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radicalgel

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Jun 6, 2009
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I've had this Mac on Catalina 10.15.5 for a few weeks now and suddenly noticed this battery drain overnight. It went from 60% to 3% two nights ago and happening last night too. After doing some digging I noticed that com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.remindd.time-alarm seems to be waking up the Mac every few secs. Googling it says that it's related to scheduled reminders which I have a few of but disabling those hasn't helped either. I've attached a snippet of the pmset log below. Basically these set of lines repeat all night, even when the lid is shut. Can someone please help?

Code:
2020-06-26 13:30:24 +0530 Sleep                   Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep':TCPKeepAlive=active Using Batt (Charge:100%) 76 secs  
2020-06-26 13:30:29 +0530 Wake Requests           [*process=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance deltaSecs=2562 wakeAt=2020-06-26 14:13:11] [process=powerd request=TCPKATurnOff deltaSecs=40962 wakeAt=2020-06-27 00:53:11] [process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=19771 wakeAt=2020-06-26 19:00:00 info="com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.remindd.time-alarm,326"]          
2020-06-26 13:30:29 +0530 PM Client Acks          Delays to Sleep notifications: [com.apple.apsd is slow(1965 ms)] [mDNSResponder is slow(5016 ms)]          
2020-06-26 13:31:38 +0530 Kernel Client Acks      Delays to Sleep notifications: [powerd is slow(5020 ms)] [AppleUSBVHCIBCE driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(311 ms)] [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(357 ms)] [ATY,Boa driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(353 ms)] [RP01 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(1015 ms)]          
2020-06-26 13:31:40 +0530 Kernel Client Acks      Delays to Wake notifications: [RP17 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(738 ms)] [UPSB driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(955 ms)] [UPSB driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(953 ms)] [PEG0 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(498 ms)]

I also noticed that certain scheduled tasks persist in the System Information > Power > Next Scheduled Events even if they've been removed from the reminders app so I'm wondering if this is the issue?

Screenshot 2020-06-26 at 2.00.00 PM.png
 
I'm having this exact same issue. Only one scheduled event though, but dated 29/05/2120, 18:00. I just set up this new MacBook Pro 16" (2019) by transferring the Time Machine backup of my MacBook Pro 13" (2016) during setup.

Edit: I just installed the 10.15.5 Combo update, and that didn't have any effect.
 
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I read through man pmset again, and found the command sudo pmset schedule cancelall. That solved the problem. At least so far it seems that way.

Edit: I want to add that after rebooting and later connecting to power, a new scheduled power event showed up. Another com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.remindd.time-alarm, but this time not set so far in the future. And it isn't accompanied by the powerd process using > 100% CPU.
 
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