Plex server - how to see offline multimedia from network AND wake up NAS if needed?

Plex Media Server
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Hi
I have to move some of my multimedia to another place in my network (NAS), however this one is not 24/7 on.

How I can force Plex to still show all my multimedia files in menu while some of them are offline when NAS is down?

Is it possible anyhow that, if someone from my family will want to play tv series that is on network share which is offline - it will send wake on lan packet to my NAS and play it once it back online? I know it will have huge delay but is it possible?
Then my NAS will go into sleep mode again after lets say 15min of no use of network shares.

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It should still show your media even if the storage drive is asleep.

it will send wake on lan packet to my NAS

That is the job of the OS that PMS installed on. As longs as that machine is awake, the drives sleeping shouldn’t affect anything.

For example, I have PMS on a Windows machine with storage media being a USB connected hard drive. The drive automatically goes to sleep when it’s not active, but my Windows machine is always on. When I want to watch something stored on that drive, Windows wakes up the drive. There is a delay in PMS and the Plex client waiting for the drive but it just works.

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I think you misunderstood me.

PMS is installed on machine A with own few drives and media.
Machine B is a separate NAS that will totally shut down with Wake On Lan option.
I need PMS to be able to:

  • still show all media that are placed on B (via network shares) even if they are offline
  • if someone tries to play this and B is down, send wake on lan packet to B and then start playing after it comes back alive.
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Sorry, not sure why I thought you were using a USB connected drive. The answer is still basically the same for a NAS drive.

1 - Yes, as long as machine A is on, PMS will show the media but it will appear as unavailable until machine B wakes up. You may need to try playing back a second time depending on how long it takes machine B to wake up.

2 - PMS does not send WOL commands. The OS of Machine A should be sending that when it sees that a file is needed. Check if machine A does this. Use it’s built in file explorer and try to access machine B. If it wakes, then this should work with Plex.