I’m totally new to Plex Pass and just set up the DVR with an HDHR device and it’s pretty cool. I’ve noticed that if the PC with Plex server running on it is asleep, it won’t wake up to record a scheduled recording. This is something that Windows Media Center handled pretty gracefully. I’m running Plex on a Windows 10 machine, and wondering it it’s possible to write a script that sets a wakeup task in task scheduler any time a recording is set in Plex? This would be SUPER cool… I’m happy to try to write a script that does so, but need a nudge in the right direction - i.e. is there an event that gets fired when a recording is set that we can hook into?
Well another approach is to set up a custom power policy in Windows where you keep network and disks alive and just kill the display since that is what sets the most juice typically when the PC is idle. And now that I think about it I believe that is one of the predefined policies that you can pick from. What kind of disk are you recording to? If a standard local physical disk you need to allow for spin up so you will want to trigger the wake up a minute or so before recording starts to make sure it is ready and doesn’t cause any i/o delays at the beginning of the recording.
Thanks for the reply - I’m storing to a local (external) disk, and would schedule waking the machine a few minutes prior to the recording to ensure that everything is good to go… I suppose I could have the screen turn off after some time, but my PC does consume a fair bit of power and does tend to stay pretty warm… I’d love to get to solution where I can essentially schedule wake up tasks based on upcoming recording times.
