Activating Desk Clock in Smart Connect - Sony Xperia XZ Questions & Answers

Hi,
I would like to know if there was a way to use smart connect to get the desk clock that is a feature of the stock clock app to activate.
I know I can start the clock app using smart connect but I would like it to start in the desk clock feature....
Any ideas?
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EDIT
Solution found.
Using smart connect instead of starting an app choose start a shortcut and then choose clock. This automatically starts the desk clock.

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[How To] Turn on your PC using your Android Wear device

[EDIT: The method described in Post #3 is now my favourite, but it requires purchase of an app - the first method described here is free]
[EDIT 2: See Post 5 for Pujie Black method]
I just got my first Smartwatch (Moto 360 2nd Gen 42mm) and had been planning to try this as I thought it would be useful. I frequently turn on my PC (also my media server) using Wake-On-Lan from my phone when I'm about the house or after pulling into the driveway. On an Android phone this is pretty straightforward. Here's how I did it:
1) First of all make sure your PC is set up to allow Wake-On-Lan and it is on the same network as your phone. (Plenty of guides online showing how to do this, for example http://www.howtogeek.com/70374/how-to-geek-explains-what-is-wake-on-lan-and-how-do-i-enable-it/).
2) On your Android device, install 'Wake On LAN' by Reinhard Alischer from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ralischer.wakeonlan). This can be set up to wake multiple PCs, and you can add a widget or shortcut to your home screen for waking individual computers. All you need to know is your PC's MAC address. (Further instructions using a different app are available at http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/turn-on-your-pc-with-android-device-via-wifi-network-wowlan -- but I recommend the app mentioned above for this as it allows Widgets and Shortcuts, necessary for the Android Wear instructions below).
3) You can now test this to see if you can successfully wake/turn on your PC using your Android device.
Assuming you've got the above all set up correctly, you can now proceed to get it working on your Android Wear device:
1) On your Android device, install 'Wearable Widgets' by Udell Enterprises from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearablewidgets). The free version allows you to have one Widget on your Wear device, upgrade to the full version if you want to wake more than one PC or use other widgets.
2) On your Android device, open Wearable Widgets and tap the '+' button to add a Widget. Choose the 'Wake On LAN' widget for the PC you want to turn on.
3) Now on your Android Wear device, wake the screen and say 'OK Google, Start Widgets'. A Wake On LAN button will appear on your smartwatch screen - tap it and your PC should turn on!
Your Wear device does not need to be connected to WiFi, just paired using bluetooth, as it is your phone's WiFi connection that is being used to wake the PC.
This is one very useful aspect of a Wear device for me - no more having to pull out and switch on my phone to wake up the computer, just a simple command and tap of the wrist. Hope this proves helpful to someone else :highfive:
If anyone has a simpler method, I'm all ears
Very cool; thanks for the post.
Just to update on this and provide an alternate method...
First of all, I did purchase the paid version of 'Wearable Widgets', and it does indeed allow me to wake multiple PCs using separate widgets for each one from the Wake-On-Lan app. Another benefit of this is that I can now also add a widget from my 'FTP Server Pro' app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theolivetree.ftpserverpro&hl=en), which allows me to start the FTP Server on my phone from my watch - so that I can backup my phone over WiFi or transfer files over to it from my PC without having to touch the phone.
An alternate method for the Wake-On-Lan process is to follow the steps as above in post 1, but instead of using 'Wearable Widgets' use the 'Notification Toggle' app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.notificationToggle) - and for this method you must purchase the Shortcuts feature from within the app.
This app allows you to have toggles for WiFi, Bluetooth, Silent, Vibration etc on your watch, so that you can control all of these features on your phone without having to take it out. The paid-for Shortcuts feature allows you to add Shortcuts from any app on your phone to your watch. So, as the Wake-On-Lan app mentioned above allows both Widgets and Shortcuts for waking an individual PC, we can add a WOL Shortcut to our watch. You can also add multiple Shortcuts (from any app that supports them) to your watch (for example, I also added a Greenify shortcut).
1) Load Notification Toggle on your phone and navigate to the Premium Features section. Assuming you have purchased this, tap on where it says 'click here' to see shortcuts. Tap on the shortcut you want to add (in our case 'Wake on LAN Shortcut') and configure it.
2) The app will automatically add the Shortcut to your notification drawer on your phone, so if you don't want it there go to the third screen of the app and remove the tick beside the shortcut you don't want on your phone. (Note that you can turn off all other features of the app if you don't want to use the phone end of the Notification Toggles, simply remove the ticks from all toggles on screens 2 and 3).
3) Navigate to the Android Wear section (screen 4, first button).
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5) On your watch, go to the app drawer and start Notification Toggle. Swipe to and tap the appropriate Shortcut toggle to turn on the PC.
This is a bit more complicated to set up than the previous method, but has the benefit that you can have a WiFi toggle right next to the WOL Shortcut on your watch. So, for example, if you've been out and about with WiFi off on your phone, you can pull into the driveway, tap the WiFi toggle on your watch to activate WiFi on your phone, and then wake the PC.
If you have Pujie Black or another watch face with shortcut hot spots, you can set one of these up to launch Wearable Widgets or Notification Toggle to make things even quicker. I find that Notification Toggle loads slightly quicker on the watch than Wearable Widgets, but there's not much difference. This method (with Notification Toggles) is probably slightly better, but I still like having Wearable Widgets on my watch as there are some phone widgets which are handy to have on your wrist.
Turn on your PC using your Android Wear device
Turning on PC using Android wear device? I mean with the help of smart watch, isn't it amazing? Thanks a lot for the informative post mate.
The latest version of Pujie Black watch face now allows you to add shortcuts from the phone direct to your watch face. This means you can install the WOL tool from Post#1, and add an invisible 'hot spot' tap action shortcut for waking your PC direct to any Pujie watch face or to the Pujie tap drawer. No other apps needed
If anyone needs more detailed step-by-step, just ask.
Thank you very much for the post
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