On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:59:44 -0700 "Michael R. Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> G. Wade and Perl Folks, > I have a personal pet project called Power::Outlet where I'm trying > to enable network attached power outlets devices under a single the > umbrella. It's a fairly open architecture and could support any > on/off controller. If anyone has network attached power outlets and > would not mind being my tester please send me the specs and I'd like > to add it to the Power::Outlet project. Sounds interesting. Interested in giving presentation about it at some point. (I gotta try.) > It currently supports Belkin WeMo, Dataprobe iBoot, and Dataprobe > iBootBar. I have specs for Aviosys IP POWER 9258 but I don't have > any test hardware. > > For example, this is all you need to add to cron to turn on and off a > network attached lamp. > > 0 18 * * * power-outlet iBoot ON host mylamp > 0 22 * * * power-outlet iBoot OFF host mylamp > > or something fancier if you have a daytime/nighttime script > > 0-59/10 * * * * is_nighttime && power-outlet iBoot ON host mylamp > 5-59/10 * * * * is_daytime && power-outlet iBoot OFF host mylamp That interface looks pretty nice. > In Perl a one liner > > perl -MPower::Outlet -e 'print Power::Outlet->new(type=>"iBoot", > host=>shift)->on, "\n"' mylamp > > My goal is to get drivers together as network attached everything > will be here shortly. > > Lesson learned: ensure the next stereo you buy saves it settings when > you pull the plug. Thanks, <grin/>Definitely an important lesson. > Mike > > mrdvt92 G. Wade -- The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. -- Larry Wall _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
