Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

[amstel78]

MP5,1 running 10.14.6 (18G8022) keeps waking up every two hours due to RTC (Alarm). Logs show the following for example:

Can't seem to determine the root cause. I've just disabled 'Wake for network access' and will continue to test. Any other suggestions?

Edit: interestingly enough, my MP3,1 running 10.15.7 also wakes every 2 hours. Commonality between the two is wake for network access being enabled. I do have to leave that on with the MP3,1 though as it functions as a file server in another room.

 

[saudor]

What does your pmset -g assertions say?
For me, i was able to get rid of the RTC crap by issuing the following:
Of course the usual culprits like wake for network should be off too

sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0

 

[amstel78]

The assertions change depending on when the command is entered in terminal as sometimes, background processes start and end during the query.

Here's what it reports almost right after reboot:

And 30 seconds later:

What does the proximitywake value encompass?

EDIT: NVM - I googled proximitywake and unless the MP3,1 and MP5,1 are bouncing off each other since both are logged in with the same iCloud account, not sure if it would apply. Worth a test later though.

 

[saudor]

The assertions change depending on when the command is entered in terminal as sometimes, background processes start and end during the query.

Here's what it reports almost right after reboot:


And 30 seconds later:

What does the proximitywake value encompass?

EDIT: NVM - I googled proximitywake and unless the MP3,1 and MP5,1 are bouncing off each other since both are logged in with the same iCloud account, not sure if it would apply. Worth a test later though.

If you have iOS devices, that could also be another reason. Anyways i had this issue for the longest time, did tons of research and eventually came across proximitywake. Didnt make sense at the time but did it anyways. No issues since then.

 

[amstel78]

No iOS devices here. I'm an Android guy myself. But, if turning 'Wake for network access' doesn't solve it, then I'll turn proximitywake off.