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2. Have no active renderers/players on the network.

That is an interesting prerequisite. I have several devices on my network that are considered renderers like my sound receiver, tv, amazon tv stick running kodi, etc. For me, having no active renderers/players is almost impossible.

The inbuilt ...

You know UMS has a "Prevent Windows from sleeping" option on the "General configuration tab"?

Yes, but that option prevents the computer from going to sleep irrespective of whether it is streaming or not... essentially keep it awake all the time which is not what I want for energy conservation ...

I am building a little utility that will prevent system from entering sleep mode only when UMS is streaming any content to a renderer. I was wondering if there is anything that I can monitor on the server machine to determine whether UMS is actively streaming or not? Thanks in advance!

This is a good suggestion and I really hope that the upcoming versions of UMS incorporate this feature into the product.