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• You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

  by GrayFox (5028)

  Hey I had the same problem, I built a Cocoa solution using the IOPowerManager interface, dailyWakeup. When periodic daily then runs I have it requeue a request for the next day. I also wrote a GUI interface to the timer queue ( Cocoa based). My main problem is that when I wake the box up, it won't stay awake very long, just three or four minutes even though the energy saver panel is set for 15 minutes. Details at: http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa --Jerry
  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    Yes, I just saw that yesterday. I was going to ask you if you know why I would have something scheduled for wakeup, that sometimes it won't wake up at all.
    • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

      by GrayFox (5028)

      If you look at the system log, I bet it will show the wakeup did take place, it probably went back to sleep before the task fired. I find that I have to fiddle a bit to get the wakeup close enought to task time. Cron only checks one a minute... Jerry
      • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

        by pudge (1)

        No, I had the wakeup scheduled hours before it went to sleep, then it went to sleep, and it never woke up hours later, when it was scheduled to.
        • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

          by GrayFox (5028)

          This morning I had a wakeup scheduled for about 3:13:45 am
          this was in my system log.
          Apr 27 03:15:02 macjerry syslogd: restart
          Apr 27 03:15:03 macjerry kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties AutoWake 0x00000000
          Apr 27 03:15:03 macjerry kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties AutoPower 0x00000000
          Apr 27 03:15:03 macjerry kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties AutoWake 0x00015123
          Apr 27 03:15:03 macjerry osascript: LaunchApplication(/System/Library/CoreServices/System Events.app)
          Apr 27 03:15:59 macjerry /u
          • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

            by pudge (1)

            Apr 28 02:55:08 localhost kernel: System Sleep
            Apr 28 02:55:08 localhost kernel: System Wake
            Apr 28 02:55:08 localhost kernel: Wake event 0040
            Apr 28 02:55:09 localhost kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI
            Apr 28 02:55:09 localhost kernel: ^PAirPort:  Link UP:  "PudgeLAN" - xxxxxxx - chan 10
            Apr 28 02:55:12 localhost mDNSResponder[174]: mDNSResponder Waking at 3704028
            Apr 28 02:55:12 localhost kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setProperties AutoWake 0x00000000
            Apr 28 02:55:12 localhost kernel: ApplePMUUserClient::setP
            • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

              by GrayFox (5028)

              Nope, I never thought about it :) I suspect each keydown, mousemotion probably sets a watchdog timer, since nothing gets moved/pressed it is not clear to me what would happen... Jerry
              • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

                by pudge (1)

                Yeah, if I get some time, I may try to see if I can't reset that timer.
                • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

                  by GrayFox (5028)

                  Hmm,
                  Let's try a photosensor looking at the screen, when activated
                  by the wakeup, cut current to electromagnet holding weight
                  above keyboard, yeah that ought to do the trick :)
                  
                  I have not tried (at any time) system events, do you think
                  simulating a key press would do the trick?
                  
                  Jerry
                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

                    by pudge (1)

                    I dunno. My first attempt was going to be to look for the timer itself, to reset it. My next was going to be to try simulating it as you mentioned.
                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

                    by GrayFox (5028)

                    Got this from someone at apple... // cc -o keypress keypress.c -framework Carbon
                    #include
                    main() {
                            UpdateSystemActivity(OverallAct);
                            return 0;
                    }
                    
                    He said it "might" work.
                    
                    I got my full fifteen minutes last night...
                    
                    Jerry
                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

                    by GrayFox (5028) on 2004.04.29 8:59 (#30459)

                    Whoops, the include did not include...
                    
                    // cc -o keypress keypress.c -framework Carbon
                    #include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
                    main() {
                        UpdateSystemActivity(OverallAct);
                        return 0;
                    }
                    
                    Jerry

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                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

                    by pudge (1)

                    I just added this to my perl script instead of making it a separate program, fwiw. And I tried it, and it woke the screen up after it had gone to sleep, so that's a good sign. :-)
                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:1)

                    by GrayFox (5028)

                    I created 400.keypress containing:
                    #!/bin/sh
                    /usr/local/bin/keypress
                    
                    and dumped it into
                    /etc/periodic/{daily | weekly | daily} ( and made sure it is executable )
                    
                    It fired first when cron started and I got my 15 minutes of fame.
                    
                    http://homepage.mac.com/Cocoa for the whole story/package
                    
                    Jerry
                  • Re:You should have looked harder :) (Score:2)

                    by pudge (1)

                    Last night the machine stayed awake for awhile, but then Backup.app didn't run at 3 a.m. like it was supposed to. Grrrr! Maybe I'll try waking it up earlier than 2:55 a.m.