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Uh-oh, I received a report earlier today saying that Wake On LAN Ex isn't waking up Buffalo TeraStations.

Considering that WoLEX is waking up other devices fine, I'm inclined to believe there could be a configuration problem with said TeraStations, or even the network to some degree.

I've asked if the app is able to wake-up other devices on the network and will decide what to do depending on the answer. If not - or n/a - then I'm not sure what the plan of action is, in all honesty. I could try adding another way of implementing the WoL functionality, but I'm still confused why the existing method would only wake some devices?

All → Software → Wake On LAN Ex

Just like the dopey FileSieve problem, I may have made a total dumb-dumb with Wake On LAN Ex.

That problem where a user reported that WoLEX couldn't wake up a Buffalo TerraStation? It's because they use port 2304 for waking-up, and WoLEX wasn't actually taking any notice if the user entered a port that wasn't the default port 9.

Oh dear.

Thanks to A. Jones for investigating the issue.

New version released.

All → Software → Wake On LAN Ex

Another day, another release.

There was only really supposed to be one change to this new release:

Performance improvements to the loading and saving of settings.

This is the result of the FileSieve and Newtonsoft JSON.Net findings. I reworked my (JSON/XML) serialisation code and took out the options that allowed you to specify Image and SecureString type conversion, and now instead require that all properties of those types have a TypeConverter attribute specified.

<JsonConverter(GetType(SecureStringConverter))>
Public Property Password As SecureString
    ...
End Property

As well as simplifying the code - we're only talking about a reduction of 4 lines here - it removes the enormous performance drain of JSON.Net's TypeConverter CanConvert property. It does mean you can't just pass the relevant converter option, but with the huge gains - who cares, really?

Sorry, I lost the main point of this point: there are now quite a few changes in this new WoLEX release; once I started, I couldn't stop.