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Gbt
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December 14, 2020

Windows 10 Wake on LAN

  • December 14, 2020
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Hi,

Question - is there a way to enable WOL from the Sonos App or Play 5 to bring a networked pc out of sleep.

If not, are there plans to introduce this basic functionality at some point?

 

Background:

I have several devices that access a shared folder (external USB drive) on my Windows 10 PC. While the PC is powered on, everything works fine and Sonos can access everything.

In order to save some trees I have set my PC to sleep if no activity for 5 minutes and use WOL to enable access via my other apps (e.g. Mezzmo). This works fine and the PC comes out of sleep as soon as anything tries to access the drive. EXCEPT for Sonos.

It appears that Sonos does not send a WOL packet so the PC remains off when i try to play anything from my shared drive. This means I either power on my PC and disable the sleep function so the drive is always available (waste of power/trees) or only use Sonos while I am working on my PC (not convenient as the speaker is in a different room to my office and I have a very nice set of speakers attached to my PC already).

 

Thanks

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amun
December 16, 2020

Most users with several hundred £’s worth of kit and a reasonable local library would think nothing of adding a NAS. A basic one need not cost much more than £140. Most these days will wake from idle and spin up their disk(s) on receipt of a file request.

Yes, but often not quick enough for Sonos, so I just leave mine running…. With all the other costs of a modern household, leaving a disk spinning seems pretty minor...

The old trick was to browse Music Library/Albums. The artwork requests would nudge the disk into life. A subsequent play request wouldn’t then time out. 

Yes, and this did work… But being forgetful and lazy, it just seemed easier to leave the drive spinning ;-)

As as aside, it’s only a cheap LG NAS, but it’s been running 24x7 for 9 years now - and it will probably fail the minutes I save this post….

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