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canac
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February 11, 2022
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S2 app wakes up my sleeping PC

  • February 11, 2022
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Can someone explain to me the logic behind the annoying “feature” S2 app has that wakes up my PC every time a new piece of music starts playing?
I explain. I have S2 running on my PC. I select a station I want to play. Then I put my PC to sleep (so it turns my computer and the monitors off so it doesn’t use energy) and go downstairs to do my stuff or to stay with my friends. The music plays and the moment a new song comes on, my computers comes out of sleep mode and is “ready” for something. 

I was told once by support guy that this is so in case you want to change the music, it’s already there. Why on Earth I want this to be ready if I’m downstairs (or far away) from the machine? Do they know that people can do the same from their phone app?

It’s just plain stupid and a waste of energy. My PC has some LED lights so I can’t use it when I want to have a relaxing nap. I have to make sure that I shutdown the app first before putting my PC to sleep.

So annoying.

Anyone has the same problem?

 

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Best answer by ratty

Disable Wake-On-LAN on that adapter. 

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Stanley_4
Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
February 11, 2022

Why not just close the Sonos app if you are done using it and want the Windows system to stay in sleep?

controlav
controlav
Lead Maestro
February 11, 2022

I have never seen this in all my years of using a PC with Sonos.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    canacAuthor
    Trending Lyricist I
    February 12, 2022

    Why not just close the Sonos app if you are done using it and want the Windows system to stay in sleep?

    Well, there should be no need to remember to do this action. It’s a computer after all and the app should know that if I want the PC to sleep, I want it to stay that way. It doesn’t mean that I want it to wake up when the next song comes on. It’s just bad app design. If there was a setting for that, that would be great.

    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 12, 2022

    Next time it wakes up, run cmd.exe and type powercfg /lastwake and it will tell you why it woke up.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
      canacAuthor
      Trending Lyricist I
      February 12, 2022

      I have never seen this in all my years of using a PC with Sonos.

      You mean, it doesn’t happen to you? I would understand if I was playing music from the hard drive. Yes, the computer needs to be active but I’m using the streamer only which can work independently. 

      The S2 is only a controller just like the mobile app. Imagine your phone app being constantly activated for the same reason? It doesn’t happen there.

      I’m just hoping that someone from Sonos support could see this post and be able to shine some light on it because the support person I was talking to had no idea and didn’t find it unusual. 

        canacAuthor
        Trending Lyricist I
        February 12, 2022

        Next time it wakes up, run cmd.exe and type powercfg /lastwake and it will tell you why it woke up.

        I think it’s the streamer doing it the same way I would use the keyboard to wake it up. I got this output:

        powercfg /lastwake
        Wake History Count - 1
        Wake History [0]
          Wake Source Count - 1
          Wake Source [0]
            Type: Device
            Instance Path: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_2600&SUBSYS_26001A56&REV_21\4&b6027c0&0&00E0
            Friendly Name: Killer E2600 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
            Description: Killer E2600 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
            Manufacturer: Killer

         

          ratty
          rattyAnswer
          February 12, 2022

          Disable Wake-On-LAN on that adapter. 

            canacAuthor
            Trending Lyricist I
            February 12, 2022

            Disable Wake-On-LAN on that adapter. 

            THANK YOU ratty and controlav for your amazing help. The problem’s solved. 

            In my case, my adapter doesn’t have WOL enable/disable. It has only Value 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps First. I didn’t change it but in ‘Power Management’ I only enabled the last option ‘Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer’. This works. I could probably uncheck the ‘Allow this device...’ 

            At least I know where to look at if I have problems of this sort again.

            Again, thank you so much guys. 

             

              controlav
              controlav
              Lead Maestro
              February 12, 2022

              I wonder what is sending the magic packet? Do you have a Roam or a Move? I thought they were the only devices to use WOL, but maybe not. And even then, the Sonos app only sends those specific devices a WOL packet. Unless you are maybe running a media server or something on the PC, or it thinks you are. Do you have “Show media servers” or “Show upnp servers” options enabled?

              Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
              ratty
              ratty
              February 12, 2022

              The PC was evidently set to wake on ANY directed packet. With the controller still subscribed, the system would have been sending periodic event notifications. 

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