my home PC from work, which alweady has Windows RDC setup
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I wanted to connect to my home PC from work, which already has Windows RDC setup
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and forwarded. However, I always find myself in the situation of forgetting to
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power on my PC before I leave.
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WoL(Wake on LAN) is definitly a valid solution, I just need to send a magic
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WoL(Wake on LAN) is definitely a valid solution, I just need to send a magic
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packet to my PC to turn it on but the issue is I do not have a `Ethernet`
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connection to my PC, and WoL is almost imposible to do with `WiFi cards`.
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connection to my PC, and WoL is almost impossible to do with `WiFi cards`.
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Instead of using the `WoL` feature of my motherboard, `espwol` uses a
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WiFi connected `ESP8266 NodeMCU` to received post requests and activates
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**However, this is not recommended if you do not have authentication
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set up, which is what is in place now.**
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What I do is I connect through my server that has `OVPN` setup with proper
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What I do is I connect through my server that has `Open VPN` setup with proper
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authentication and then I can send a post request to e.g.`192.168.0.100` just
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like I'm at home.
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## Hardware Design
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The hardware of the solution is fiarly simple consisting of only 3 components,
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of course, you need your jumpers, perfboards or fancy sockets if you want.
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The hardware of the solution is fairly simple consisting of only 3 components,
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of course, you need your jumpers, perf-boards or fancy sockets if you want.
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### List of Components
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![Fritzing Breadboard](./img/breadboard.png)
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![Schematic](./img/schematic.png)
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### Wireing
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### Wiring
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1. `+5V` and `GND` to `vin` and `GND` pin on ESP
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2. `pin 1` of `PC817` to 150Ω resistor then `D0`(aka `GPIO16`)
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3. `pin 2` of `PC817` to `GND`
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4. connect whatever connector you like for the input and output pins,
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i just used some standard two screw PCB termination blocks.
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I just used some standard two screw PCB termination blocks.
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We also need two sets of connects from the PC to the ESP
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1. Connect `GND` of powersupply to `GND` of ESP,
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1. Connect `GND` of power supply to `GND` of ESP,
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you can find a GND wire on the `24 pin`,`PCI-E`,`SATA` or
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any kind of wire that comes out from your PSU, it's almost always a black one.
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The software of this design is very simple, I just need a server that connects
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to my home WiFi and listens to `POST` requests on a endpoint. Since I will be
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running this in my local network only, I didn't implement any security features,
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but definitly a future TODO.
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but definitely a future TODO.
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The server is written using [aREST](https://github.com/marcoschwartz/aREST) by @ma
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rcoschwartz which makes it super easy to create a endpiont to send requests.
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The server is written using [aREST](https://github.com/marcoschwartz/aREST)
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by @marcoschwartz which makes it super easy to create a end-point
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to send requests.
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Theres only a couple of lines that I added to the boiler plate code of the library
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I'm using `platform.io` through `VSCODE` but you can write the script in
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I'm using `platform.io` through `VSCode` but you can write the script in
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`ArduinoIDE`; however, you you need to install the `aREST` library regardless.
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