Server Version#:1.22.3.4523-6000
Player Version#: Various. Mainly Android TV
Every once in a while I will find my Plex server stopped. I will go into the packages and click start and I’ll be good for a while again. It doesn’t happen often so I’m good with restarting it when I need to. However, the wife and I will be going on vacation soon while my wife’s parents are hanging out with my boys. It would be nice to have something set up to monitor the Plex process and start it if needed so that I don’t have to try to do it from a remote location, and or give them access to my server. Even though I don’t find it stopped often, vacation time is probably most likely when it would occur.
I am hoping that a Plex employee might have some power tools that they are working on to do such a thing.
I always keep my server and software updated. I actually just updated to the latest version before I posted earlier. I understand you guys are updating things to keep things stable, but I am looking for a way for my Synology server to monitor and restart Plex automatically whenever it does run into something to cause it to crash/stop. As of right now, it needs my manual intervention to get it going again. A built in system monitor to recover from stuff like this would be a nice refinement of your product.
Weird. Under Settings->General the version shows “1.22.3.4523” and is up to date and the check for updates button shows that this version is the latest, but the link on Synology’s download page that trumpy81 linked shows “1.23.0.4497-a1b1f3c10” as the current version. I wonder the settings page won’t find the newer version?
I was hoping that posting the idea here would make it happen. I’m not sure what it would take on Plex’s part, but it would be nice. I’ll have to look for a suggestion link if you guys don’t forward stuff like this on.
This won’t help with stop/start, but will let you know when Plex stops.
Tautulli can notify you when the Plex server is offline and back online. I run Tautulli in Docker on my DS918+, where I also run Plex Media Server. When the server is offline I receive a notification on my Android phone via the Tautulli app. Tautulli has many other notifications and nice features. Worth a look.
Uptime Robot will monitor your remote access port and let you know when the Plex server is unavailable. The free version checks the port every 5 minutes and sends you an e-mail when the server status changes.
After looking at everything I don’t plan on taking any actions to restart or add 3rd party monitoring. My wife and kids are really efficient at monitoring, I just don’t trust them for the restarting part yet.
I still think it would be great for Plex to look into doing it instead. I’m sure it would touch more users than some of the other projects that Plex is adding man hours to do (arcade, webhooks, watch together, ect…)
I have added a Feature Request for everyone who finds this post and feels the same to vote for.
