I didnt find it on a previous post, but if its there, and someone can point me to it, it would be great!
So Im milling a piece and its kind of late. Since its been milling for a while, I dont want to pres “pause” and risk it not running in the morning.
So I was wondering, if I press pause, then sleep my computer. Will I be able to press Resume again in the morning and it will continue as if nothing happened, or will I have to completely restart everything if I put my computer to sleep. (Note, Sleep, not shut off. Basically leaving everything as is, just shutting the laptop cover)
Unfortunately no, as it stands you can’t do this. There are a number of people who have talked in here about getting a utility to prevent their Macs from going to sleep in order to allow a job to stay paused and/or running for an extended period of time.
If you’re using a Shapeoko3, you can pause and cut the router off and leave the computer on, but have the screen shut off, and that’s not a problem—come back later, shake your cursor, fire up the router, and resume the job.
The caveat to this is that you have to have clean power AND have the router on a separate circuit (preferably on a surge protector) from the controller, so that it doesn’t trip the controller and cause it to reset when you power it off. Otherwise the surge from the router as it spins down can reset the controller communications with the PC and you’re back to square one anyway.
On my Win7 laptop, if I let the display power down while a gcode is running, the program will complete successfully but when I wake up the display it shows whatever was on the screen when it powered down. Finished job, “37% complete”. I guess the screen buffers are just left in the state they were. I have power handling set to never screensave, never power off the screen, never sleep when plugged in. It’s always plugged in so I also set the same for battery operation just to be safe. I’m a little surprised that Mac laptops need a special utility to do the same.
I may be missing something? On a Mac you can turn sleep mode off, and screensaver to ‘never’. Your computer will sit completely turned on and lit up. I don’t have my nomad yet, so don’t know if this is helpful.
I may be missing something? On a Mac you can turn sleep mode off, and screensaver to ‘never’. Your computer will sit completely turned on and lit up. I don’t have my nomad yet, so don’t know if this is helpful.
I was thinking the same thing! Turn off disk sleep too - even for an SSD.
You can do those things, Caffeine just makes it easier by only having to click one place. So, if you normally want your energy saving settings except in certain situations, you can do that much easier.
I also use Caffeine on my MacBook. It makes for an easy “one click” change in the power settings. I usually leave the power saving settings enabled for my general use, but when running a Nomad job, instead of clicking through all my power settings and modifying them, I just click once to turn power saving off, and then click once to restore them once I’m done with my Nomad. Simple and fast.
I guess the screen buffers are just left in the state they were. I have power handling set to never screensave, never power off the screen, never sleep when plugged in. It’s always plugged in so I also set the same for battery operation just to be safe. I’m a little surprised that Mac laptops need a special utility to do the same.