OSX Power Management
#1
OSX Power Management
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 ?
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 ?
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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!
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!
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