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Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
Date 2012-12-23 16:48 -0500
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:14:08 -0700, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 12/23/2012 11:11 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
> > So far as I can tell Windows doesn't let you turn the ports on and off. I 
> > found some suggestion that by connecting it to a powered hub it may be 
> > possible to toggle the hub power on and off but that many hubs don't bother 
> > implementing the functionality.
> > 
> > Thanks anyway.
> 
> Or you might have more fun if you cut off the USB plug, and drive the
> thing directly using an Arduino board.  You can use the USB serial port
> on it to prgrammatically turn the thing on and off from your computer,
> or a billion other possible things.

	Hook up a USB > X-10 controller, plug an X-10 switchable outlet
module somewhere, plug-in a USB charger unit, and plug the lights into
the USB charger... Then use the computer to command the outlet module
on/off...
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Python USB control on Windows 7? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-12-21 08:36 +0000
  Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-12-22 23:28 -0800
    Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 18:34 +1100
      Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-12-23 18:11 +0000
        Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-12-23 14:14 -0700
        Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-12-23 16:48 -0500
    Re: Python USB control on Windows 7? inq1ltd <inq1ltd@inqvista.com> - 2012-12-23 10:33 -0500

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