Cannot connect when Core PC is sleeping

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Roon doesn’t wake over network, you have to use another app to wake the PC first, and then connect.

See:

Can't Wake-on-LAN w/ Mac

I’ve had Roon for a year and it has been good, if not a huge advance for me running Logitech Media Server with a Qobuz plugin and Squeezepad as a controller on my Ipad . Now Roon core is running on my Imac upstairs and I use the app on the Ipad as a controller. But the lack of Wake on LAN is driving me nuts - just about every time I want to play some music I have to whizz upstairs and wake the Mac up. I understand the lack of a WOL feature is absent from Roon and has been for many years. Roon …

And to vote for it as a Feature Request:

Server Sleep and Wake on LAN

In today’s “Green” world, I think it’s a good idea if the Roon Headless Server can be allowed to sleep after an inactivity period I have my Mac ‘server’ set to sleep after a certain period of inactivity…but it does not detect that the Roon app is actually sending data to an Endpoint…the Mac goses to sleep and therefore Music stops without any warning Can Roon change its communication to the OS, such that the OS knows that there is Activity and therefore does not allow the computer / server to …