alfred-caffeinate

Prevent macOS from Sleeping

deps

1. Install Alfred.

2. Ensure caffeinate is in your $PATH, by running:

    $ which caffeinate
    /usr/bin/caffeinate
   

setup and configuration

1. Import the Alfred alfred-caffeinate workflow by double-clicking the workflow file after downloading it.

2. The default caffeination time is 1 hour (3600 seconds), but feel free to change this in in alfred-caffeinate.sh at line 4.

    # default caffeination time in seconds
    default_caffeination=3600
   

usage

In Alfred type the following:

To caffeinate (default time of 1 hour):

    caffeine

To caffeinate 8 hours:

    caffeine 8

To resume normal sleep behavior:

    caffeine off

thanks

Many thanks to the stack overflow community for lots of shell scripting help!

screenshots of alfred and notifications