Low power mode workflow

[Rohit]

macOS Monterey is here and under battery there is a new feature known as low power mode.
does anyone have a workflow to turn on and off via alfred??

i use this feature a lot and it would be really helpful for me to use this via alfred quickly.

please🙏

[skynet01]

One more vote for this  
There is probably a way to do this using the new Shortcuts feature 

[Rohit]

@skynet01 Please let me know if you are able to do this 🙏.

[skynet01]

There is a shortcut for this On Reddit : 

Looks like it just uses simple terminal commands:

 

Get current state: 

sudo pmset -g | grep lowpowermode

 

to turn it on

sudo pmset -a lowpowermode 1

and off

sudo pmset -a lowpowermode 0

so implementation into workflow should be easy I just never made one.

Edited November 4, 2021 by skynet01

[Rohit]

@skynet01Thank you ...it is working...however how do i implement this with alfred??...i'm sorry i new to this workflows....could you please share if you have made this workflow?? 🙏

[deanishe]

6 hours ago, skynet01 said:

so implementation into workflow should be easy I just never made one.

 

Probably not so straightforward because it uses sudo, which means you have to enter your password to run the command.

 

The simple solution is to use AppleScript’s do shell script "..." with administrator privileges, which will pop up the standard macOS “Enter your password” dialog. (Every time )

 

The better, but slightly more complex way is to edit the sudoers file to allow your user account to execute those commands without entering your password (though you still need to use sudo).

 

You might, for example, put skynet ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pmset in /etc/sudoers.d/pmset to allow user skynet to run pmset without entering their password (you still have to use sudo; it just won’t ask for a password).

 

(Don’t edit any sudoers files by hand! Always use visudo, which guarantees the syntax is correct. Otherwise, if you screw it up, you might no longer be able to get the administrator privileges you need to fix it.)

[skynet01]

Thanks for the heads up @deanishe I didnt think about the sudo part in the workflow, hope there is still a way to build it. I assumed because Alfred has scripting permissions it would also apply to this workflow. What about having Alfred run the above shortcuts? 

 

btw I added pmset file with 

skynet ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pmset

(skynet is my actual username

 into /etc/sudoers.d/ using visudo like you suggested, but I still get "'pmset' must be run as root..." when I try to run pmset, do I need to do something else? 

 

 

 

Edited November 7, 2021 by skynet01

[deanishe]

7 hours ago, skynet01 said:

when I try to run pmset, do I need to do something else?

 

You still have to use sudo, i.e. run sudo pmset, not just pmset.

[skynet01]

Ah yes, its working now @deanishe .

Btw @Rohit 

I was able to get this all to work with Shortcuts workflow that I found here:

https://github.com/lukdiekm/alfred-shortcuts/releases/tag/v0.3.1

Then you can just run the low power mode shortcuts using Alfred 

 

[Rohit]

@skynet01 Thank You:🙏 

[vitor]

Heads-up, made a Workflow which doesn’t require authentication to change Low Power Mode settings. It does it by automating the Systems Preferences pane.