Permissions

Power Manager itself does not require any additional permissions but macOS may prompt you for other permissions; these are consequential but optional.

Permissions are often associated with the launching process. If Power Manager runs a tool or script that requires specific permissions, macOS will associate Power Manager with those requirements.

Full Disk Access

Power Manager does not require Full Disk Access.

Full Disk Access may be needed by scripts and tools that are launched as part of an action.

System Settings.app > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access

Local Network Access

When Remote Management is enabled, Power Manager uses Bonjour/ZeroConf to announce its presense on the local network. Since macOS 15, Bonjour requires Local Network Access:

System Settings.app > Privacy & Security > Local Network

If Power Manager does not have Local Network Access, the scheduler will not be discoverable on the local network and the application will not show any Services in the Remote Viewer.

Microphone Access

Power Manager includes triggers and actions that can mute and adjust the volume of input and output audio devices. This can require Microphone Access.

System Settings.app > Privacy & Security > Microphone

Power Manager never uses the microphone.

If an action causes sound to play, macOS may ask for Access to the Microphone. The following script causes this behaviour on macOS 15.1:

#!/bin/sh
say "Hello world."