I know most people will say “leave your PC on 24/7”, “a server shouldn’t be put to sleep”, etc. However, with the rising cost of energy, and the fact my PC idles at 100W, I really need to enable a 15-minute sleep timer on my Windows PC. I can’t afford dedicated low-energy hardware.
When I am away from home, I can send a wake-on-lan magic packet via cellular data on my android phone. This wakes my Windows PleX server up at home and I can begin streaming. However, after 15 minutes of remote access, my Windows PleX server will go back to sleep.
Is there any way I can prevent my system going to sleep whilst I am streaming/remote accessing my PleX server?
Settings - Server - General - ‘Support Away Mode when preventing system sleep’ - “Support Away Mode when preventing system sleep”
is exactly for this purpose and needs to be activated.
If it is already activated and your PC is going to sleep nonetheless, then some thing is causing it to ignore the above directive.
Maybe you have some 3rd-party software installed which forces it to sleep?
With newer hardware and careful selection of components, you can lower that to 40 W for sure.
Thank you for your reply. I do have “Support Away Mode when preventing system sleep” activated.
When I was setting up WOWLAN and magic packets, and preventing my computer being woken up every hour by my router’s GTK key rotation intervals, perhaps I changed something I shouldn’t have.
If I go to command prompt and type “powercfg -requests” I get the following:
DISPLAY:
None.
SYSTEM:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Server.exe
AWAYMODE:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Server.exe
