When you have your own 24/7 server, it would be a pitty not to consider saving power as much as possible..
when it become so simple with today’s equipments !
I am thinking to controled power supply with nice and affordable USB controled plug like this one
Of course home appliance with x25, zwave or other RF based control could be choosed, but I did prefered wired solution this time.
http://www.aviosys.com/8800.html
I did purchase mine at:
http://mafianumerique.com/product_info.php?products_id=1800&language=fr
Linux control utility and links:
http://code.google.com/p/usbnetpower8800/source/checkout
http://www.libusb.org/wiki/libusb-1.0
https://github.com/walac/pyusb
Test under ubuntu 10.04 TLS
| $ sudo apt-get remove python-usb $ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusb/files/PyUSB%201.0/1.0.0-alpha-2/pyusb-1.0.0a2.tar.gz $ tar xvf pyusb-1.0.0a2.tar.gz $ cd pyusb-1.0.0a2.tar.gz $ sudo python setup.py install $ sudo python ./usbnetpower8800.py on |
Windows control utility and links :
Libusb is required from above link
http://www.craftedge.com/products/libusb.html
Then python script from code google will do the job
http://code.google.com/p/usbnetpower8800/source/checkout
| C:\Python27\python.exe c:\usbnetpower\usbnetpower8800.py on |
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