shawnrice/alfred-2-caffeinate-workflow

An Alfred2 workflow to control the system caffeinate utility (prevents sleep).

alfred-2-caffeinate-workflow's Issues

not working on alfred 4

I Think this cause by:

VPREFS="$HOME/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-2/Workflow Data/"
NVPREFS="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/"

by change NVPREFS variable:

NVPREFS="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/"

It works!

Set default timeout?

Is there a way to set a default timeout, i.e. can I make it so that if I activate caffeinate without any arguments, it would be automatically disabled after say, 5 hours?

Enabling with no timeout, i.e. forever, shows "Caffeinate will be active for another "

It looks like the check for whether caffeinate is running forever doesn't always work. For me, in script.sh on line 35, $total is 0, not empty.

if [[ -z "$total" ]]; then

The check should be something like

if [[ -z "$total" || "$total" == 0 ]]; then

False positives when searching for caffeinate process

When invoking workflow search command

ps -eo etime,args|grep -w caffeinate|grep -v grep|sed -e 's|^[[:space:]]*||'

on my system, I get following results:

16:39 /bin/bash /Users/schrodinger_cat/Library/Scripts/com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.caffeinate.sh
05:41 /Applications/Alfred 3.app/Contents/Preferences/Alfred Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/Alfred Preferences /Users/schrodinger_cat/Downloads/caffeinate_control.alfredworkflow
00:07 caffeinate -s -t 300

The problem is, this gives false positive results when searching, therefore workflow is always showing that caffeinate is activated and prevents enabling of caffeinate command.

One-off mode changes

Most of the time I want Caffeinate to let my display sleep, but sometimes I want to keep it on. Could you add a parameter to the command to let me specify a one-off mode override?

Also, an option to disable the screen saver would be nice.

Doesn't work on 10.9

Got this error:

[ERROR: alfred.workflow.action.script] Code 0: cat: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Alfred 2/Workflow Data/com.shawn.patrick.rice.caffeinate.control/preferences: No such file or directory

There's no com.shawn.patrick.rice.caffeinate.control/ under Alfred 2/Workflow Data/.

"conf-and-help.scpt" needs tweeking

Great workflow! But there is an issue. The "configuration" dialog refused to display on my system. I traced the problem to file "conf-and-help.scpt" and particularly the following lines:

set the file_ to open for access file path_
try
    set text_ to read the contents of file_
on error errMsg
    set text_ to "d"
end try

close access the file_

Basically, the "open" command was raising an exception on my system, which prevented the "configuration" dialog from displaying. The exception was because the preferences file did not exist yet. I suggest the following change:

try
    set the file_ to open for access file path_
    set text_ to read the contents of file_
    close access the file_
on error errMsg
    set text_ to "d"
end try

A second, but almost insignificant issue is the preferences file path. Currently, the preferences file is saved in "com.caffeinate.control.shawn.patrick.rice", but the workflow bundle ID is "com.shawn.patrick.rice.caffeinate.control". This leads to the creation of two different directories for the same workflow.

Add License

Howdy!

I'm a big fan of this workflow, and as part of some automation I'm looking to add it as a submodule to one of my own repos.

I noticed there's not a license file or note in the repo; would it be possible to add one?

Workflow update for Alfred v4

The workflow does not work on Alfred v4. It is probably just a matter of updating some paths in the library.sh file, but I did not manage to make it work

Caffeinate is not running even after trying to enable multiple times

Please submit to http://www.packal.org/

Looks like the standartized place for workflow searches

Caffeinate always shown as ''active"

Title says it all! Not sure how to fix, running Alfred 4 and this issue was hard to find an answer to. Thanks so much!

Typing 30 1 gives 1hour 30 minutes

If I type 30 1 in the alfred text box I get this

I thought it was supposed to interpret the first number as hours and the second as minutes?

Caffeinate doesn't work on Alfred 4?

When turning caffeinate on the display and CPU still go to sleep. I'm using Alfred 4 so I assume it's to do with the update?