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Preventing Sleep on Windows
The excavator process prevents Windows from sleeping. While this makes a lot of sense while mining, it might not make sense while excavator is just idling.
It might make sense to allow for a toggle of this behavior through commands, that way a user can choose if they want to prevent the computer from sleeping while not mining.
NiceHash Quick Miner will respawn the process even if I killed it. Regardless of that though, I would like to be able to start and stop mining from NiceHash API for as long as the computer isn’t sleeping.
Any chance we can get this behavior/feature?
I'm controlling my Excavator to only run at off-peak times to increase power cost efficiency, but since Excavator will idle in the background even while not mining it will prevent my computer from sleeping/hibernating, driving up my power consumption again.
Do you have fixed off-peak times ? I schedule my computer to sleep every 2 hour for 5 minutes using Windows Scheduler+PSTool to go to sleep and WakeupOnStandby to wake the computer. No matter what the excavator doing, my computer will go to sleep and wake up at that scheduled time.
I have a similar problem, where I start/stop mining through the NiceHash API and when not mining I would like the computer to be able to go to sleep or I'll have the computer on for no reason. Btw. I use Wake-On-Lan to bring the computer out of sleep when the command to start mining is sent.
