Suggestions, plz, for computer-driven power switches for its peripherals
- From: LeftCoast_Dave <LeftCoast_Dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:36:05 -0700
Hi,
A search-engine scan of the web for "xxx switches", where "xxx" has been several different modifiers, yields me seas of hits, but a lot of slogging through them hasn't yielded what I seek.
I would like to be able to power up/down my printers, speakers, scanner, external drives, and monitor from my computer.
-- Some of these, such as the speakers, printers, and scanner, I don't normally need on; I am aware that there are programmable relays, though what I'm finding seems expensive, and too restrictive as regards the OS.
-- The monitor and external drives need to be on early enough in booting up to be useful, and in the case of the drives, recognized (they are eSATA) in time.
-- My computer has several OS's, so I would want to be able to control the switch(es) with a cross-platform language; Python would be my first choice, or I could wing it fairly well with C. What I *don't* want is the language to be Visual Basic (as I discovered with one company), because of the cross-platform desideratum.
Can you /please/ point me to particular products, "switch-focused" forums, books and/or sites to help me wade through the mess?
Many, many thanks in advance.
Regards,
DaveB
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Prev by Date: Re: Problem installing Radeon 9250 AGP 4X 128MB
- Next by Date: Re: Suggestions, plz, for computer-driven power switches for its peripherals
- Previous by thread: TEAC 224E boot disk problem
- Next by thread: Re: Suggestions, plz, for computer-driven power switches for its peripherals
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
Loading
