MacOS/AppleTV-MrMC playback stops after computer goes to sleep or to lock screen

[bringmecoffeeortea]

I'm finding playback halts after about an hour, and I think this may be because my Energy Saver preferences have the computer set to sleep at an hour (though tbh I find that feature of MacOS kinda wonky, I don't think my computer ever actually sleeps). I have to go to the computer and wake the screen and type my password to then resume uninterrupted playback. Also in Energy Saver Display sleep is set for 30 minutes, "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" is enabled and "Wake for network access" is enabled. If this is a MRMC issue then don't worry about it I'm happy to wait for a Jellyfin AppleTV app.

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: MacOS Catalina
• Virtualization: No
• Clients: AppleTV MRMC
• Browser: No
• Jellyfin Version: 10.5.5
• Playback: Unsure
• Installed Plugins: No
• Reverse Proxy: None
• Base URL: [e.g. none, yes: /example]
• Networking: [e.g. Host, Bridge/NAT]
• Storage: local external drive

To Reproduce

1. Start a show
2. Watch for an hour
3. Show stops / pauses

Expected behavior
No pausing I think the computer should know it's being used and continue to send the stream.

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[anthonylavado]

Oh whoops. Let me take care of that.

[stophecom]

I ran into the same issue. As a workaround you could just prevent the Mac from going to sleep: Set Energy Saver Timeout to never.

Side note. In my case I wanted to use a MacBook Pro as a server and noticed that it would always go to sleep when closing the lid. In such case you might want to use this app Amphetamine that prevents the laptop from sleeping when folded.

Still, I'd be happy for better solution where the app kept running in the background.

Any news on this? 😄

[anthonylavado]

Hey, thanks for reminding me on this actually. I want to say there was some research I did to know whether or not this was possible, and it wasn't easy. I'll move this to the correct repo for the .app wrapper.

I think the last time I researched it, Plex had a solution where someone wrote a script to keep the server awake whenever playback was detected in the server log file. Not elegant, but we may have to do something similar. The main issue I see is that our clients won't wake your Mac from sleep (I don't think Plex does either), but we can try to keep it awake while streaming is happening.

[stophecom]

Thanks.

clients won't wake your Mac from sleep

Agree. I now just prevent Mac from sleeping altogether, which is good enough for me. I actually found the following script that doesn't require installing additional apps, like I mentioned previously.

https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/2ae98341e7e5e64d32b734b871614915