Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
On Sunday, December 23, 2012 06:34:41 PM Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Duncan Booth duncan.booth@invalid.invalid wrote: In this year's Christmas Raffle at work I won a 'party-in-a-box' including USB fairy lights. They sit boringly on all the time, so does anyone know if I can toggle the power easily from a script? My work PC is running Win7. Not easily, no. It's not really a USB device -- I'm betting it doesn't even enumerate. It's just sucking power from the USB wires. There's nothing to control. Hmm. Can you control whether a particular port is on or off? (I have no idea what's possible with the underlying API, much less whether it's exposed.) It should in theory be possible - disable the appropriate USB port and the device loses power. ChrisA If you have the time; Using communication software, you can control a modem to call, hang up, and call again every few seconds. Since you can make a phone do the same thing, there is most likely a way to get those lights to respond the same way, at least by next Christmas. jd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Duncan Booth duncan.booth@invalid.invalid wrote: In this year's Christmas Raffle at work I won a 'party-in-a-box' including USB fairy lights. They sit boringly on all the time, so does anyone know if I can toggle the power easily from a script? My work PC is running Win7. Not easily, no. It's not really a USB device -- I'm betting it doesn't even enumerate. It's just sucking power from the USB wires. There's nothing to control. Yes, I understand that, I was wondering whether the power could be toggled. Hmm. Can you control whether a particular port is on or off? (I have no idea what's possible with the underlying API, much less whether it's exposed.) It should in theory be possible - disable the appropriate USB port and the device loses power. 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. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
Duncan Booth duncan.booth@invalid.invalid wrote: In this year's Christmas Raffle at work I won a 'party-in-a-box' including USB fairy lights. They sit boringly on all the time, so does anyone know if I can toggle the power easily from a script? My work PC is running Win7. Not easily, no. It's not really a USB device -- I'm betting it doesn't even enumerate. It's just sucking power from the USB wires. There's nothing to control. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python USB control on Windows 7?
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Duncan Booth duncan.booth@invalid.invalid wrote: In this year's Christmas Raffle at work I won a 'party-in-a-box' including USB fairy lights. They sit boringly on all the time, so does anyone know if I can toggle the power easily from a script? My work PC is running Win7. Not easily, no. It's not really a USB device -- I'm betting it doesn't even enumerate. It's just sucking power from the USB wires. There's nothing to control. Hmm. Can you control whether a particular port is on or off? (I have no idea what's possible with the underlying API, much less whether it's exposed.) It should in theory be possible - disable the appropriate USB port and the device loses power. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python USB control on Windows 7?
In this year's Christmas Raffle at work I won a 'party-in-a-box' including USB fairy lights. They sit boringly on all the time, so does anyone know if I can toggle the power easily from a script? My work PC is running Win7. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
