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Wake a sleeping Mac

Wake paired Macs from sleep before you connect. Manual, automatic, and what cannot be woken.

Continuo can send a Wake-on-LAN signal to a sleeping paired Mac so it is ready before you cross an edge or connect from the menu bar. Wake-on-LAN requires Pro; see Free vs Pro.

Wake is best effort. It cannot wake a Mac that is fully shut down.

Enable Wake-on-LAN

Settings → Advanced → Wake paired Macs from sleep (off by default).

On the target Mac, enable Wake for network access in System Settings → Battery / Energy. Ethernet is the most reliable path; Wi-Fi requires hardware or router support for sleep proxy.

Wake manually

In the menu bar panel, tap the bolt icon on an offline paired peer. You can also wake from Settings → Advanced, where each peer shows wake status and a Wake Now row.

Wake Now sends a network signal while the peer is offline or possibly asleep.

Each attempt times out after about 30 seconds. Continuo shows Didn’t wake in time rather than pretending the Mac woke. After a failed attempt, the same peer has a short cooldown before the next try.

Wake automatically

With Wake them automatically enabled (default when WoL is on), Continuo may send wake signals when this Mac wakes from sleep and a peer is still asleep, when a peer drops off while you are working, and when you dwell at an edge toward a sleeping peer. In the edge case, Continuo sends wake and keeps the cursor local; push again after the peer reconnects.

Edge dwell preflight

If you push toward a sleeping Mac, the cursor stays on this Mac while wake runs in the background. Once the peer is online, cross the edge again.

Limits

Wake-on-LAN only reaches sleeping Macs. A machine that is fully powered off must be started locally. If Wake for network access is off, wake is unlikely to succeed. Stored wake endpoints older than 14 days may need reconfirmation. Unpairing removes stored wake endpoints for that peer, even if it is offline.