I would like my iMac to automatically wake-up every day at a specified time, next have Entourage download my e-mail, and then the iMac should go to sleep again at a specified time about 15 minutes later.
I am trying to accomplish this using the 'Scheduled Wake-Up and Sleep' in the Energy Saver control panel of Mac OS 9, but can't get it to work right:
- waking up the Mac at a specified time works fine
- MS-Entourage downloads my mail just fine, using a repeating connection
- however, the iMac does NOT go to sleep at the scheduled time (it just keeps running)
Any tips on how I might get this to work?
I have a broadband cable connection via the ethernet port. I am running Mac OS 9.2 on an iMac DV/SE. I am running no other application except the Finder and MS-Entourage.
I don't think you can schedule a sleep time if another application is running or the finder is not in the foreground. If I have Outlook express running.. my mac will not sleep automatically (however the monitor will switch to standby and I think my HDs will spin down automatically) until I switch to the finder.
Oh.. And how did you get OS 9.2 on your iMac? I thought 9.2 only came with the Quicksilvers?! :)
...Kelly...
I'm not sure about making the computer sleep 15 minutes later, but if it helps at all there is a sleep command in the Finder that is scriptable with AppleScript. Maybe you could write a script that would be run on startup that would check your e-mail, wait 15 minuts (this is the part that I don't know how to do) and then put the computer to sleep.
David
in article 01HW.B79D3F5D0029DA2105AC11A0@redacted.invalid, Paul Van Cotthem at paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote on 8/12/01 11:25 PM:
I would like my iMac to automatically wake-up every day at a specified time, next have Entourage download my e-mail, and then the iMac should go to sleep again at a specified time about 15 minutes later.
I am trying to accomplish this using the 'Scheduled Wake-Up and Sleep' in the Energy Saver control panel of Mac OS 9, but can't get it to work right:
- waking up the Mac at a specified time works fine
- MS-Entourage downloads my mail just fine, using a repeating connection
- however, the iMac does NOT go to sleep at the scheduled time (it just keeps running)
Any tips on how I might get this to work?
I have a broadband cable connection via the ethernet port. I am running Mac OS 9.2 on an iMac DV/SE. I am running no other application except the Finder and MS-Entourage.
Shot in the dark: if your mail program does not automatically close the connection to your ISP, the instruction to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity will be thwarted by the open connection to the ISP. There should be an email preference that closes the connection after it retrieves the mail, but that of course is a pain when you're answering email you receive during the day.
John Noble
In article 01HW.B79D3F5D0029DA2105AC11A0@redacted.invalid, paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
I would like my iMac to automatically wake-up every day at a specified time, next have Entourage download my e-mail, and then the iMac should go to sleep again at a specified time about 15 minutes later.
I am trying to accomplish this using the 'Scheduled Wake-Up and Sleep' in the Energy Saver control panel of Mac OS 9, but can't get it to work right:
- waking up the Mac at a specified time works fine
- MS-Entourage downloads my mail just fine, using a repeating connection
- however, the iMac does NOT go to sleep at the scheduled time (it just keeps running)
Any tips on how I might get this to work?
I have a broadband cable connection via the ethernet port. I am running Mac OS 9.2 on an iMac DV/SE. I am running no other application except the Finder and MS-Entourage.
In article jnoble-1308011903530001@redacted.invalid, jnoble@redacted.invalid (John Noble) wrote:
Shot in the dark: if your mail program does not automatically close the connection to your ISP, the instruction to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity will be thwarted by the open connection to the ISP. There should be an email preference that closes the connection after it retrieves the mail, but that of course is a pain when you're answering email you receive during the day.
Are you sure? I have an 'always on' cable modem and my 9.1 system has no problem sleeping, whether automatic or manually (via AppleScript).
In article 01HW.B79D3F5D0029DA2105AC11A0@redacted.invalid, paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
I would like my iMac to automatically wake-up every day at a specified time, next have Entourage download my e-mail, and then the iMac should go to sleep again at a specified time about 15 minutes later.
I am trying to accomplish this using the 'Scheduled Wake-Up and Sleep' in the Energy Saver control panel of Mac OS 9, but can't get it to work right:
- waking up the Mac at a specified time works fine
- MS-Entourage downloads my mail just fine, using a repeating connection
- however, the iMac does NOT go to sleep at the scheduled time (it just keeps running)
Any tips on how I might get this to work?
