System Unexpectedly Waking Up in the Middle of the Night

I use the same macros on several systems. I have a sleep macro. Yet, on my iMac, system wakes up in the middle of the night for an unknown reason. Any ideas why? Here's initial portion of the log which goes on for hours:

2021-01-14 20:19:53 Execute macro “Sleep” from trigger The Hot Key ⌃⇧S is pressed
2021-01-15 00:29:20 Execute macro “Wake” from trigger At System Wake
2021-01-15 02:30:33 Execute macro “Wake” from trigger At System Wake
2021-01-15 02:30:33 GetProcessForPID(43336) failed with -600 for <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>, using cached version
2021-01-15 02:30:33 SetFrontProcessWithOptions(0) failed with -600 for <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>
2021-01-15 02:30:33 Switch failed for System Preferences <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>
2021-01-15 02:30:33 GetProcessForPID(43336) failed with -600 for <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>, using cached version
2021-01-15 02:30:33 SetFrontProcessWithOptions(0) failed with -600 for <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>
2021-01-15 02:30:33 Switch failed for System Preferences <KBMRunningApplication “System Preferences” <0x6000013fb2a0> pid=43336 bid=com.apple.systempreferences abhT>
2021-01-15 02:30:40 Action timeout exceeded.. Macro “Wake” cancelled (while executing Activate System Preferences).

Hey Ike,

Best guess?

-Chris


Yes, I thought of that. Deselected it the other day. Didn’t help. But I didn’t reboot after that. Maybe I’ll try that.

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I fiddled around a lot around this problem, and made sure that I quit many things, and disabled all macros on timers, and the problem seems now to have gone away. I wish I could pin down precisely what it was I did, but, well, you know. Sometimes you can't.

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