Server Version#: 1.25.0.5282
Player Version#: Various
I’ve been running Plex for years now and I’ve always had it set up so my PC/Server sleeps after 1 hour of inactivity. During playback Plex keeps the PC awake as it should, even if the movie is 3 hours long or I binge TV shows for even longer.
Recently after a few Plex server updates, if I play a TV show episode that lasts more than 1 hour, as soon as it’s finished the PC instantly goes to sleep. This makes the “Episode will auto play in 15 seconds” feature useless.
The way it used to work is Plex would keep the PC awake as long as the Plex client was open on any device (Android/Tizen/Chrome/AppleTV) I’ve tried them all and the exact same thing happens.
I don’t need the PC on all day so that’s not an option for me as I can go days at a time without needing Plex.
Tried everything I can think of on my end so I assume something in the recent updates made Plex much more aggressive at dumping current session/users at end of playback.
Change the behavior to to sleep after 2 hours? Or if everything you do is local, maybe invest in a small super low power NAS. I think the chip in my NAS is rated to consume 10 watts at load. Typical consumption for the whole machine is rated at 25 watts by Qnap. That would be with it under load. At idle they pull about 10 watts. Meaning that it probably take that thing a week of being on to consume the same power your PC uses in a couple hours of being on.
In general it is a bad idea to allow any server to “sleep.” It saves very little money, in fact the wear caused by the spin up/down of drives going into and out of sleep may cost quite a bit more than the electricity it saves.
It is almost always better just to let servers run.
You can allow the monitor to sleep as the monitor is not needed for the process of serving. In fact my server is connected to no monitor at all and I use TightVNC to maintain the server itself.
Also servers should not have any regular duties except serving and nothing not related to the server’s job of serving.
I get that I just can’t afford a Synology right now, and the server is my gaming PC.
I will be getting a Synology in the future for sure.
But I’m just wondering why this is suddenly an issue? Wondering if it’s an oversight from one of the devs or not
I think it is way more likely that it is a Windows issue then a Plex issue. Honestly though like Elijah said you are likely better off letting the PC run all the time and just letting the screen turn off when you are not using it. The difference between idle and sleep power states is very small and the wear and tear on your components from sleeping and spinning up over and over again is likely to cost you more in the long run when you start having to replace them.
Windows 11 at the moment but it also did it on Windows 10, been happening for a few months now and I formatted and installed Windows 11 about a week ago hoping it would fix.
OP I have this exact same problem on windows 11 as well. Seems to be a bug with Plex or how it works with Windows Sleep now. Used to work perfectly and now instant sleep once an episode or movie ends that was longer than the windows sleep timer.
“Don’t use sleep” and “extend your sleep timeout” aren’t addressing the bug itself,
