BootBoi

Ever wanted to turn on your remote machine (laptop, Raspberry, NAS), but didn't want to leave the couch? Well I for sure understand this problem to the heart. But fear no more, as BootBoi is here to save you from the gruesome task of standing up and pushing a button.

BootBoi features remote power on / power off / reboot for as many remote machines as you can imagine with the combined power of ssh and Wake On Lan.

Preparing your Remote Machine

Before you can use BootBoi with your remote machines, you have to prepare them for remote rebooting and powering them on/off.

Power On

To power a remote device on, BootBoi uses Wake On Lan.
This needs to be enabled in the BIOS of the machine you want to power on, read more here.

Power Off / Reboot

BootBoi uses SSH to execute whoami, poweroff and reboot on the remote machine.
So make sure that
1. Those binaries are available and in $PATH
2. The SSH user has sudo access to whoami, poweroff and reboot
  - Either by allowing the user sudo access only to those binaries via the sudoers file (recommended)
    - E.g. echo "my_ssh_user ALL=(ALL) /sbin/reboot,/sbin/poweroff,/usr/bin/whoami" >> /etc/local/sudoers
  - Or by using root as SSH user in BootBoi

Release

Google Play

Setup gradle and keystore for release: Follow https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android
cd android and ./gradlew bundleRelease
Change BOOTBOI_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD and BOOTBOI_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD in android/gradle.properties accordingly
To test the release, run npx react-native run-android --variant=release, it will create a release apk to android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk

Development

Remote Communication Module

BootBoi uses this Remote Communication Module to use Java APIs for rebooting and powering on/off.

Environment

yarn start to start the development server
- reload with r
yarn android to build the android app (dev server needs to be running), only needed when dependencies in package.json or native source changes
If you get Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ReflectionCache: Need to lower JDK version (tested with JDK 11)

BootBoi/android-app