Everything I learned building SayBoot — the Alexa skill to boot your PC with your voice. No marketing, no fluff.
How to pick the right solution to wake and shut down your PC with Alexa. Solution categories, features, limits, and selection criteria.
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Two weeks ago I asked the people who use SayBoot what really matters to them. Many answers came in, some I have read more than once. This is what I learned, and what came out of it.
How to shut down (or wake) a Windows PC with Alexa after a delay, with nothing to configure. The exact phrase, how to cancel the timer, and what happens behind the scenes.
SayBoot launched in April. Thousands of people in almost ninety countries turn on their PC by voice, never having paid a cent. How it went, and what it costs.
The SayBoot webapp has a brand-new design. A radar-style power button on the dashboard, terminal-style logs, a card for every PC with quick search, and reorganized settings. Everything you used before works exactly as it did.
The new SayBoot Agent ships a built-in notification center, the Wake not working diagnostic tool, automatic language sync and self-service account deletion. Available on Microsoft Store.
How to wake your home PC with Alexa from anywhere, without router port-forwarding. The SayBoot cloud relay solves remote Wake-on-LAN in 2 minutes.
The 7 most common problems when Alexa can't wake your PC via Wake-on-LAN and how to solve them step by step with SayBoot.
How to shut down a Windows PC with an Alexa voice command using SayBoot. Configurable shutdown, restart, sleep, and hibernate in a single skill.
Enable Wake on LAN on Windows 11: BIOS, network card, Fast Startup. With PowerShell commands, how to check it is on, and what works over Wi-Fi.
Set up the free SayBoot Alexa skill and wake your PC by voice in 5 minutes. Wake-on-LAN on Windows 11/10, no port forwarding — shutdown included.
