WOL Node red not working(solved)

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I have a node red flow to wake up my iMac but can't get it working.
I hope someone can point me in the right direction ?
I have looked at post:


to try understand a little more , have entered mac address and broadcast ip, but no luck..

I am quite new to node red and hope therefore you forgive my lame explanations:)
Node red is running on my iMac - wake up for network access is turned on - and am trying to send a http GET from fibaro hc2 scene , also on same machine/network.

I have enabled debug on node red (node-red -v) and can see that the WOL magic packets are being received but are not waking up my iMac .
Is it right to assume that node red must be running on another machine in order for wol to work ??

Please if anyone has been here before.
Thanking in advance

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If the mac goes to sleep, node-red will be sleeping. WOL means some other device sends a WOL to the mac making it wake up.

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Or the (awake) MAC sending the packet to another (sleeping) machine

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Thanking for both replies , i understand the Logic in this , but how do you keep a flow running on a PC ? I mean, understanding that my Mac will og to Sleep after a set time , where do i run the wol for node red . Seems that the solution is to run node red on a separate machine / server .
I really appreciate your Feedback and thank you for your time