Trigger PMS in cloud-hosted docker by launching client

Hi folks!

Is it possible to trigger the load of a custom URL when logging in the app before connecting to a PMS?

I recently set up a PMS in docker in AWS with storage in S3. Works great! I want to remove the need for having my home server always on, and increase reliability by not depending on my ISP and network equipment at home to always work when away.

What would be even nicer is to trigger the container launch by launching the app on my TV, Ipad or PC. This way, having a PMS container in AWS fargate or similar would be extremely cheap as it would only run when Plex is actually used. A launch can be triggered by accessing a web-address (hitting an AWS Lambda function) but I’d need some connection from plex.tv to that web-address.

Shutdown would need to be automated too through detecting no activity for some time. Perhaps configurable already today in the container?

The container probably also should be triggered by adding new media but that’s a separate problem :grinning: Easily solved by a schedule or triggers in S3, but triggers depends on support in the cloud service used for storage.

So, would it be possible to add a custom URL that is accessed when a plex client is launched?

Best regards,
Olof

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