User

17.10.2007 17:43:22

First off Remote Buddy is great as is. You're doing a wonderful job. 
One feature that I'd like to see is a feature in the system menu to make the display sleep now, but leaves the system running. A lot of times I watch sling player at night with processes running and want to leave my Mac on but shut the display down until the morning. Something simple that set the display sleep value to 1 minute, waited 70 seconds and then resets it to it's previous value or a user defined value should be pretty simple to cook up, I just can't figure out how to add it to the system menu. 
Hope you find this helpful, 
-Deepak 

User

19.10.2007 23:00:02

Thanks for your suggestion.

There's a "hack" that uses pmset to immediately sends your displays to 
sleep for dashboard and as a seperate app:

http://linestreet.googlepages.com/home

You can simply the app version of it to the Remote Buddy menu by 
dragging it into a place of your choice in the menu.

I chose to say "hack", because I've read a few comments here and there 
that it would not work as expected on *some* machines, effectively 
keeping the displays from waking up again until the next reboot. 
Remote Buddy has no direct support for display sleep for the same 
reason. However, the tool worked nicely the last time I tested it.

Best regards, 
Felix 

User

04.11.2008 20:28:21

I would also like to request a Display Sleep feature. Perhaps Remote Buddy could emulate a shift-control-eject keypress? 

User

06.11.2008 21:45:17

Thanks for asking.

I'm not aware of any working userspace API under Leopard that allows 
the emulation of an eject keypress. That doesn't make it impossible, 
but a lot more complex.

Best regards, 
Felix Schwarz 

User

19.12.2008 09:44:07

Hi.

I use Tiger and I use a application that (in a combination with Remote Buddy) does exactly what you ask for.

It is called Light me! 
http://www.malcom-mac.com/blog/lightme/

It sits in system preferences and it essentially let's you configure a keyboard shortcut which will let your display go to sleep. The default is ⌘ F3.

I made an action for Remote Buddy that emulates the keystroke presses (⌘ F3) so the app will work. 
Then gave it an appropriate name and placed the action in my main Remote Buddy menu. 
I also wanted to place it under system but that doesn't work because it is a smart folder and can not be altered.

They have a Leopard version of Light Me! so I suggest you check it out. 
Works pretty well.

Ben

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User

19.12.2008 11:04:32

This is how I made it work with Light Me! 
I assume that one has made his/her own menu profile in Remote Buddy. 
And that the default keystroke in Light Me! for display sleep is ⌘F3.

To make the action...

Open the Behavior Construction Kit. 
Click on Action Factory. 
Press the plus button in the lower left corner to create a new action.

Click on Metadata. 
Enter the name of your menu profile in the "Belongs to group" field. 
Enter action name (Display Sleep) in the "Title" field. 
Tick the box: "Action globally available." 
Tick the box: "Close Remote Buddy menu on action execution."

Click on Implementation 
Click "+" and choose keystroke. 
Enter F3 in the "Keystroke" field. 
Tick the box: "⌘" (the option symbol) 
Under Operation choose: "Single key press between button press & release."

Open Up Remote Buddy Preferences. 
Click on Menu at the top. 
Click on your menu profile. 
Click on the "Show and hide the item palette" button. 
(lower left corner, 4th button from the left.) 
Expand "actions." 
Expand "miscellaneous." 
There you see the action you just created. 
Drag the action to the menu layout. 
Double click the action to get rid of the name at the end.

Done!

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