Schedule Assistant
Power Manager includes Schedule Assistant. Selecting Add, to create a new event, opens the assistant.
Schedule Assistant provides an easy way to create events and build an energy saving schedule. The assistant works in a step by step approach. Each step asks a few questions before moving onto the next. At any time, you can move back to change previous settings or dimiss Schedule Assistant entirely.
Below is a list of the tasks that Schedule Assistant can help automate.
Complete Schedules
- Home Schedule
Create a schedule suitable for a home based Mac: powering on and off around school hours in the week, and for extended hours during the weekend.
- Museum Schedule
Create a schedule suitable for a Mac used in a museum, installation, or exhibit: powering on and off around opening hours.
- Office Schedule
Create a schedule suitable for an office based Mac: powering on and off around business hours in the week, and powered off over the weekend.
- School Laboratory Schedule
Create a schedule suitable for a school laboratory based Mac: powering on and off around laboratory opening hours, and automatically logging out inactive users.
- School Teaching Laboratory Schedule
Create a schedule suitable for a Mac in a school laboratory used for teaching: powering on and off around laboratory opening hours, and automatically preparing the Mac ready for the beginning of each class.
On-Demand
Open Events
- Open document
- Open document after inactivity
- Open document daily
- Open document on log in
- Open document on-demand
- Open document with application
- Open document with application after inactivity
- Open document with application daily
- Open document with application during a user session
- Open document with application on log in
- Open document with application on-demand
Power Events
Power Source Events
- Launch an application on battery remaining
- Launch an application on switch to battery
- Launch an application on switch to mains power
- Power down on battery remaining
- Run a Shortcuts shortcut on battery remaining
- Run a script on battery remaining
- Run a script on switch to battery
- Run a script on switch to mains power
- Run an Automator workflow on battery remaining
Presentation Events
- Play a Keynote presentation
- Play a Keynote presentation daily
- Play a PowerPoint presentation
- Play a PowerPoint presentation daily
- Play a movie
- Play a movie daily
- Stop a Keynote presentation
- Stop a Keynote presentation daily
- Stop a PowerPoint presentation
- Stop a PowerPoint presentation daily
- Stop a movie
- Stop a movie daily
User Events
- Execute a Shortcuts shortcut during a user session
- Execute a command line tool during a user session
- Launch an application during a user session
- Launch an application on log in
- Limit maximum volume
- Limit maximum volume periodically
- Log out during a user session
- Mirror files on log in
- Mirror files on log out
- Run a Shortcuts shortcut on log in
- Run a script during a user session
- Run a script on log in
- Run a script on log out
- Run an Automator workflow on log in
- Set volume at log in
- Set volume at log out
- User event
- User event after inactivity
- User event daily
Workflow Events
- Execute a command line tool
- Execute a command line tool daily
- Launch an application
- Launch an application after inactivity
- Launch an application daily
- Mirror files
- Mirror files after inactivity
- Mirror files daily
- Run a Shortcuts shortcut
- Run a Shortcuts shortcut after inactivity
- Run a Shortcuts shortcut daily
- Run a script
- Run a script after inactivity
- Run a script daily
- Run an Automator workflow
- Run an Automator workflow after inactivity
- Run an Automator workflow daily
Event Editor
Looking for a task not included in Schedule Assistant? Power Manager includes an event editor. Use the editor to create, customise, and extend your events.