Hardware

Why did I need this I started this project to be able to work around an issue I was having with my desktop PC, specifically I thought that it had something to do with the network port on the motherboard: as it turned out, I only had a faulty Ethernet cable! Replacing the cable solved the random disconnects and reconnects that I was experiencing. That being said, I built the following system to be able to forcefully shut down and monitor the power state of that desktop PC, since I use it as a server and it is not in a comfortable position to reach for pressing the power button nor checking its status LED; I also found out that not all recent motherboards have Wake on LAN1 capabilities, so this might come in handy for another project. ...

All the hardware involved into this project: in the middle, the NanoPi NEO H3 I heard about software X that provides remote desktop functionality… While there are a lot of software programs that can enable remote desktop access functionality, this also means that you must install that piece of software on the machine you are willing to access while physically away from it. Also, this means that an operating system must be running on that machine, to also run that remote desktop software we’re supposing to want. ...