Emby preventing WD PR4100 going to Stand by Mode

[DarkStar1977 131]

Hi Emby Team,

Latest version 4.10 even has improved the performance on my PR4100 is creating a new issue, the system never goes into Stan by Mode.

I've checked all the forums and found this one on QNAP but even removing all these plugins, the system is still running 24x7. Emby is the only application deployed in this system:

Those are my current plugins installed:

You can see that most of them are metadata related and the others are triggered by a schedule that happens less than 2 times a week, so doesn't seem to be the problem.

Library scan also is triggered once a week.

Please note that PR4100 has only options to configure Standby Mode on or off, when it's on and working, goes into sleep mode at 15 minutes of no activity.

Attached my embyserver log / hwdetection after a restart in case this helps.

Please this is urgent as my HDD are spinning 24x7 with no reason and that decreases their lifetime.

Thanks.

 

embyserver (2).txt hardware_detection-63925279695.txt

[Luke 43527]

Hi, please try removing these plugins:

2026-09-17 22:07:44.039 Info App: Loading statistics, Version=3.4.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/Statistics.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading InfuseSync, Version=1.5.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/InfuseSync.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading ChapterApi, Version=1.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/ChapterApi.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading playback_reporting, Version=2.1.0.7, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/playback_reporting.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading EpMetaRefresh, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/EpMetaRefresh.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading ClassificationMapper, Version=1.0.0.4, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/ClassificationMapper.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.413 Info App: Loading Emby.DataExplorer2, Version=4.9.1.13, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/Emby.DataExplorer2.dll
2026-09-17 22:07:44.414 Info App: Loading Emby.DiagnosticsPlugin, Version=4.8.0.81, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /mnt/HD/HD_a2/emby/plugins/Emby.DiagnosticsPlugin.dll

Then restart the server and see how things compare.

[Luke 43527]

Additionally, on the log settings page, make sure to read the help text underneath the option.

[Luke 43527]

Hi, has this helped?

[DarkStar1977 131]

On 10/9/2026 at 9:11 PM, Luke said:

Hi, has this helped?

Yes and no, sometimes when the server restarts after applying a plugin update (or any other reson), enable debug logging is set to yes authomatically and this is the cause that the system does not go into sleep mode.

 

[Luke 43527]

There's nothing in the server that automatically switches to debug mode.

[DarkStar1977 131]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

There's nothing in the server that automatically switches to debug mode.

And I trust you, but it's happening so I have to review every time it restarts to check is not enabled again.

Maybe a corrupted config file ? Any ideas ?

[Luke 43527]

Could be that I guess. Maybe something is reverting the contents of your config file? Could be a plugin although I doubt it.

[DarkStar1977 131]

Is this saved into specific file I can remove and be rebuilt automatically ?

[Luke 43527]

/config/system.xml but no you can't delete the entire file. but any saving of a setting in that file will cause it to get overwritten. I think what you want to do is first verify it's set correctly. 

Then if it changes, we can investigate why.

[DarkStar1977 131]

Ok, thanks a lot for the support on this matter.