Display turns on during sleep

I have enabled Power Nap in energy saver preferences. When the system is in sleep mode the display randomly turns on then goes back to sleep mode. Is the display supposed to come on when there is activity such as a TM backup or network activity? I have only been having this issue since High Sierra.

I have a late 2014 mac mini running OSX 10.15.6. The Energy Saver preferences have Put Hard Disks to Sleep, Wake for Network, Start up Automatically after power failure, and Enable Power Nap all set.

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john

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 10:00 AM

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den.thed

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Posted on Sep 20, 2020 11:08 AM

Uncheck Power Nap and test.

I use these settings with all of my Mac Mini's.

Computer Sleep to Never. (that way it only sleeps when I tell it to)

Display Sleep to 10min. (only the display sleeps if I get called away or distracted)

Put hard disks to sleep unchecked. (then my disks are up and ready when it's wakes from sleep)

Wake For Network access unchecked. (I do not have or use any services that require this access)

Start up automatically after a power failure unchecked. (I do not want it to restart during intermittent power issues)

Enable Power Nap unchecked. (I do not need or want my Mac Mini doing or checking those services unsupervised)

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