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
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