Caffeine

A simple .NET program that keeps your computer awake

Features

• Control using a Tray Icon
• Can play silence, to keep your audio devices from going into stand-by
• Can simulate pressing F15 to prevent screensavers and such

How to use

You can toggle each option by right-clicking the tray icon and selecting the features you want.

By default, no options are enabled, when you add the following arguments, the corresponding features will be enabled:

• k turns on the keyboard feature which presses F15 every 2 seconds
• s will play a silence through the active audio device, preventing some models from going into stand-by.

Running the command caffeine.exe -ks will enable both the keyboard and silence feature; "caffeine.exe -s" will only enable silence.

Planned features

• Pinging a web adress, for phoning home or keeping connections alive
• Error messaging through the windows notifications