Well, it dawned on me that we should be able to invoke caffeinate as it
is from ReallyPreventStandby instead of Gordon's sleep-inhibit (although
I see from the source of this that it was also using assertions, but
differently from caffeinate and presumably not in a way that works under
Mountain Lion).

ReallyPreventStandby has these settings:

Allow standby after how many idle minutes?
Prohibit standby if players are on?
Inhibit standby command
Re-enable standby command
Inhibit is a toggle command

Under OSX, by default, the inhibit command is set to sleep-inhibit with
a period of 60 seconds. There is no re-enable command and the inhibit
command is not a toggle (meaning it gets called periodically - I guess
every 60 seconds or thereabouts).

My first try was to set these as:  /us/bin/caffeinate -i (which creates
an assertion to prevent the system from idle sleeping), pkill
caffeinate, and command is a toggle. But found that caffeinate was not
getting invoked (I do not know why).

So instead I am now using: /usr/bin/caffeinate -i -t 60 (create the
assertion for 60 seconds), no re-enable command, and inhibit is not a
toggle.

This now seems to be working! Well, after about 30 minutes of listening
I did get the system going into standby while playing once. Just
wondering if this was due to one invocation of caffeinate terminating
before a new one is started.

Gordon - I notice that usually a second caffeinate is invoked before the
previous one times out. Is this intentional/designed? Is the 60 seconds
a built-in period for the re-invocaction? Any ideas why I could not get
it working as a toggle?

By the way, I have my system sleep time set to 10 minutes. I am
currently running with ReallyPreventStandby set to preventing standby if
players are on - when I had the system going into standby while playing
this setting was off.

I will try it for a couple of days and then post again.


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