# Sleep timer

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/sleep-timer/814692>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** player-windows, plex-htpc\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sleep-timer/814692 "2022-10-13T19:26:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monsters\_Grin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/monsters_grin/32/20166_2.png) [@Monsters\_Grin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Monsters_Grin)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sleep-timer/814692/1 "2022-10-13T19:26:19Z")

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Plex players on Windows are sorely lacking a “sleep” timer.

It would be really useful to be able to set a timer, and the action that the player should do after the timer runs out. The options could be - Turn off the monitor, Sleep, Shutdown. The same could apply after the movie, the episode, or a playlist finishes.

If MPC-HC can turn off the monitor after the playback finishes, Plex players should be able to do that too. I don’t know about other platforms, but on Windows it’s going to be really simple to achieve. Then it’s just a matter of integrating that into the playback menu.

Let us set the number of minutes (and/or simply select “after playback finishes”), and then select the action. “Run a program” as one of the actions would be a nice addition. It would give us a lot of possibilities.

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