Brickfrog

Wake on LAN is a LAN feature, not WAN, so you’d need to issue that over the local LAN there at the house. You’re going to have a hard time trying to get that working over the WAN (if that’s even possible).

The other comments mentioning a scheduled boot would be a much easier/simple solution if it works for you.

But I’ll throw this in, the super basic least tech solution to this is to open a port forward to the house’s network router. Yes, I know you don’t want to do that, but it’s probably the only network device at that house that’s actually on 24/7 right? And by all means lock it down however you like. My simple method is to open the router login to a non-standard port number, with a IP whitelist, add my own home IP address to that IP whitelist, and bam you now have access to that remote home’s router for just your IP address. Log in remotely, issue a wake on LAN via the router’s own web ui, done.

It’s perfectly reasonable to make this a bit more secure if you wanted but it gets slightly more complicated - open a non-standard port for SSH access to the remote router’s SSH port that only allows SSH login with key. Generate a SSH key and share that key with yourself, then you can log in remotely to that remote house via non-standard SSH port using the SSH key (no user/passwords). From there you’d have to see if you can issue Wake on LAN on the SSH command line, or set up a SSH tunnel from that remote LAN to yours so you can proxy into the router login page and do your Wake on LAN from there. … yes I realize this got complicated :/ But you’ve got a few things to explore given your patience for tinkering with this stuff :)

Of course much of this relies on that house’s router having any of these features to enable and configure. The main takeaway here is that Wake on LAN requires something on 24/7 at that remote LAN for you to enable remote access into and issue a Wake on LAN command within that LAN. How to actually accomplish that is the tricky bit.

That’s fair, I don’t use Tailscale either but was thinking that would affect the WAN side of things rather than the LAN that the phone and Chromecast are on. Looking into it a bit more it sort of seems like OP would need to configure Subnet routing on their Tailscale configuration to enable their Tailscale to forward traffic to devices on the local LAN?

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

That was just from some quick searching around but since I don’t use Tailscale I can’t say for sure if that’s a solution (or even if Tailscale is the culprit here).

And yes for sure if OP doesn’t specifically need/want Tailscale then maybe a different remote solution would be something to try like reverse proxy or whatever they decide on.

Yes pretty much, there isn’t really anything extra to configure for casting. I think to get it working

• Both the Google Chromecast and your phone must be connected to the same home network (in other words the same home wifi)
• The TV itself should be on and set to HDMI-1 or whatever port the Chromecast is plugged into
• The Chromecast itself should already be set up, connected to the network, etc. (I’ve never needed to do this but I suspect there’s a few basic steps to get it set up and connected to wifi, etc.)

Do you know if the Chromecast there was accepting other casts from other apps / phones? I wonder if there’s just something configured oddly at that network, or their Chromecast just wasn’t working correctly like maybe it was offline. My Pixel 7 also has a feature to cast the phone screen itself so if your phone can do that it’s something you can test next time you’re able to. (that might just be for Google Pixel phones, other phones might not do screen casting in that way).

I don’t own a Chromecast myself so can’t really think of other things to try, they usually just work if they’re on and online.

Hi. What’s the best way to access my content from a remote location? I’ve got tailscale set up

Are you already able to access your JF content remotely? Wasn’t sure what you meant by saying that you set up tailscale but still asking about accessing content remotely.

If your JF app can already stream your content remotely on your phone, say when you’re out traveling outside your own home, then you already have the ability to cast. Just be sure to have your phone connect to the same network connection that the Google Chromecast is connected to (e.g. that home’s wifi network) then tap the cast icon at the top of the JF app. The Google Chromecast will appear there and you can tap it to start casting whatever you are playing on the JF app to the TV the Chromecast is connected to.

That’s how I do it when traveling to other locations that have a Google Chromecast set up on their TV.