Cannot set on/off times for Mini M2 computer

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Cannot set on/off times for Mini M2 computer

Hello,

I have tried unsuccessfully to program my Mini M2 to turn on at 7 am and turn off at 11 pm daily.

I have cut & pasted the Terminal commands from Apple. No go. Then I have typed them in carefully manually. No go. I have then erased those commands and started over. Now. whenever I try to erase te old unsuccessful commands, and put the new ones in, I get this Terminal response:

~ % sudo pmset repeat cancel

Password: xxxx

pmset: Error 0xe00002bc cancelling repeating events

I have a call into Apple Help, but missed their earlier call-back.

Is there any way to wipe all this old Terminal programming out and have a clean slate?

Thanks,

William in Australia

Mac mini, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 22, 2024 10:29 PM

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Answer 1

TheLittles

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Aug 22, 2024 10:49 PM in response to BillyiPad2021

BillyiPad2021 Said:

"Cannot set on/off times for Mini M2 computer: Hello, I have tried unsuccessfully to program my Mini M2 to turn on at 7 am and turn off at 11 pm daily. I have cut & pasted the Terminal commands from Apple. No go. Then I have typed them in carefully manually. No go. I have then erased those commands and started over. Now. whenever I try to erase te old unsuccessful commands, and put the new ones in, I get this Terminal response:[...]"

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Nothing was installed. All that would have been made is a change to your system. But, there was an error in doing so.

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Answer 2

Aug 22, 2024 10:54 PM in response to TheLittles

Thank you for the clarification. Does this mean that the earlier attempts at installing the on/off commands were not accepted? If so, I should add that an Apple Helppeson with screen sharing watched me try to install the commands afresh, which they agreed I did perfectly, and the same error message was received.

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Answer 3

TheLittles

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Aug 22, 2024 11:20 PM in response to BillyiPad2021

BillyiPad2021 Said:

"Thank you for the clarification."

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You are welcome.

Q1. "Does this mean that the earlier attempts at installing the on/off commands were not accepted?"

A1. "Yes. They were not accepted."

Q2. "If so, I should add that an Apple Helppeson with screen sharing watched me try to install the commands afresh, which they agreed I did perfectly, and the same error message was received"

A2. It reads: "pmset: Error 0xe00002bc cancelling repeating events". So, it never went through. Seems it was troubleshot, but was unsuccessful.

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Answer 4

Aug 22, 2024 11:27 PM in response to TheLittles

Hello, and thanks again. I have asked what on/off schedule

exists, if any, in my Terminal using your coding and it replied:

% pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:

wake at 7:00AM every day

BUT the computer does NOT and never has turned itself on ever.

Very frustrating.

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Answer 5

Aug 23, 2024 12:47 AM in response to BillyiPad2021

Thank you for the suggestion. I turn the Mini on every morning and shut it down every night manually. The Mini never turns on by itself at 7 am or at any other time. I did not command the Terminal to start up at 7 am daily recently. This was a command I put in months ago and the machine never did so. Yesterday I had Apple Help screen-sharing with me for about 90 minutes, and I commanded it to start at 7 am and turn off at 11 pm, and just got error messages. The lady from Apple Help said that I had entered all the commands correctly. She escalated the problem but I missed the phone call today to speak to someone as a follow-up. I then tried Apple Communities instead. All I can do now is wait until 7 am tomorrow to see if the Mini somehow surprises me and turns itself on, but I am 99.99% sure it shall not do so. If it does not I will place another call to Apple Help and hope to get someone back on the case who has a better technical grounding.

I just wish that Apple had not removed for some inexplicable reason the simple and fool-proof scheduling option that was in previous O/S inside the Power Saving area, where you could enter the start-up and shut-down times and choose which days you wanted it to happen, bingo.

Thanks again

Willliam

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