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
