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I'm open to flames if this has already been posted. http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8300 As of April 17th, SF listed a new Ogg Vorbis decoder chip that is seriously listing for $10 USD. I'm excited. I think I'll buy a couple and integrate them into an IR streaming project I've been tinkering with. -Chris Harrington

...appleTV as the server, I thought it might be it's USB port. > > I bought a `plugable USB2-HUB-AG7' and experimented a bit. So far, I did not > get it to turn the power to devices completely off:-( But the unbind/bind > seems affect the devices somehow. I tried it with a little Sparkfun RedBoard > (Arduino clone) and when I [re]bind, the RX/TX LEDs flash shortly, so it > seems to reinitialize it's USB-Serial chip. Maybe that's enough? > > The same TX/RX LED flashing happens with the hub-ctrl power off->on;-) > > OK, the USB hub is now installed betwe...

I've made some progress getting this Tripplite to work: http://gathman.org/2016/07/30/Standard_Schmandard/ Basically, plug it into a USB hub that actually implements USB2.0, then power cycle the port when it hangs. It does seem to be a hardware problem with the USB controller. On 05/24/2016 09:06 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: > On May 22, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Stuart Gathman wrote: >> I

...might be >> it's USB port. >> >> I bought a `plugable USB2-HUB-AG7' and experimented a bit. So far, I >> did not get it to turn the power to devices completely off:-( But the >> unbind/bind seems affect the devices somehow. I tried it with a >> little Sparkfun RedBoard (Arduino clone) and when I [re]bind, the >> RX/TX LEDs flash shortly, so it seems to reinitialize it's USB-Serial >> chip. Maybe that's enough? >> >> The same TX/RX LED flashing happens with the hub-ctrl power off->on;-) >> >> OK, the USB hu...

    Lately I replaced my 10+-year-old server with a nano-ITX-type one that has USB but not old serial ports.  I connected my FE700VA to DB25-to-9-to-USB cables, but haven't been able to set it up. Apparently my DB9-to-USB cable (Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port) has issues needing old software (setserial?) and some new software (fconfigure) being changed.  Has anyone managed

...a good job of power filtering. I use a NUT master running on a Raspberry Pi 3 which is easy to maintain and gets current updates via its Debian roots. I have two environments, one with a much older UPS which has only serial, but the addition of a tiny card with a MAX3232 level-shifter https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11189 allows the RPi to communicate nicely, the second environment uses a USB connection from the RPi to the UPS. Both work very well with NUT, and then communicate with NUT clients on the other systems. I like that the RPi allows me to separate the NUT master function from the main...

...use a [1st gen] appleTV as the server, I thought it might be it's USB port. I bought a `plugable USB2-HUB-AG7' and experimented a bit. So far, I did not get it to turn the power to devices completely off:-( But the unbind/bind seems affect the devices somehow. I tried it with a little Sparkfun RedBoard (Arduino clone) and when I [re]bind, the RX/TX LEDs flash shortly, so it seems to reinitialize it's USB-Serial chip. Maybe that's enough? The same TX/RX LED flashing happens with the hub-ctrl power off->on;-) OK, the USB hub is now installed between the aTV & USP ;-) Let...

...quot;X10 version 2.0" and is backward compatible. **************** Manual wired versions You can also get I/O interface boards for your PC which typically plug into a serial port and provide signalling to turn on/off many outputs with varying voltage/load characteristics like this http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=20 PIC/Basic Stamp http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/products/basicstamps/basic_stamps.asp There are other intelligent devices like the PICs from Parallax called Basic Stamp modules. These are little computers designed specifically for I/O control type ta...

...t's USB port. >>> >>> I bought a `plugable USB2-HUB-AG7' and experimented a bit. So far, I >>> did not get it to turn the power to devices completely off:-( But >>> the unbind/bind seems affect the devices somehow. I tried it with a >>> little Sparkfun RedBoard (Arduino clone) and when I [re]bind, the >>> RX/TX LEDs flash shortly, so it seems to reinitialize it's >>> USB-Serial chip. Maybe that's enough? >>> >>> The same TX/RX LED flashing happens with the hub-ctrl power off->on;-) >>> &gt...

...which is easy to maintain and gets > current updates via its Debian roots. Ah . . another good reason to get a RPi going . . > I have two environments, one > with a much older UPS which has only serial, but the addition of a > tiny card with a MAX3232 level-shifter > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11189 allows the RPi to communicate > nicely, the second environment uses a USB connection from the RPi to > the UPS. Both work very well with NUT, and then communicate with NUT > clients on the other systems. I like that the RPi allows me to > separate the NUT master fun...

People, A couple of decades before I was retired and was still working for other people I had cause to install UPSs and they usually had RS232 ports to allow the setting up of shutdown scripts to UNIX / Linux servers. Now, after not having to be concerned by those issues for some time - most of my little web sites have been on Digital Ocean or other suppliers VMs for a long time - I am

People, A couple of decades before I was retired and was still working for other people I had cause to install UPSs and they usually had RS232 ports to allow the setting up of shutdown scripts to UNIX / Linux servers. Now, after not having to be concerned by those issues for some time - most of my little web sites have been on Digital Ocean or other suppliers VMs for a long time - I am

The DDRdrive X1 OpenSolaris device driver is now complete, please join us in our first-ever ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) beta test program. A select number of X1s are available for loan, preferred candidates would have a validation background and/or a true passion for torturing new hardware/driver :-) We are singularly focused on the ZIL device market, so a test environment bound by synchronous writes

I've been looking over the documentation and several installation guides for NUT, and I'm starting to get a little bit of a feel for what it is. But I'm still not clear whether what I'd *like* to accomplish is actually practical using NUT. Perhaps someone here can tell me if they've done something similar, or if I'm way off base. I would like to set up a Linux host as a