Samsung ME series and WOL

ajish.raju
ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
in AMX General Discussion
I am controlling a Samsung ME55C via TCP and since Samsung unit shuts down the LAN port when its powered off, there is no option to turn it on. I know wake up on lan works for other series of Samsung but i am not able to do the same with this series. I have tried the following ports 40000, 7001(magicinfolite server port) and 6000( after scanning the ports).

Has anyone got this unit to turn on ?
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  • JasonS
    JasonS If I had known it was going to be that kind of party...
    Have you turned off all the "Green" features on the TV? They are generally spread across multiple menus. I have not controlled the ME55C with WOL. I have controlled the DE40C with WOL, but it required updating firmware on the TV.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    Turned off all the green options, auto power off, pc module options are set to always on. But all to no avail.
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  • JasonS
    JasonS If I had known it was going to be that kind of party...
    When you list the ports that you have tried, are those the ports you are sending the WOL packet to? On the DE40C's I use port 9 for WOL and port 1515 for control.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    I have now tried port 9 also but to no avail. Here is the WOL command i am sending \xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD\xFE\xF0!\x05\x0C\xBD
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  • JasonS
    JasonS If I had known it was going to be that kind of party...
    Your WOL packet looks correct. This is the Function I use to generate my WOL "Magic" packet. 
    DEFINE_FUNCTION INTEGER Generate_Magic_Packet(CHAR sMAC[], CHAR sMagicPacket[])
{
    STACK_VAR INTEGER Count
    
    IF (LENGTH_STRING(sMAC) == 6 AND MAX_LENGTH_STRING(sMagicPacket) >= 102)
    {
	sMagicPacket = "$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF"
	FOR (Count = 1; Count <= 16; Count++)
	{
	    sMagicPacket = "sMagicPacket, sMAC"
	}
	RETURN TRUE
    }
    RETURN FALSE
}
    Also make sure you are using IP_UDP in your IP_CLIENT_OPEN for WOL, and IP_TCP for your IP_CLIENT_OPEN for the control connection.
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  • Stephen Bolton
    Stephen Bolton Junior Member
    What server address are you populating in your ip_client_open code when opening up UDP dialog?

    Perhaps post this code snippet for us to look at...
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    Thanks for all the responses. I am connecting to the subnet mask 255.255.255.255.
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  • Stephen Bolton
    Stephen Bolton Junior Member
    ajish.raju wrote: »
    Thanks for all the responses. I am connecting to the subnet mask 255.255.255.255.
    No probs, so is it working now?
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    Not yet. I am trying to contact Samsung Tech support to resolve it.
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  • Stephen Bolton
    Stephen Bolton Junior Member
    We have quite a few ME40c, 55c and 75c's controlled under IP. Try using port 1515 - didn't see that in the list above.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    I am using that port for the control functions and it works perfectly. Whenever i switch the unit off via remote or third party control, i am not able to ping the unit nor control it. If i turn on the unit, the lan port is alive for control again.
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  • Stephen Bolton
    Stephen Bolton Junior Member
    Running out if ideas for you...but,

    Apart from screen firmware, you may also want to ensure the client network policies/routers allow WoL.

    WoL can sometimes be a funny old fish.
    Whenever i switch the unit off via remote or third party control, i am not able to ping the unit nor control it.
    That's pretty normal - it's part of a very low network layer.

    Anyhow, hope it helps.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    Samsung Tech guy said he will send some info soon. Crossing my fingers here.
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  • JasonS
    JasonS If I had known it was going to be that kind of party...
    I would not use 255.255.255.255 as the broadcast IP, as it is not technically valid. I would try using the broadcast IP for your subnet instead. For example if your IP address is 192.168.1.5 and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the broadcast IP for your subnet would be 192.168.1.255.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    No luck after changing the broadcast IP :(
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  • JasonS
    JasonS If I had known it was going to be that kind of party...
    If you post your code we can take a look at it.
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante
    If your subnet mask is 255.255.255.192 ,tv ip address is 10.215.157.11 and gateway is 10.215.157.1, what will be the broadcast ip. I tried a software called fusion wol , google it and i was able to wol the unit. I am trying to figure what port and broadcast ip this software might be using

    If all else fails, i will post the code.
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  • mdonaldson
    mdonaldson Junior Member
    Try 10.215.157.63 as the broadcast ip
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  • ericmedley
    ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
    You may have to go the old route of IR to power it on and IP for the rest. There are still some Sony receivers out there that do not respond to power on via IP or even rs232. Once they are powered up they work fine. I've had a few automobiles like that before.
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  • Neil Carroll
    Neil Carroll Junior Member
    Here is what I'm using, tested as working, as you can see port is 7676;

    cSamsung_MAC1 = "$F4,$7B,$5E,$61,$0F,$18"

    IP_CLIENT_OPEN (dvSamsung1_UDP.PORT,'255.255.255.255',7676,2)
    Wait 5
    {
    SEND_STRING dvSamsung1_UDP,"$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1,
    cSamsung_MAC1"
    nDisplay_Standby[5] = 1
    WAIT 200
    {
    IP_CLIENT_CLOSE(dvSamsung1_UDP.PORT)
    Wait 200
    {
    IP_CLIENT_OPEN(dvDisplay5.PORT,'10.242.142.123',1515,1)
    nDisplay_Connect[5] = 1
    }
    }
    }
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  • ajish.raju
    ajish.raju chief evangelist of favante


    Please find the working code, used port 2304,7406,9,7 and broadcast ip of 255.255.255.255.
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