is there a hardware watchdog on your devices? if so it should reboot if the
unit fails for
some reason, would that be sufficient for your needs?


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Roberto Riggio <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Il 14/10/2010 14:29, Mark Ter Morshuizen ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Roberto,
>>
> Hi Mark
>
>
>  Prety much anything that supports GPIO or configurable LED's should be
>> able to
>> do what you want with a little bit of hardware hacking. My preferred
>> method
>> would be to de-solder an LED and replace it with an optocoupler. Interface
>> the
>> optocoupler to your control circuit.
>>
> Well, honestly I have no experience at all on hardware hacking. Are you
> aware of some web resource that provided some kind of schematics?
>
>  To find out what hardware has accessible LED's get a listing of the kernel
>> modules with "led" in their names off the download pages for the various
>> architectures.
>>
> I assume that you suggest to use the led on/off function to power up/down
> the device, right? This is partially useful, however this assumes that the
> device didn't crashed. The problem is that I have some device spread around
> several floors and it is annoying to reboot them one by one when this is
> required. That's why I was looking for some POE device with a remote switch
> and then I've thought that it could be useful to have some kind of power
> consumption reading.
>
> R,
>
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