On 4 May 2012, at 1:45 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On May 4, 2012, at 11:22, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E]" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I will contact the vendor (Elgato) and see if they have any suggestions. I >> only have the software configured to record a few music shows each weekend >> on PBS, so I don't know why it has to wake up my mac every few hours all >> week long. Maybe it is continually looking for updates regarding TV channel >> data. Perhaps I can turn this updating off. > > If you tell your computer to never sleep and then you turn off the screen > (either via the screensaver of by pressing Shift-control+eject) then the > periodic task that eyetv needs to run will not turn on the screen. > > The computer actually consumes very little power when it is idle and the > screen is off, and chances are quite good you will never notice the > difference.
Hi LuKreme, I will give that a try. Thanks! Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
