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Deep_Thought

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Oct 13, 2008
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Hi,

I'm looking for a program that will schedule my Mac to wake up for 5 minutes, then go back to sleep if there is no activity, hourly mon-fri 8-5 - does anyone know of a program which will do this?
 
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* Launch System Preferences
* Click “Energy Saver” (it’s the coiled eco-friendly lightbulb icon)
* Click the “Schedule” button in the lower right portion of the preference pane
* Set whether you want your Mac to sleep, wake, boot, shutdown, or whatever
* Set the appropriate times
* Click ‘OK’
 
Thanks, I know about the built in power saver but there is not enough flexibility in the system to allow multiple wakeup/sleep schedules per day...
 
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Use that to wake the mac and set your power prefs to make it sleep if idle for x amount of time?
 
But that will only wake it once per day.. I need it to wake up at 10, 11, 12, 1pm, 2, 3 & 4 for 5 minutes and then go back to sleep with an overall plan to keep it awake outside of that time.
 
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