I’ve had Plex for quite a while but wasn’t able to get to Plex remotely. I thought it was my port settings but just as of today I see that it wasn’t. Before I left for work, I decided to change the sleep setting of the hard drive to “never” turn off. After doing that, and while on the train and here…

Port forwarding works but won't wake Windows 10 machine

pl_5309 May 3, 2019, 5:37pm 2

In general, Plex is a server and is not sleep aware.

YMMV:

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