Prevent sleep *for active modes only*
I starting using SecuritySpy from about a month ago as a hobby and I'm hooked!
I have a feature request that I believe should be easily implemented. I like for my computer to sleep on a daily schedule (midnight to 6am) to reduce the power load. However, I'd like to prevent this sleep cycle from occurring *only when SecuritySpy has any cameras in an active state.*
I think an elegant solution to this is if you introduced another tickbox in your preferences screen. Under where it says "Prevent computer from automatic sleep", you can have a sub-preference (indented) with another tickbox, that reads "Only when there are one or more cameras in an Active state".
What do you think?
I have a feature request that I believe should be easily implemented. I like for my computer to sleep on a daily schedule (midnight to 6am) to reduce the power load. However, I'd like to prevent this sleep cycle from occurring *only when SecuritySpy has any cameras in an active state.*
I think an elegant solution to this is if you introduced another tickbox in your preferences screen. Under where it says "Prevent computer from automatic sleep", you can have a sub-preference (indented) with another tickbox, that reads "Only when there are one or more cameras in an Active state".
What do you think?
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I see the utility of what you are trying to achieve, however I don't think this would work particularly well as a feature implemented in SecuritySpy itself, because once asleep SecuritySpy has no way of waking up the Mac again. So if SecuritySpy allows the Mac to sleep, it may never wake up, and therefore no further recording will take place, even when the cameras are scheduled to go back to Active mode again.
What you want can be achieved using a combination of a few AppleScripts and a schedule, set in the Energy Saver system preference, that wakes the Mac at a certain time of the day. However I would say that it's better to leave the Mac awake all the time, as this will provide the most reliable CCTV system, and reliability is extremely important.
