I use my macbook Air m1 to run camera software and every time the dispaly goes off, it's asleep so it has to find the camera stream which takes a few seconds. on my old mac the display could be off, but the macbook was still awake. after an hour it would go to sleep. I can select prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off. but this means the mac will never sleep? I'd like it to sleep after a set period of no user input like the old one. Is that possible?
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Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
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You can try the pmset command line option. Enter your admin password when prompted, you won't see any typing feedback.
When on wall power (Charger)
sudo pmset -c sleep 60When on battery
sudo pmset -b sleep 60All the time
sudo pmset -a sleep 60I don't know if this still works in Ventura. It should work on Monterey but I never tried it with the latest versions.
Edit: An easy way to restore to the default values under Ventura (macOS 13.0.1) is to go to System Settings...>Displays>Advanced... and toggle the "Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off". This seems to reset the displaysleep and sleep back to default. I think I remember you can do the same in Monterey or something similar.
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