Initiating VSTS Hosted Build agent in sleep/hibernate mode

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I'm using the free visual studio (Now Team Services)

VSTS hosted build by definition needs an always-on box. It's shown with a green box under available agents.

I have a machine at home which I want to run these builds. EVerything works fine when the machine is up and running, I want to know if there is a way to use the box when it's in power saving (sleep/hibernate)?

I can RDP / browse to that box when it's in sleep/hibernate mode it just takes a few seconds to come back up so I need to retry the connection a few times.

Is there a way to:

1. Force a build agent to be used if it appears offline?
2. Retry accessing that build agent for x number of minutes (to give it time to wake up) ?

asked 12 secs ago

user281921

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Initiating VSTS Hosted Build agent in sleep/hibernate mode