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Use an Apple-provided tool to control sleep/wake cycles
Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 15, '06 04:14:57PM

Hope you don't mind if I just ask here, before going through all the joining-up rigmarole to download that SleepX:

Will it let you specify different sleep and wake times for different days? That's one thing I wish OSX had, out of the box. I run an old Mac as a music and file server, and use it to record some local radio shows, too. It'd be great if I could tell it: wake up at 4pm on Tuesdays, 8pm on Wednesdays, and noon on Saturdays [I'd also want to specify different shutdown times for each day].



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Use an Apple-provided tool to control sleep/wake cycles
Authored by: vocaro on Aug 31, '06 01:21:15AM

I'm trying out SleepX now, and I don't think it can do that. You can specify the parameters of the cycle, but I believe it must have a constant period. In other words, it can't wake up at different times on different days as you had hoped.



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Use an Apple-provided tool to control sleep/wake cycles
Authored by: DrLex on Sep 01, '06 05:40:29AM
There used to be a shareware tool that can do this:
http://www.ibeezz.com/
Development has stopped, but you can still download it. I don't know if it still works on recent versions of OS X and if they removed any registration requirements, but it may be worth a shot.

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