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

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