Send a magic packet to a PC from the PS4?

superfury1

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Is it possible to send magic packets (WOL) from the PS4 to the network? In this case to wake up a WOL-enabled PC? If possible without installing CFW or anything other breaking Sony's license and PSN(I still have games from the PSN I'm playing. Don't want any bans.)?
 

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With CFW might have been tricky even in the best case scenario*. Without it... the PS4 has a web browser so you would probably have to install a custom website/application on a server on your network (raspberry pi, fancy router** that has such functionality, PC that is always otherwise on, phone/tablet perhaps but you would probably just use that...) and browse to that with the PS4 and have that fire the laser wake on lan packet.

*I really dislike most implementations of wake on LAN, and when combined with ISP level routers that have their own ideas about how the world should work... oh dear.

**some are not that fancy when all is said and done actually. See DD-wrt and openwrt ( https://openwrt.org/toh/start#bt ).
 

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