Comments on: Keep a MacBook Running While Closed Without Going to Sleep with NoSleep

By: westwoodking

westwoodking — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:04:28 +0000

I’ve started using my old ’07-’08 Black MacBook 2.4 Ghz/2 Gb/250 Gb HD as a DVD player, external 2 Tb harddrive player, and video streamer attachment for my 42′ Samsung. It is great. I have it paired with a wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse. We use Apple TV for Netflix and the like. MacBook works great thoughx. With NoSleep, the MacBook just sits up there full-time like any other component. Thinner than most DVD players, too. It is connected with a mini-VGA to HDMI. Streamed HD video still looks great.

For heat concerns, I’ve hidden/placed two 1×2 stained slats of wood underneath. Stays just as cool as during normal use. When we’re done using it, we just put it to sleep. Hit esc to wake it up!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:02:16 +0000

Great! Thanks. Wondered how I might be able to use teamviewer while lid is closed and no ext keybd and mouse. This works! Thanks!

By: bmd

bmd — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:57:49 +0000

Turn the brightness down to zero. Essentially turns off the screen

By: adamlogan

adamlogan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:51:34 +0000

PS to the paranoid, don’t be ridiculous. Closing the lid is no big deal. I’ve been doing it forever with macbooks and macbook pros via insomniax, never had an issue. I’d say it’s even less of an issue for the newer machines such as the macbook pro I have now (bought this past month in Sept 2012). I don’t even have to turn down the brightness all the way, the backlight just turns off, I love it!

Thank you so much for this, this is exactly what I wanted. I love the fact that there is the option for adding the bin for command line access. I’ll explore that later, but I have what I need for now. Listening to binaural music happily in bed thanks to this.

By: Efjay

Efjay — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:32:39 +0000

Follow up to my last post, I have found further heat damage to my MacBook, the cracks I’ve mentioned have become severe and the plastic hinge is breaking off in small pieces. Also I’ve noticed severe damage to the LCD panel from heat and the machine runs hot constantly. If anyone is thinking they can get away with using a laptop as a server, please, please think again, it may work a while but you will almost certainly wreck the machine with prolonged use. It’s simply not designed to work that way, feel free to try it, but a MacBook is damn expensive machine just to try a server experiment on. Get a machine designed to run as a server. Bearing in mind this machine ran flawlessly before I tried using it as a fileserver, I really wish I’d never bothered, if this info helps to save someones MacBook from being toasted then I’ll be happy.

By: Efjay

Efjay — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:11:08 +0000

It’s no fault of the NoSleep app at all, but my experience of using an old MacBook Pro as a file server hasn’t been great. First a power supply went bang after a month, then by the second to third month, the machine developed cracks around the hinge and began to run ever hotter even when idle. It may be better to use another solution, I’m replacing it with a NAS server.

But the app itself does exactly what it’s supposed to great, I just wouldn’t run a laptop as a server again.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:40:58 +0000

Nice info about pmset. The way I read the manpage, setting a hibernate mode doesn’t affect whether it sleeps or not, but whether it persists memory state to disk when it does so. I think the following should work :

sudo pmset displaysleep 0 disksleep 0 sleep 0 womp 0

pmset -g is also useful to see what your current settings are. Maybe a good way to verify what nosleep or insomniaX are doing.

I installed nosleep last night and set the preferences to not sleep in battery or line power mode; but it still went to sleep after I left for work. Will look at it when I get home, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:08:44 +0000

Sorry, should have been:

Ignore lid close:
sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

Reset to default:
sudo pmset hibernatemode 1

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:06:10 +0000

Does this command line not do the same thing?

Ignore lid close:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Reset to default:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:29:56 +0000

So is InsomniaX or Nosleep the better choice. Any chance of a pros vs Cons

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:58:58 +0000

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I’ve had this utility disabled since install as I don’t want it active all the time. To do this, under System Preferences, I’ve unchecked both options but every time I reboot, the option for “Do not fall asleep when lid is closed” is checked again and the unit is not going to sleep when I close the lid.

So the app seems to be activating itself upon boot despite not being checked prior to do so and in this situation, the icon for the app is not showing in the upper bar to let me know this is happening.

By: iGnome

iGnome — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:08:10 +0000

Ah now I see where I went wrong. I lost the icon because I used a right click on the menu bar icon to quit the app. However I did not have ‘start no sleep utility on system start up’ box checked from within system preferences menu. I suppose ideally there would be the option to launch the app rather than have to check this box and re boot. But I understand that it’s more of a utility than an app and that simplicity is important. So as long as I have no need to quit the utility then I can live with it! Thanks once again to the developer for sharing this and OSX Daily for bringing it to my attention

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By: iGnome

iGnome — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:04:56 +0000

I downloaded this and it was working fine but after a re boot I don’t have the no sleep icon in my menu bar and putting it there is not in the options that I can choose. Any idea how I can get the icon back? It’s really important for me to be able to switch this on and off easily.
Thanks

By: eldee

eldee — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:50:22 +0000

Hi, any chance to get the wallpaper ??