MacOS – mouse move wakes up sleeping mac.. how to prevent

macossleep-wake

When the cleaning man has been by my desk then my computer wakes up from sleep. How can I make it insensitive to mouse movements?

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If it is a bluetooth mouse you can disable it waking the computer by unchecking

Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer.

in System Preferences - Bluetooth - Advanced

This will also effect the wireless keyboard waking the Mac so you will need to use the power button to wake it.

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The solution I can offer is to use Sleepwatcher and add the following to your ~/.wakeup script:

#!/bin/bash

WR=`syslog | grep -i "Wake reason =" | tail -1 | awk '{ print $11 }'`

if [[ "$WR" =~ EHC[0-9] ]]; then
    pmset sleepnow
fi

This won't prevent your Mac from waking via keyboard or mouse. It will however sleep the computer immediately after it is woken via keyboard, mouse, or any other USB device.

According to an anonymous user this works for some versions of OS X (e.g. Mavericks):

#!/bin/bash

WR=`syslog | grep -i "Wake reason:" | tail -1 | awk '{ print $11 }'`

if [[ "$WR" =~ EHC[0-9] ]]; then
    pmset sleepnow
fi

MacOS – MacBook Pro wakes immediately after sleeping

It appears this has to do with a Bluetooth Device connecting and waking up your computer.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4405043?start=0&tstart=0

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