A guide to remotely waking & sleeping your Plex Windows 10 Server via Remote Access & WOL

I have now updated the guide again (on 4-4-19):-

  • Please see Parts C) for the updated section about manually forwarding a port in the Windows 10 firewall settings,
  • And Part E) for the updates on configuring and enabling your ethernet adapter.

And @leandronb , thanks for your patience, I have now listed the steps to take regarding your network adapter properties in Part E).

Also, I am looking to add sections soon about:

  • How to properly configure USB selective suspend for individual HDDs to sleep when not in use, say after 20 minutes, even when the PC/Server is still awake,
  • How to be able to view in CMD (Command prompt) when the PC/Server has anything stopping it from sleeping properly,
  • How to rectify the waking issue of when the PC wakes out of sleep and has the error in CMD of “[DRIVER] legacy kernel caller power manager”

I am also now aware of the DLNA server not allowing Windows 10 to sleep properly when it is enabled, and are currently awaiting feedback on how to resolve this. Please see this thread and post to see if you can solve my request of knowing what the full script listing of the DLNA config code is, as I too are unsure: