<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:43 AM, migmog <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@migmog.com">andrew@migmog.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I started implementing a RS232 power relay to turn on a power strip<br>
under software control, but never finished it. Got as far as a proof<br>
of concept, and confirmed that it worked from my USB->Serial adapter.<br>
<br>
Take a look at these pages:<br>
<a href="http://www.ktverkko.fi/%7Emsmakela/electronics/relay/index.en.html" target="_blank">http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/electronics/relay/index.en.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.beskeen.com/projects/dslr_serial/dslr_serial.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.beskeen.com/projects/dslr_serial/dslr_serial.shtml</a><br>
<br>
mig<br>
<div></div></blockquote><div><br>I've thought about building one using a solid state relay to turn the power off and on and it should be possible to trigger it either via the parallel port or via a small microcontroller. Should be pretty straight forward do. <br>
<br>Beyond that, I think you might be able to find some hardware out there already being sold for doing the same thing. If you go back a few years, a lot of servers didn't come with remote access cards so there were businesses out there trying to solve the problem of power cycling a server remotely.<br>
<br>--Darrin<br></div></div><br>