Comments on: Scheduling Workflows with Energy Saver

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:16:06 +0000

Hi, you need to check that ical is running i think… it works on my imac

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 May 2006 22:09:14 +0000

I got it working doing this:

1) Create the workflow as described in the tutorial 2) Save the workflow as an iCal plug-in (Save As Plug-in->iCal) 3) Adjust the time (in iCal) you want the alarm to begin 4) Set the mac to wake up 1 minute before in the Energy Saver settings

Voila!

Hope this helps Dave

By: algal

algal — Mon, 29 May 2006 08:13:12 +0000

Is there a way to automatically run an automator workflow or script on wake-from-sleep? This could solve a much bigger problem than making the mac an alarrm clock.

It could be used to write a script that would automatically mount network shares depending on where you are, by switching off of network location, wireless net name. The main example: automatically mounting your media server when you're at home.

Such a script would ideally be triggered any time the machine acquired a connection, but it would suffice if it ran on every login or wake-from-sleep. But no one know how to do this without hacking files within /System

By: biru

biru — Sun, 14 May 2006 01:31:45 +0000

Uh, login items get executed at LOGIN, not wakeup.

Why not run it w/ cron or launchd?

By: David

David — Sat, 06 May 2006 06:26:45 +0000

I have tried this iTunes wake-up workflow and I can’t seem to get it to work. I’ve followed the instructions to create the workflow but when my computer starts up I get nothing. Should Automator be running, can the computer just be sleeping and wakes up or do I have to shut it down. I feel I’m missing something, probably something simple. Thanks for any comments.