Comments on: Launch Daemon hack

By: ivanxx

ivanxx — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:19:24 +0000

Hi!
Just a comment for White’s wakee app. I think there’s a frightening problem with this app… It will switch the iPhone ON at the scheduled time! (well, this is the expected behavior, but if you happen to be on a taking off or landing plane…)

Is it possible to insert only a wake label in /var/preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
instead of inserting the wakepoweron?

Also, if you could accept a second parameter for a filename to be executed, perhaps all the wakeup then tweet issue would be solved?

Cheers!

By: igienger

igienger — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:49:20 +0000

Heya. Just wanted to say I’ve found whitee’s approach (I’m assuming he did the same thing as me) successful. I’m using the same calls MobileMail uses to wake up the phone periodically.

Thanks to your program, I’ve been able to set up a nice visual timeline / map interface to view where I’ve been during the day (which, for today, is sadly only this apartment =P)

http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~igienger/whereisian/history.html

By: danvuquoc

danvuquoc — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:41:41 +0000

Hey white, I’ve got a question about your wakee, how are you using it? I’ve got a small script where I run

“wakee 14″ to wake up in 14 minutes…
then I immediately wakeup wifi,
sleep for 10 seconds,
call the LocateMe function as POST vars to a url of my specification…

All of this is repeated every 15 minutes via launchctl.

Should this be the correct approach?

By: z0t

z0t — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:47:09 +0000

Im sure ramonk was paying attention, I believe he was asking how it works. As for an explanation please see:

http://iphonedevdocs.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1493&postcount=9

Im sure that is how white’s “wakee” program does it.

By: white

white — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:05:34 +0000

ramonk: as for com.apple.AutoWake.plist it’s auto generated one. It reflects the actual wake up schedule. You can use my wakee program and you’ll see that the com.apple.AutoWake.plist changes as well.

By: white

white — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:59:02 +0000

ramonk: pay more attention to comments on this site. Everything is explained. See my little wakee program above. It does the same what MobileMail.app for waking up. cron goes sleeping as well as all other programs. Well, my iPhone does not have any com.apple.AutoWake.plist files. If you have one, please, share and we’ll find out.

By: ramonk

ramonk — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:52:13 +0000

white / others–

Question (or actually 3)

– How does MobileMail.app wake up on its own? Is this method something we can copy?

– there must be some kind of wakeup daemon. See for example /var/preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
This file is auto-generated by something, and it contains (for me) the next time a calendar reminder is set. I have no clue how to add something to this (I’m a bad programmer to start and have no experience with OSX), and the Calendar Reminder wake-ups may be too much. We don’t want the backlight to come on every xx minutes… Also, they look like one time reminders.

– cron. I see there is a crond running, although I can’t see any cron jobs listed in /var/cron/tabs/root
Will cron get suspended while the system is asleep? Could we schedule something through cron rather than using the LaunchDaemon? Or am I looking at this too simplistic now?

Thanks, and THANKS ERICA for the cool util.

–Ramon

ps — what am I doing with it? I am experimenting to turn my iPhone into a Ham Radio APRS tracker, that Curls my location straight into the APRS Findu database. The purpose is to build some kind of a tracker.

Note that the submit API to the database is restricted to registered HAM Radio operators only. See the results at http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?kx1t

By: white

white — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:40:25 +0000

I’ve created the simple command line tool which takes number of minutes as command argument and makes phone awake at the set time.

You can download it here http://rapidshare.com/files/97834383/wakee.html

I can also give you source on request, but it’s extremely simple. Now you don’t have to depend on MobileMail.app mail checker

Feel free to drop me a note to w at qwe3 dot com

By: shaiss

shaiss — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:36:03 +0000

emailed you white and boomersmech

By: shaiss

shaiss — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:17:38 +0000

white , could you please email me at shaiss at] gmail dot{ com?

I’m working on the server side portion of tracking so we don’t need to use tweet.

The iphone scripting is a bit above my head. Email me if your interested and lets get things moving!!!

-shai