Power Management

Time schedules can include power requests that can start your system up before the action is scheduled to run, or shut it down afterwards.

Power privileges Note

To issue power requests, QRecall must be preauthorized to use administrative privileges. See authorization.

Before Scheduled Time

Actions do not run while the system is asleep or shut down.

The Before scheduled time option will wake or power up the system immediately before the action is scheduled to run. The choices are:

wake wakes up the system if it is sleeping. It does nothing if the system has been shut down.
start up or wake powers on the system if it is shutdown, or wakes the system if it is asleep.

Laptops Note

Laptop computers will not startup, or wake up, if they are closed.

After Running Actions

Setting the After running actions option causes a post-action power request to be queued. Every running action can queue one of the following requests to be performed after it, and all subsequent actions, have finished:

sleep
restart
shutdown

Power request evaluation Details

Pending power requests are evaluated after

all running actions have completed
no other action is scheduled to run in the next 20 minutes

Once all of the actions have run, all pending requests are reviewed and the most significant power request is issued; a shutdown request is more significant that a restart request, which is more significant than a sleep request.

Scheduled actions while asleep Note

QRecall remembers which actions were scheduled to run while the system was shutdown or asleep. Those actions will begin running immediately after the system is restarted (or woken up). An exception to this can be made by adding the Ignore if shutdown condition to the action.