Controlling USB2 port power?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Swifty
  • Start date Start date
S

Swifty

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. :-)
 
Leonard said:
How about unplugging the USB cable?
Click to expand...

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? :-)
 
Swifty said:
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? :-)
Click to expand...
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.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

To learn more about paranoids, follow
them around!
 
Re: USB Port Power

there are utilities for USB removal (turning port power off)

what you need is to 'Remove' the drive, not 'Eject' it

There are two modes of USB drive removal

'Ejecting does not turn off power

'Removing' does

downside: you have to physically unplug and plug back in to power up after 'Removing'
but microsofts devcon.exe utility allows turning on and off usb ports but you have to know what you are doing with the command line parameters... or you can turn off devices you really dont want turned off.

This website has usb utilities and info on usb removal
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html
look for 'RemoveDrive.exe'

Micro$ofts Devcon Utility

The DevCon command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

Using DEVCON to manage devices and drivers
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/devcon.html
 
Back
Top