Is there anyway in OSX (or third party software) to save 'power schemes' ?

I have a Mac mini as a media centre - it's set to sleep after 5 minutes and the display after 2 (I'm an energy saving tight git ). This works fine for viewing movies/TV etc.

However, When I'm streming video from a website, the dispay will blank a couple of minutes - and I have to manually change the display blank time in the sys prefs. Is there anyway to have...

"Normal use"
"Streaming"
"always on"

etc - and Ideally have it easily accessable on the menu bar ?

 

In the OS itself, no, you can't do that. There is limited support when you have a laptop to have different setups wether you are using the battery or power adapter, but for non laptop computers the options are available.

You might want to have a look at this, which is a location manager, I think it may allow you to have different settings per location for Energy saver (and other settings), thus you could simply have a single change in the location info which is for the Energy Saver settings.

 

Thanks Markus - that looks like it might do the job.

I'm surprised that there isn't such a thing in Macs - I do get slightly more control over my Macbook but the Mini has fairly standard options.

 

The odd thing is that Pre OS X systems did have a location manager facility built into them, quite why they took it out of OS X I don't know.

 

Yeah, I remember configuring Location Manager on all our school iMacs/iBooks.

Anyway, I've installed the software you linked to and it seems to be perfect for what I need. Although I might need some applescript/shell script to change the screensaver but thats no biggy. Thanks again!