Arduino as a WoL receiver

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Hi, so my PC's Wake on LAN is somewhat unreliable (it doesn't work after an AC power loss, and that's set by my MOBO) and since I'm often away I need to know it will work when I need it to. I've considered using a full KVM but it would be quite overkill as I use software to access the PC remotely anyway (for latency and quality) so only the power management part would be used.

I already have a way to send WoL packets to any device on my LAN reliably, so I was thinking about using an arduino with an ethernet shield to act as a WoL target and have it "press" the power button of my pc.

The issue is that I'm not really sure which board would be best, I think a micro or nano would be sufficient (and small !) but I'm a bit confused regarding the differences between the two and the compatibility of shields.

Maybe there are better ways to do it, like something simpler or more efficient than a full microcontroller that is on 24/7 only to be active for a few seconds every day/week ?

Any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance !

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Have you looked at https://docs.arduino.cc/libraries/wakeonlan/ ?

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The Arduino Nano generally works well with smaller Ethernet modules like the ENC28J60-based modules or the W5500-based modules.

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Thanks for the link, unfortunately this library will not do it as it's only made to send WoL packets and only seems to work over WiFi, whereas I want to receive those packets via ethernet.
Besides, I think the programming part should be fine, I'm mainly looking for help regarding the hardware.

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