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Originally Posted by RobertMe View Post
I'm thinking of buying some Mifare Ultralight NFC stickers, but I'm wondering how well these play with this app. When I scan a tag written by this app, does it automatically send a WOL packet to the device? I'm using OpenELEC so XBMC already does autostart when the PC starts. I've also got a Pulse-Eight HDMI-CEC adapter to have some interaction between (the remote of) the TV and the PC running XBMC. By using this small device the TV gets automatically switched on from standby when XBMC starts.

If I could just scan a NFC tag to start my HTPC and my TV that would be just awesome. So is this possible?
Well, xbmcremote does support this, however Myfare ultralight chips provide only 48Bytes of storage which is not enough to store all the needed informations. In this case it skips the mac address used for wakeonlan.

So the bottomline is: Yes, xbmcremote can do it, but if you want wakeonlan, you have to use a larger chip. A NFC Tag Type 1, which has 96 bytes should be enough.
 

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