Overview

A Wake On LAN feature has been added to MediaPortal. It's useful if you store your media files on a remote server that goes into sleep mode if not beeing used for a while. MediaPortal will try to wake up the server before accessing media files in My Videos, My Pictures and My Music.

Description of Change

Configuration

A new button to configure Wake On LAN parameters has been added to the Folders configuration window. A new column has also been added which contains the MAC address of the server once discovered.

WOL parameters

WOL timeout (in seconds)

Default: 10

How long Mediaportal should wait before giving up trying to wake the server.

WOL resend time (in minutes)

Default: 1

A Wake On LAN message can be sent perodicaly to assure that the server will not go into sleep mode while MediaPortal is using it. A Wake On LAN message will not be sent again if the server share has been used in the last x minutes. This time should be set to be less than your server or NAS idle time before it will go to standby.

Wait time after WOL (in seconds)

Default: 0

Some server shares are not accessible after the server wakes up, even if it responds on the network. It might need a couple of seconds before being able to serve content. Using this option you may configure a short time that MediaPortal will wait before trying to access the media files after the server responds on the network following a wake up from sleep mode.

Edit Folder

Enable Wake On Lan

Enables the Wake On Lan feature for this folder. Other folders stored on the same server may be configured independently to wake up the server when beeing accessed. This option can only be enabled for UNC paths (i.e.

\\server\videos

).

Learn MAC addresses now

Click this button to let MediaPortal find and store the server's MAC address. This is needed for MediaPortal to find the server on the network when trying to wake the server. The discovered MAC address is displayed in the Folders configuration window as displayed above.

It can be necessary to enable this registry key after Windows 7 version (Window 8 and 10) 

Link : https://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/...(v=ws.10).aspx

To configure the EnableLinkedConnections registry value

1. Click Start, type regedit in the Start programs and files box, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate and then right-click the registry subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.
3. Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type EnableLinkedConnections, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click EnableLinkedConnections, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.

Using Wake On LAN

When entering Videos, Music and Pictures in MediaPortal, offline shares will be indicated by a new offline icon if your selected skin supports it.

MediaPortal will try to wake the server when opening the offline share.

Additional Information and References