deleting "power on" using pmset

Thanks, but I think I typed this correctly and it didn't work.

pmset schedule cancel wake “03/24/23 06:00:00”

I don't understand why the date and time are required if you are only allowed a single 'wake' to be scheduled, but I put in the date and time the next 'wake' was scheduled.

Here's the output from terminal:

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % Pmset schedule cancel wake “03/24/23 06:00:00”

Error: Badly formatted date (2)

Error parsing scheduled event.

I think I have "wake" specified as the 'type'. I've also tried "wakeorpoweron", which is the type I see in '-g sched', and get the same error about the date.

From the manual:

type - one of sleep, wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron


I'm sure that will work, and probably the only way to delete the wake power manager, but I didn't want to delete all the other power events that run at night.

Here are all my power events:

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:

wakepoweron at 6:00AM every day

sleep at 10:00PM every day

Scheduled power events:

[0] wake at 03/23/2023 21:05:00 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.donotdisturb.server.ScheduleLifetimeMonitor.timer' User visible: true

[1] wake at 03/24/2023 00:04:40 by 'com.bombich.ccchelper'

[2] wake at 03/24/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[3] wake at 03/24/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[4] wake at 03/24/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[5] wake at 03/24/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[6] wake at 03/24/2023 12:25:08 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.acmd.alarm'

Thanks very much for your help. It seems that Apple didn't do well by deleting the ability to set up sleep and wake in Energy Savings.

I worked up my courage and tried cancelall.

No errors were displayed:

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % sudo pmset schedule cancelall

Then I tried to confirm that no events at all were scheduled. The power events remained, but the events for Carbon Copy Cloner and iDrive disappeared, which is exactly the opposite of what I originally wanted to do. Nuts.

Also, "schedule" wasn't valid, but "sched" was, which is not what I read in the manual. I'll study the 'man' again.

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % sudo pmset -g schedule

Error: unhandled argument schedule

Usage: pmset <options>

See pmset(1) for details: 'man pmset'

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % sudo pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:

wakepoweron at 6:00AM every day

sleep at 10:00PM every day

I did open CCC and iDrive, and they indicate that the schedules remain intact. I'll confirm that they actually run as scheduled.

Thank you. I don't have an issue with disabling Sleep, but with disabling Wake. I don't think I understand your post.

I think I have done everything correctly, but nothing I can think of to try helps. So, I don't think you or anyone else can help other than Apple. I thought for sure that 'cancelall' would do the trick, but it didn't.

I have confirmed that Carbon Copy Cloner scheduled events still take place, even though they no longer show up after executing sudo pmset -g sched, so at least that went well. Maybe cancelall no longer works at all.

I certainly do appreciate your attempts to help, and want to thank you again.

Thanks, I get it now. Actually, I would be happy disabling Sleep (and Wake) from the System settings screen and doing away with Terminal/schedules/wakes&sleeps altogether, but you can no longer do that from System Settings / Energy Saver in Ventura. Those options have been removed, which was why I was forced to try Terminal commands. Recent online articles had explained how to add Wake and Sleep times using Terminal, but did not mention how to delete them. Probably because you can't.

So, I'm half-happy. I guess I could tell the computer to Wake, just before it goes to Sleep.

Cheers!

I think I have the best answer now. You have to use Terminal to define new Sleep and/or Wake schedules, but, when done, the old ones are deleted. I specified a new (actually the same) Sleep schedule, and the old Wake schedule was deleted.

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Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % Sudo pmset repeat sleep MTWRFSU 22:00:00

Password:

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ % sudo pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:

sleep at 10:00PM every day

Scheduled power events:

[0] wake at 03/26/2023 15:51:19 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.CalendarNotification.EKTravelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer'

[1] wake at 03/26/2023 21:05:00 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.donotdisturb.server.ScheduleLifetimeMonitor.timer' User visible: true

[2] wake at 03/27/2023 00:04:40 by 'com.bombich.ccchelper'

[3] wake at 03/27/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[4] wake at 03/27/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[5] wake at 03/27/2023 03:34:47 by 'IDriveDaemon'

[6] wake at 03/27/2023 13:04:40 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.acmd.alarm'

Swans@Swans-2019-iMac ~ %

I now see my error when using -g. Per the manual:

-g sched displays scheduled startup/wake and shutdown/sleep events.

So schedule does not work for an option using -g, but sched does.