wol-plex-server VS displayplacer

- Time Machine Backups (locally)

To monitor Plex activities, we access the local Plex API and for Time Machine we simply monitor any file access at /mnt using "lsof." In case there has been no activity for 15 consecutive minutes, the server goes to sleep. (Nobody streams, pausing a video doesn't count as activity, and no backup is running.) A Web server on a Raspberry Pi hosts a website that obtains the current state of the home server provided via the Home Assistant REST API. In case the server sleeps, and I like to backup or stream something, I can wake the server using a simple button press that sends a magic packet using a wakeonlan Perl script.

GitHub: https://github.com/m33x/wol-plex-server

How about displayplacer?

It's not something that I've tried. There was a user report at the bottom of this GitHub issue that states sidecar rotation does not work.

https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/issues/17

Alfred + "Display Placer" extension is the easiest/free way to go. You'll need to install the "Display Placer" open source app beforehand (here).

If you don't have Homebrew installed, you can install displayplacer from their releases tab:https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer/releases

Sure, here you have it https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer

Install DisplayPlacer. I use it along with Alfred (but you can trigger it many different ways). It's great for multi-monitor setups.

You can't do it with AppleScript, but there are other scripting options. A handy utility already exists though called DisplayPlacer. If you install that homebrew package, you can then create a shortcut to call SSH scripts. You'd even be able to save different display arrangements in the shortcut and call a specific one depending on where you place your iPad that day.

I’ve gave up solving the issue, but I do get around the issue by making use of https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and assigning it to a hot key via Automator.