I’ve had a laptop that I’ve never been able to get WoL (Wireless or otherwise) to work, no matter what I tried. Recently realized that the Bluetooth keyboard I used was able to wake it with a key press though.
I searched and found an ESP Home project that will make an ESP32 emulate a Bluetooth keyboard - https://github.com/dmamontov/esphome-blekeyboard
Now for $6 of hardware, I can wake my Laptop up remotely via HA, whenever needed. Definitely recommended!
I must be too old school because my first thought when i read this was “with an old solenoid lying around and a few lines of code, an AtTiny could strike a key on the bluetooth keyboard, waking the laptop!
You could ditch the solenoid and use a ATMega32u4 that can act as a HID device to send a keypress signal.
I’m mildly surprised OP’s laptop keeps the bluetooth radio powered up while asleep, but I would be a lot more surprised to find one that doesn’t work with USB HID.
I definitely thought about trying something physical like that too, but mostly as a fallback plan!
Have you tried
Simpler: use a smart wallplug, configure your bios to always start after powerloss.
I actually tried something like this, the laptop BIOS didn’t have any settings to tweak for A/C power changes. However, it does wake from sleep after plugging in. The issue is, it immediately goes back to sleep (within seconds). Tried quite a few things to try to stop that behavior (e.g. running Power Toys Awake) but had no luck.
So that’s when I switched to ESP Keyboard.
Ah yes, because it’s a laptop, I know lots of desktop have the option tho.
Why did you need final fantasy’s Warrior of Light to wake up your laptop?
That is for waking from sleep, or from shutdown?
