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Swifty
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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: Controlling USB2 port power? |
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Does anyone know of an application that controls power to individual
USB2 ports? (It's part of the USB2 specification, but not widely
implemented)
Possible glitches:
1. My device doesn't use USB, just the power, so isn't a known device
2. My USB2 hardware may not support the power specification.
Why? So I can turn off my USB LED Christmas tree before going to bed. :-)
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Leonard Grey
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Controlling USB2 port power? |
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How about unplugging the USB cable?
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est
Swifty wrote:
| Quote: | Does anyone know of an application that controls power to individual
USB2 ports? (It's part of the USB2 specification, but not widely
implemented)
Possible glitches:
1. My device doesn't use USB, just the power, so isn't a known device
2. My USB2 hardware may not support the power specification.
Why? So I can turn off my USB LED Christmas tree before going to bed. 
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Swifty
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Controlling USB2 port power? |
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Leonard Grey wrote:
| Quote: | How about unplugging the USB cable?
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It will wear out the plug and socket. Anyway, it's plugged in round the
back of my PC and I'm:
1. To lazy to go there
2. Allergic to the dust round there
3. Afraid of the spider that lives nearby
4. Geeky enough to want to do it with my mouse, or even better, voice
recognition: "Tree, Off!"
Of course, another alternative would be a "proper" USB Christmas tree,
with drivers to control what it does. Like the mini aquarium that I have
plugged into the adjacent socket. What uses have other folks found for
these USB sockets? :-)
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Steve Swift
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Gerald Ross
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Controlling USB2 port power? |
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Swifty wrote:
| Quote: | Leonard Grey wrote:
How about unplugging the USB cable?
It will wear out the plug and socket. Anyway, it's plugged in round the
back of my PC and I'm:
1. To lazy to go there
2. Allergic to the dust round there
3. Afraid of the spider that lives nearby
4. Geeky enough to want to do it with my mouse, or even better, voice
recognition: "Tree, Off!"
Of course, another alternative would be a "proper" USB Christmas tree,
with drivers to control what it does. Like the mini aquarium that I have
plugged into the adjacent socket. What uses have other folks found for
these USB sockets? :-)
Connect my printer, my scanner, download pictures from digital camera, |
plug in external hard drive, plug in thumb drive, connect two
computers, connect to GPS device.
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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA
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