PowerStrip

[Darren Schreckengost]

Might be too involved
www.smarthome.com
www.x10.com

Some home automation places have small macro-ready programs
You could reboot it every night without thinking. Course there is always
manual overrides.

ALSO - wiring bonus 
doesn't require wiring, it "talks" via the AC power in your house. 
CHEERS!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Born [mailto:dan at danborn.net]
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 3:12 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: PowerStrip


On Jan 03 14:24, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Brett Hamann wrote:
>
> > This is a long shot, but I thought I would try you guys.
> >
> > I'm looking for a PowerStrip or Plug that has a RS232 connection on it.
> > I would like to be able to send an ASCII command to the powerstrip and
> > turn it off, then send a second command and turn it back on. I'm trying
> > to power cycle a machine that locked up with sendmail.
> >
> > Is there such a thing?
>
> We use APC's devices:
>
> http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=70
>
> They don't appear to have serial connections though, but if you can work
> with http/snmp/telnet, it might do the trick.

I have an older APC "BackUPS" (small, single-PC UPS) that uses RS232.  I
use apcupsd to control it.  Maybe that could be configured to send a
power cycle command.

-- 
Dan Born <dan at danborn.net>