I have a broadband cable connection via the ethernet port. I am running Mac OS 9.2 on an iMac DV/SE. I am running no other application except the Finder and MS-Entourage.
in article tomstiller-D12A20.20182013082001@redacted.invalid, Tom Stiller at tomstiller@redacted.invalid wrote on 8/13/01 5:18 PM:
In article jnoble-1308011903530001@redacted.invalid, jnoble@redacted.invalid (John Noble) wrote:
Shot in the dark: if your mail program does not automatically close the connection to your ISP, the instruction to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity will be thwarted by the open connection to the ISP. There should be an email preference that closes the connection after it retrieves the mail, but that of course is a pain when you're answering email you receive during the day.
Are you sure? I have an 'always on' cable modem and my 9.1 system has no problem sleeping, whether automatic or manually (via AppleScript).
Ditto
In article 01HW.B79D3F5D0029DA2105AC11A0@redacted.invalid, paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
I would like my iMac to automatically wake-up every day at a specified time, next have Entourage download my e-mail, and then the iMac should go to sleep again at a specified time about 15 minutes later.
I am trying to accomplish this using the 'Scheduled Wake-Up and Sleep' in the Energy Saver control panel of Mac OS 9, but can't get it to work right:
- waking up the Mac at a specified time works fine
- MS-Entourage downloads my mail just fine, using a repeating connection
- however, the iMac does NOT go to sleep at the scheduled time (it just keeps running)
Any tips on how I might get this to work?
I have a broadband cable connection via the ethernet port. I am running Mac OS 9.2 on an iMac DV/SE. I am running no other application except the Finder and MS-Entourage.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 2:18:31 +0200, Tom Stiller wrote (in message tomstiller-D12A20.20182013082001@redacted.invalid):
Are you sure? I have an 'always on' cable modem and my 9.1 system has no problem sleeping, whether automatic or manually (via AppleScript).
Hi Tom,
could you send me an example of your 'sleep' AppleScript via mail please? Thanks.
In article 01HW.B79E89680004340B0B5C3880@redacted.invalid, Paul Van Cotthem paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 2:18:31 +0200, Tom Stiller wrote (in message tomstiller-D12A20.20182013082001@redacted.invalid):
Are you sure? I have an 'always on' cable modem and my 9.1 system has no problem sleeping, whether automatic or manually (via AppleScript).
Hi Tom,
could you send me an example of your 'sleep' AppleScript via mail please?
tell application "Finder" sleep end tell
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:52:07 +0200, Tom Stiller wrote (in message tomstiller-CC2107.07520714082001@redacted.invalid):
could you send me an example of your 'sleep' AppleScript via mail please?
tell application "Finder" sleep end tell
That simple huh ;-)
And is there any way to "wake up" the Mac using software, except for the "Energy Saver" control panel"?
In article 01HW.B79EE0700007767E0A55FE70@redacted.invalid, Paul Van Cotthem paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:52:07 +0200, Tom Stiller wrote (in message tomstiller-CC2107.07520714082001@redacted.invalid):
could you send me an example of your 'sleep' AppleScript via mail please?
tell application "Finder" sleep end tell
That simple huh ;-)
And is there any way to "wake up" the Mac using software, except for the "Energy Saver" control panel"?
I dunno; I never had to do it. My email client checks for mail on schedule and it seems to be able to maintain its schedule so I just wake the computer manually when i want to use it.
In article 01HW.B79EE0700007767E0A55FE70@redacted.invalid, Paul Van Cotthem paul_van_cotthem@redacted.invalid wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:52:07 +0200, Tom Stiller wrote (in message tomstiller-CC2107.07520714082001@redacted.invalid):
could you send me an example of your 'sleep' AppleScript via mail please?
tell application "Finder" sleep end tell
That simple huh ;-)
And is there any way to "wake up" the Mac using software, except for the "Energy Saver" control panel"?
We produce a product called DssW Power Manager. It is a Mac automation and power management suite. Its features include the ability to schedule your Mac to start up, shut down, sleep and wake up to a schedule. DssW Power Manager is also fully scriptable.
http://www.dssw.co.uk/powermanager/
It may be of some interest to you, particularly if you find Apple's Energy Saver control panel limiting.
Yours sincerely,
DssW Supportsupport@redacted.invalid Powerful Macintosh Software http://www.dssw.co.uk
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:46:31 +0200, DssW Support wrote (in message 140820012046314172%support@redacted.invalid):
And is there any way to "wake up" the Mac using software, except for the "Energy Saver" control panel"?
We produce a product called DssW Power Manager. It is a Mac automation and power management suite. Its features include the ability to schedule your Mac to start up, shut down, sleep and wake up to a schedule. DssW Power Manager is also fully scriptable.
http://www.dssw.co.uk/powermanager/
It may be of some interest to you, particularly if you find Apple's Energy Saver control panel limiting.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.