Wake Screen

[JMichaelTX]

@philxm

I have a step in there to Wake Screen at a particular time. Is that not sufficient?

"Wake Screen" and "Wake Mac" are two entirely different things.
If your Mac is "asleep" in the middle of the night, then you will need to "Wake Mac".
There is no KM Action for that because KM Macros cannot be triggered when the Mac is asleep.

See this thread:

Wake from Sleep as an Action

I use the Energy Saver Systems Preference Schedule item to wake up the computer (in the wee hours) so a scheduled backup will run. If the computer is shut down and/or restarted, that seems to get suppressed. It still shows in the panel but doesn’t actually work (backups didn’t run). I un-check and then re-check the “Start up or wake” item and that seems to get things working again. To avoid having to remember this, one can create an Applescript app (which runs a one-line Bash script) place it i…