M1 Macbook goes to sleep while tethered and loses connection with camera
Title says it all really.
While tethering my Nikon D800 on MacBook M1 running Ventura 13.5.2 and during photoshoot, CO23 (16.2.4.34) is incapable of preventing the display from turning off
I assume the system THINKS its inactive and honors the macos settings for Lock Screen.
When waking up the display by touching the trackpad, CO23 loses connection with the camera. Subsequent images taken are never transferred to the library unless i manually disconnect and reconnect the camera
Using tether tools cable, the official small dock from Apple (for USB > USB-C) and Macbook is on battery power
This happens when macbook is plugged-in on mains albeit it takes longer for the screen to lock due to the macos settings that dictate that when on power, screen turns off after 10 minutes
Is there a setting to set in CO to force macbook to stay awake while taking photos from the camera??
EDIT
Similar issue as this one: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/7155177737117-Capture-One-22-tether-issues-Canon-5DMk4
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There is a work-around in MacOS.
- System Settings>Lock Screen>Turn display off on power adapter when inactive (3rd one down). Set it to never (or some adequately long interval).
- ---You'll also have to change the setting Turn display off on battery when inactive if you are shooting tethered and unplugged.
- System Settings>Battery>Options>Put hard disks to sleep when possible. Set to Never.
I agree this isn't as elegant as having Capture One override the sleep setting but it does seem to solve the disconnect issue.
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I use Lungo for this - tiny app that sits in your menu bar and allows you to prevent sleep for 30 mins, an hour, indefinitely, etc.
It's my go to for tethered shooting.
Search the app store - it's in there (or hit the direct app store link at https://sindresorhus.com/lungo)0
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