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Turn on computer using my mobile?

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So I was thinking there is any easy way that I can turn my PC on using my phone? Something to do with the Mac address right?

 
You can't really turn it on from a cold boot with your phone - not easily anyway. You can do Wake on Lan with 'magic packets' but that really only works if the machine is in a sleep or hibernate state.

 
And let's say difficult way? Let's say is that even possible to turn on PC by using smart phone? @Zeito

 
Just IL Sea Lion said:
And let's say difficult way? Let's say is that even possible to turn on PC by using smart phone? @Zeito
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from a cold start? You need what's called Out-Of-Band management. it's a common feature on most servers, i.e. HP iLO, Dell DRAC etc. however the OOBM card requires constant power and network, as well as physical connection to your computer.

Turning on your pc is still an electro-mechanical process, when you push that physical power switch, it effectively shorts 2 pins in the PSU connector (look up the paperclip test) which then provides the power for the rest of the system to boot up. Unless you want to create some bizarre device that you can operate remotely to physically push the switch for you - OOBM is your best bet.

You might find this handy: http://superuser.com/questions/319859/remotely-turning-on-or-rebooting-a-frozen-computer

And no, I do not know how to create said device. You'd need to look into Arduino/Lego Mindstorms/Something else along those lines.

Again, this whole thing begs the question 'Why?'

 
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