Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop
Date	2023-11-21 05:10 +0100
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On Mon 20 Nov 2023 at 08:24:11 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
[ … ]
> inspired an "apt-cache search wake from" search for some reason.
> 
> That highly generic query only received 10 results for Trixie. Maybe
> there's still something in there that's useful. Two of those results,
> etherwake and nvram-wakeup, look interesting. Since they already exist
> as packages, they must be being used somewhere... which might help
> short track figuring out how to apply them to one's own computing
> needs.

etherwake looks like a slightly more functional package than
wakeonlan, which turns on a computer by addressing its MAC.
My Dell desktops all have that facility, which I use regularly.
You configure it in the BIOS, where the setting sits alongside
the time-triggered configuration.

I used to use time-triggered on one of them, but now that I encrypt
/home, it's not so useful just to boot up at a given time each day.

I assume that nvram-wakeup allows you to choose or change a wakeup
time while the machine is still running. Without it, you'd need
to reboot into the BIOS to set the time, and then switch off.

Unfortunately I've not seen these facilities in any laptop I've used.

Cheers,
David.

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Systemd timer and sleeping laptop Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2023-11-20 13:10 +0100
  Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-20 13:30 +0100
    Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2023-11-20 14:10 +0100
    Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-11-20 14:50 +0100
      Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-11-20 15:10 +0100
      Re: Systemd timer and sleeping laptop David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-11-21 05:10 +0100

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