Controlling USB2 port power?

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Swifty - 19 Dec 2007 13:30 GMT

Does anyone know of an application that controls power to individual
USB2 ports? (It's part of the USB2 specification, but not widely
implemented)

Possible glitches:

1. My device doesn't use USB, just the power, so isn't a known device
2. My USB2 hardware may not support the power specification.

Why? So I can turn off my USB LED Christmas tree before going to bed. :-)

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Leonard Grey - 19 Dec 2007 16:23 GMT

How about unplugging the USB cable?

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> Does anyone know of an application that controls power to individual
> USB2 ports? (It's part of the USB2 specification, but not widely
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> Why? So I can turn off my USB LED Christmas tree before going to bed. :-)

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Swifty - 20 Dec 2007 17:36 GMT

> How about unplugging the USB cable?

It will wear out the plug and socket. Anyway, it's plugged in round the
back of my PC and I'm:

1. To lazy to go there
2. Allergic to the dust round there
3. Afraid of the spider that lives nearby
4. Geeky enough to want to do it with my mouse, or even better, voice
recognition: "Tree, Off!"

Of course, another alternative would be a "proper" USB Christmas tree,
with drivers to control what it does. Like the mini aquarium that I have
plugged into the adjacent socket. What uses have other folks found for
these USB sockets? :-)

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Gerald Ross - 20 Dec 2007 23:26 GMT

>> How about unplugging the USB cable?
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> plugged into the adjacent socket. What uses have other folks found for
> these USB sockets? :-)

Connect my printer, my scanner, download pictures from digital camera,
plug in external hard drive, plug in thumb drive, connect two
computers, connect to GPS device.

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Ace - 28 Jan 2008 15:03 GMT

Swifty <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in news:um7nP7yQIHA.1208
@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> What uses have other folks found for
> these USB sockets? :-)

I have an USB vacuum cleaner ;)

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