LG38WK95-C monitor randomly waking up from standby with MacBook Pro M1 Pro > USB-C

[AirpodsNow]

Hi there,

I got a new LG 38" monitor for a month now, but somehow it keeps waking up the monitor for a few seconds every now and then. It's in the same room as where I sleep so it is rather noticeable during the night. I tried to find a way around it and found out it's rather common for some monitors when only connecting to USB-C (my previous Dell 27" didn't had this issue). The solution proposed was as follows:

• Settings > General > Airdrop & Handoff, Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices: Disabled (this was causing sleep locks from sharingd)
• Settings > Displays > Options, Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off: Disabled
• Settings > Battery > Options, Wake for network access: Never
• sudo pmset -a disablesleep 0
• sudo pmset -a powernap 0
• sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0 (note: this apparently breaks 'find my' for this device)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/10jr68z/_/jbckzni

I did the first three and didn't do the sudo commands since I am not sure if that screws up anything else. Does anyone here can advise or clarify what these commands do? I prefer just using the Mac is it comes in its defaults state or only change things in the GUI/settings menu. Because I would forget about those and perhaps causes other issues along the way. Or... if people have other solutions to this rather annoying wake up issue.

thanks.

 

[DarkPremiumCho]

On the contrary, my setup with a Dell monitor has this problem. Haven't got myself an LG monitor though.

pmset -a: change power management settings, apply the setting to all scenarios (battery/AC Power/UPS)

displaysleep: display sleep timer. The numeric value is "minutes", 0 means disable.
powernap: not relevant on an Apple silicon machine.
tcpkeepalive: not found in Apple's manual (Ventura 13.6.4), appears to be deprecated