CLI Lid Awake On

`ed lid-awake on`

Starts a Lid Awake session and waits until macOS sleep state was changed. start is an alias.

ed lid-awake on [--for <duration> | --until-lid-reopens] [--json]

Option	Type / values	Default	What it does
`--for`	`15m`, `30m`, `1h`, `2h`, or an accepted long spelling	none	Stop automatically after the selected preset.
`--until-lid-reopens`	flag	off	Stop after the lid has closed and then opens again.
`--json`	flag	off	Emit the full resulting state object.

Without a session option the command selects indefinite. Accepted duration spellings are case-insensitive and ignore spaces:

Session	Accepted values
15 minutes	`15m`, `15min`, `15mins`, `15minute`, `15minutes`, `fifteenminutes`
30 minutes	`30m`, `30min`, `30mins`, `30minute`, `30minutes`, `thirtyminutes`
1 hour	`1h`, `60m`, `60min`, `60mins`, `1hour`, `onehour`
2 hours	`2h`, `120m`, `120min`, `120mins`, `2hours`, `twohours`

--for and --until-lid-reopens together are refused with exit 1. An unknown duration also exits 1 and hints use 15m, 30m, 1h or 2h.

ed lid-awake on
ed lid-awake start --for 30min
ed lid-awake on --until-lid-reopens
ed lid-awake on --for 1h --json

The menu bar app must be running, otherwise this exits 4 before posting a request. Starting enables the lidAwake extension when needed, waits as long as 120 seconds for the engine, and exits 0 only after the privileged helper has applied the change. The human answer is the selected session, for example lid awake on: 30 minutes. JSON is the full state object documented by status.

On first use, macOS may require approval for Edith's background helper. The command opens Login Items settings and exits 1 with the approval instruction. Approve the Edith item that affects all users, then run the command again. A missing helper instead asks you to reinstall Edith. There is no password prompt or direct unprivileged fallback.