In another variation of this issue, the Mac might take far too long to wake up.
How to Fix Your Mac Not Waking Up on macOS 10.14Īfter installing the macOS 10.14 updates, a user can run into issues with the Mac’s sleep and wake functions wherein the Mac refuses to wake when expected or the OS fails to launch after going to sleep, even after the power button or any button on the keyboard is pressed ad nauseam. No worries, here will tell you how to fix your Mac not waking from sleep on macOS 10.14 easily and quickly. As a macOS Mojave user, you may be astounded to find yourself asking what you should do if your mac won’t turn on because you’ve probably presumed that this issue, which has plagued the previous versions, has been addressed in the latest MacOS update.
It’s common for Mac users to be taken unawares by an apparent failure of the sleep-wake functionality of their Macs.
If you would like to learn more about what it does, here is the manual page of this tool. Just need to make sure the command line utility is present. It’s worth noting that the above command ether-wake should also work from any Linux server if fired remotely via SSH or Telnet. If you have a Windows Server that’s always on, check out this utility to remotely trigger WOL magic packet. Now you have a ready-to-go server that can wake up a home network machine remotely. Once you have configured that, you can always run this particular task on demand. You can go to the schedule tab and update this to “Run the following date” and “Do not repeat”. You probably don’t want to wake up a computer always at a given moment of the day. When finished configuring the task, by default it will be a scheduled recurring running task. If your Synology has more than one Ethernet port, make sure eth0 has a connection to the local network. Under the Run command section, enter the following command with your MAC address of the target device that you wish to WOL. Select the user who will have the rights to execute some command line utilities. Log in to your Synology via Public IP with IP forwarding or via Synology’s QuickConnect handle. Here you should get a Normal status result back and if configured correctly your local machine would wake up by now! Configure Synology DSM Control Panel Once that’s done, you can go back to the Task Schedule page view previous results, Action > View Result Under the Task Settings tab, in User-defined script, instead of having previous ether-wake command replace them with synonet –wake eth0 tmp/esynoscheduler.script.28484: line 2: etherwake: command not foundįirst, go to Control Panel > Task Scheduler > Edit or Create a new task, but make sure the user is root. tmp/esynoscheduler.script.28484: line 1: ether-wake: command not found They have removed ether-wake command (see sample error below), but fortunately, there are still ways to send WOL or magic packet to wake up local network machines. How To Enable Synology DSM 6.0+ to send WOL/Magic PacketĮver since Synology released DSM 6.0, even in 6.0 beta, the previous method for sending WOL packets no longer works. : Added a missing Ethernet port eth0 to the synoet call example. : If you have DSM 6.0 or later, please follow the below steps to enable remote WOL/send a magic packet to your local network machines. The setup doesn’t require additional source nor installs packages. If you have a Synology running DSM (Disk Station Manager) you can follow the steps below to trigger WOL to any local network devices that support it. I happen to have a Synology NAS server which could be an ideal machine to serve as a proxy from your home network to the outside world. To overcome the local network issue, it’s probably a good idea to have a server always on and accessible from the outside world. While the ability to remotely turn on and off the machine is cool, it’s important to note that this only works in a local network area. If this is something you are interested, we have a full tutorial showing you how to set up WOL on Windows on your local network. WOL, allowing you remotely to Power On a local network computer. Here on NOW, We’ve covered many tools around WOL, Wake On Lan.