How do I give Emby permissions to set wake timers?

[sward 28]

Hello - I need to give Emby permissions to set wake timers, as I missed a recording last night due to my computer being asleep. Currently I can see in my logs that Emby tries to set wake timers, but doesn't have permission. Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

Hi, it has more to do with the windows user that is running emby server, and usually out of the box there's nothing you need to do.

[sward 28]

That's what I thought, but I'm running Emby server from the admin account, so what else do I need to do?

[Luke 42077]

On 3/21/2024 at 5:38 AM, sward said:

That's what I thought, but I'm running Emby server from the admin account, so what else do I need to do?

Can you try using "run as" to run as admin, and see if that makes a difference?

[sward 28]

I have it set to "run server at startup" from the admin account, and in checking the task manager, it's already running under the admin account:

[Luke 42077]

Try shutting it down and then trying what I asked because that will have it run elevated which is different.

[sward 28]

OK, I checked the box to "run as administrator" so we'll see what happens. I noticed that I now have to manually launch it b/c there's a UAC prompt to allow "this app to make changes to your computer."

[Luke 42077]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[sward 28]

Luke - it seems to be creating wake timers now, and I can see them in Task Scheduler. While in there I noticed some upcoming timers that were created for recordings I had already canceled. Seems if you cancel a recording, Emby doesn't go into Task Scheduler to remove the wake timer.

[Luke 42077]

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Seems if you cancel a recording, Emby doesn't go into Task Scheduler to remove the wake timer.

Correct. At this time, we don't do that.