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I need to stack charge a USB device I have. That means plugging it in to a USB port or wall charger for no more than 2 minutes then taking in out and repeating this over and over again.
I may need to this MANY - MANY times.
Has anyone any ideas to automate this?
Is there any freeware, shareware or script I could use that would turn on / off my USB port for say 2 minutes on 30 seconds off for a certain number of times?
I could do this on Windows XP (my preference) or Window 7 or a friend’s Raspberry Pie.
Many thanks in advance.
Happy Christmas
I may need to this MANY - MANY times.
Has anyone any ideas to automate this?
Is there any freeware, shareware or script I could use that would turn on / off my USB port for say 2 minutes on 30 seconds off for a certain number of times?
I could do this on Windows XP (my preference) or Window 7 or a friend’s Raspberry Pie.
Many thanks in advance.
Happy Christmas
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If you use a wall charger, then you could probably use somthing like this wall outlet timer:
http://www.grainger.com/pr
Looks like it has a minimum ontime of 1 minute.
Has a max of 24 on/off cycles you can program (per week). Is that enough?
http://www.grainger.com/pr
Looks like it has a minimum ontime of 1 minute.
Has a max of 24 on/off cycles you can program (per week). Is that enough?
I have been looking at wall outlet timers as well. Seems to be an option.
A software solution is my preference as I could just set it to run at intravels all night.
But will look in to gettting a phyicial one after Christmas if there is no other option. The ones we have around the hourse are all old fashioned 15 min intravels.
Many thanks.
A software solution is my preference as I could just set it to run at intravels all night.
But will look in to gettting a phyicial one after Christmas if there is no other option. The ones we have around the hourse are all old fashioned 15 min intravels.
Many thanks.
> A software solution is my preference as I could just set it to run at intravels all night.
In case you missed it, see my (free!) software solution right above your last post. Regards, Joe
In case you missed it, see my (free!) software solution right above your last post. Regards, Joe
Hi Joe,
I ended up buying a digital timer. Setting for 20 programs and then resetting the time so the program would run again and over and over again. No a meg out of the tablet.
I feel the NirSoft's (free!) utility was the answer but abit outside my coding ability.
Many thanks.
I ended up buying a digital timer. Setting for 20 programs and then resetting the time so the program would run again and over and over again. No a meg out of the tablet.
I feel the NirSoft's (free!) utility was the answer but abit outside my coding ability.
Many thanks.
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One of them is USBDeview:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
You have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find the download links...and note that there are separate ones for 32-bit and 64-bit. It works in XP and W7 (and 2K, Vista, W8, and some others).
It is a stand-alone/no-install executable...simply run the EXE file that is in the downloaded ZIP file. It has a command line interface with "enable" and "disable" options. So use whatever your favorite scripting language is (or just a simple batch file) and call <USBDeview.exe> with the "enable" option, then pause/sleep/wait for 120 seconds, then call <USBDeview.exe> with the "disable" option, then pause/sleep/wait for 30 seconds, then loop back...run the loop as many times as you want. Regards, Joe