are there going to be any wake on lan funktions for server and on the player for mac and pc?
I would really love this implemented!
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WOL works fine for me (PMS is on a Mac).
But want it for windows pms to
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Me too, plus 1!
are there going to be any wake on lan funktions for server and on the player for mac and pc?
and instigated from Samsung Plex App. Basically needs to be possible to instigate from any client and PMS itself when it needs to do a scheduled scan
I'am going to Vote no on this.... WOL to me just means to lazy to go turn your computer on. :\
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I'am going to Vote no on this.... WOL to me just means to lazy to go turn your computer on. :\
The computer is not always where you are... so please. Not theoretically possible at all times. And the computer may not be where the client in use is. So with sleep enabled it would mean whenever i want to start using Plex on my Samsung TV I have to go to the computer, wake it up and then go back to my samsung and start plex.
As for remote access when you are away from home... so it is hard luck is it?? or have to start a LogMeIn session, click on 'Turn Computer On' and then go to Plex client.
Why can it not all be managed within Plex
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Im a yes. My PMS is always on (never sleeps) so I dont really care and I didnt even know it wasnt allready supported, but it seems like an obvious feature for a media server.
Sorry to me when you say "Server" it means that it's never off. So if you are turning your "Server" off for any reason, then it's not a server :\
-just my 2c :)
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Sorry to me when you say "Server" it means that it's never off. So if you are turning your "Server" off for any reason, then it's not a server :\
-just my 2c :)
Fine - I do have a Windows 2008 File Server that is never off but I run PMS on a Windows 7 Ultimate PC and the 'server' bit comes from the name : Plex Media Server. It is not used constantly like the File Server is and so would be nice to let it sleep sometimes. But at the moment I have it as always awake until there is provision for it to go to sleep and wake up when needed
Sorry to me when you say "Server" it means that it's never off. So if you are turning your "Server" off for any reason, then it's not a server :\
-just my 2c :)
In my case, it's a server that just happens to run on my HTPC :D
OrionShock, on 13 Aug 2013 - 08:31, said:
Sorry to me when you say "Server" it means that it's never off. So if you are turning your "Server" off for any reason, then it's not a server :\
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The computer is not always where you are... so please.
WOL is a magic packet sending out the MAC Addy of the target multiple times, and req. multicast, which is not routed, so if you are away from home, it would not work anyway....It's a local lan thing, AFAIK
/T
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WOL is a magic packet sending out the MAC Addy of the target multiple times, and req. multicast, which is not routed, so if you are away from home, it would not work anyway....It's a local lan thing, AFAIK
/T
So am I getting mixed up ? How does www.logmein.com do it ? I always got my windows 7 ultimate 64 bit PC switched on by LogMeIn if it was off for power saving? Is this not the feature we are talking about here? Sorry if there are two different functions I got confused about
So am I getting mixed up ? How does www.logmein.com do it ? I always got my windows 7 ultimate 64 bit PC switched on by LogMeIn if it was off for power saving? Is this not the feature we are talking about here? Sorry if there are two different functions I got confused about
Pretty sure it requires another (non sleeping) machine running LogMeIn in the same LAN. WOL requests are then triggered through this machine.
Can you confirm if you have another machine in your LAN with LogMeIn installed?
Source:
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Pretty sure it requires another (non sleeping) machine running LogMeIn in the same LAN. WOL requests are then triggered through this machine.
Can you confirm if you have another machine in your LAN with LogMeIn installed?
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Wow ! Thank you. I never knew that. LogmeIn client is installed on other PCs on the LAN and yes there is at least one that does not sleep !
I will go into hibernate now !
OK we might still achieve the end result by getting help from cooperating machines with PMC or PHT that do not sleep !!
If you port forward the WOL port then the router simply forwards this to the target IP, it 'forgets' the mac address which was targeted (i.e. the Layer 2 Broadcast stuff which Tommy mentions).
Essentially some routers will allow port forwarding to a broadcast address or allow modification of the ARP tables (or MAC Address table if you like), This however is heading towards enterprise routers so costs spiral.
This is a great 'Wake on WAN' article which has helped me previously:
http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/24043-wake-on-wan-warning-long/
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If you port forward the WOL port then the router simply forwards this to the target IP, it 'forgets' the mac address which was targeted (i.e. the Layer 2 Broadcast stuff which Tommy mentions).
Essentially some routers will allow port forwarding to a broadcast address or allow modification of the ARP tables (or MAC Address table if you like), This however is heading towards enterprise routers so costs spiral.
This is a great 'Wake on WAN' article which has helped me previously:
http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/24043-wake-on-wan-warning-long/
Many thanks for the excellent reference document.
Actually this has all been a distraction - my main need is for this to work within the local network eg my Samsung Plex App downstairs waking up my PMS machine upstairs or my Android Plex App waking PMS up. I would be happy with this being available locally and I can use other means to wake up the PMS machine remotely. So I think it means all the Plex clients need to have the feature of waking up PMS.
I would probably not open up any other ports on the router. It took a while before I convinced myself that it was safe to open the port for PMS !
If you port forward the WOL port then the router simply forwards this to the target IP, it 'forgets' the mac address which was targeted (i.e. the Layer 2 Broadcast stuff which Tommy mentions).
Essentially some routers will allow port forwarding to a broadcast address or allow modification of the ARP tables (or MAC Address table if you like), This however is heading towards enterprise routers so costs spiral.
This is a great 'Wake on WAN' article which has helped me previously:
http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php/topic/24043-wake-on-wan-warning-long/
Some extra info
Any ddwrt router has the capability to remember mac adress and host ip adress. My asus rt66 has also a commandline in which i set my arp table manually. So after my server turns off, i still can wake up this server.
Works great!
