Eric Turns out there's no easy (if any) way of cutting the power to a USB port through software alone. A real let down, was hoping to pull some neat tricks with my USB lit lamp.
Mark Dain Maybe you can get a lamp that can change color and control it with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi?
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Eric That's what I was thinking, I've seen that it's doable on the Raspberry Pi using a nasty hack (can't find the link right now, I'll shout it to you if you want). On Windows it doesn't look doable however. Even if you disable the USB port completely juice still runs through it - smart devices know not to charge but dumb lamps will continue regardless.
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Mark Dain That's a shame that disabling the port only cuts data. What's the project for anyway?
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