Much of the time my pc is on, and will be on. However for those occasions I let it sleep, how will plex handle its maintenance?
I have it set at the default of 3am to 6am. Will it simply begin maintenance upon the waking of my pc?
No, if the PC is off, Plex will be off too. Set the Plex maintenance time window to a time when your PC is running.
mmm. feature request to have something like “if xxx scheduled tasks are missed, increase priority” or some such!
but okay. sleep off the table, or change maintenance hours for now 
thank you
As attractive as letting a computer sleep seems to be it is generally something that computers acting as servers should not do.
In the general case servers should never sleep.
I have never seen any good data that shows that allowing a server to sleep has any positive impact on the life of the computer and I have seen many recommendations to not allow servers to sleep. There is also some data that show that power cycles actually increase the probability of failure.
I never allow my server to sleep and I never allow any drives to spin down and I have a very low failure rate. I have had no computer failures and only two drive failures in the last ten years and one of those drive failures was when I dropped on when changing my hardware layout. (I have 35 hard drives in continuous operation on two servers that are always on.)
There is some tiny power saving to be had from sleep but the savings are less, I believe, than the possible loss due to excessive power on/off cycles.
It is just best in my opinion to keep servers on all the time.
It is a good idea however to allow the monitor(s) to sleep. The monitors play no part in server input/output and, in many cases, monitors, even modern ones, use power and generate heat.
Having said that I do think your idea about how to handle missed tasks is a good one.
Oh i get that, and if it was an actual server, much less serving anyone but my home - i’d be entirely on board with what your saying. I was actually going to set up a nas this year, but the cost due to the size i’d need, and the time investment it would take to get it off the ground, just wasnt a smart choice relative to what it would offer me.
I use my main workstation as the server and so nobody needs it at night, as such i like to let it breathe. Give my office a chance to cool down. the hardware a chance to rest. save some energy etc.
windows maintenance will start at next idle if your schedule is missed. Macrium will begin its scheduled backup at next login (even prompt you if you want) if a schedule is missed.
Would be a good feature to have imo.
You could always set a scheduled windows (bios?) task to wake up 30 minutes before maintenance time - then shut down 30 minutes after that.
Can we still do that with Winders these days?
Used to work on Winders 7…lol
Maybe this is a solution.
Yea, i imagine wake timers would work. The big issue there is you have to actually have wake timers enabled in power options.
This unfortunately allows crazy windows services to wake your pc when they feel like it. Some are able to be disabled, others not without janky/hacky workarounds like running task scheduler with system permissions and/or mucking around in the registry.
Im old now, i try to keep it simple Solid suggestion though if it werent for microsoft being microsoft.
Heck, as we speak im trying to figure out what keeps waking up my external drives. procmon isnt being very helpful. I’m certain its some under the hood m$ garbo.
Nonsense.
I used to wake a Windows 7 PC to record prime time in the bios - then shut it down with a scheduled task at 11pm. I never had any ‘interlopers’ operating my PC.
If ya wanna talk Crazy Services - let’s get Plex involved with waking and sleeping our servers.
Sound like a good idea?
Beuller?
Anyone?
well, for starters. When has “it isn’t happening to me so it must be you” been a valid argument in the pc realm? lol
but, for the sake of being thorough.
or just search for update orchestrator insertwakingphrasinghere.
that guy is the largest offender. Then if you dont disable everything but magic packet only in your nic (things like pattern match etc) you can get hammered that way too.
Again, in almost any other cirumstance im all for that sorta thing. Boy would it be nice to wake for maintenance if it worked properly and consistently under all circumstances. Windows wont even sleep hard drives properly, asking it not to interfere there seems tantamount to the same thing and in my case it was.
In my particular use-case, i have real little kids, and i myself am a light sleeper. My pc isnt the most quiet guy around so apart from seeding some torrents, or doing some large data migrations (apart from the heat/energy/potentially longevity reasons already discussed) i definitely like to put her down and keep her down.
to each their own
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