Is it possible to do this on the Mac?

[lsquare]

My desk is about two meters from my bed. Before I go to bed, I open a bunch of windows and a email client on my dual monitor set up. This way the minute I wake up, I can immediately go to my desk, move the mouse to activate the screen and then have all of the information available to me.

Being the lazy guy that I am (especially in the morning), is there a way I can get the screens to turn on while still lying in bed? My vision is good enough where I can see the text while I'm about two meters away. I rather not have both LCDs turned on for the entire night as it waste a lot of electricity. I rather let the screens turn off after a period of inactivity and then somehow trigger the LCDs to turn on while in bed. Any suggestions on how to do this?

 

[MongGrel]

Get a wireless trackball ?

You could just wake up and move your thumb slightly

Teasing a little bit, but haven't used a mouse on my main rig for decades i guess.

I have always thought my thumb was simpler than sliding something around on a desk.

 

[lsquare]

Get a wireless trackball ?

You could just wake up and move your thumb slightly

Teasing a little bit, but haven't used a mouse on my main rig for decades i guess.

I have always thought my thumb was simpler than sliding something around on a desk.

Is there like some sort of remote or something I can trigger with my iPod Touch?

 

[TheStu]

What Mac do you have? It may have an IR receiver.

The app Screens on iOS may work.

 

[Rakehellion]

Is there like some sort of remote or something I can trigger with my iPod Touch?

Get a VNC app for you iPhone and you can control your computer.

Go to System Preferences on your Mac and enable Screen Sharing or Remote Management (I don't remember which) and you can use your iPod as a mouse.

 

[Childs]

You can use pmset if you know you want to wake at a specific time. From the man page:

Schedules the system to automatically wake from sleep on July 4, 20016, at 8PM.

pmset schedule wake "07/04/16 20:00:00"

For testing, you can force the displays to go to sleep like so:

pmset displaysleepnow