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data808:
I'm trying to figure what is the best way to go about powering on my arcade cabinet. I need something that will power on the laptop along with the marquee light and whatever other things I have in it. I am just beginning to brainstorm here and need some easy ideas. I was thinking of a smart power strip that when you turn on the computer, everything else that is plugged into the same power strip will also turn on. The thing about that is i would still need to find a way to power on the laptop first. I took apart some of the laptop and found the power button and its attached to some kind of harness which does not look very easy to hook up a suzo happ push button to. I also should mention that I seen this guy use a wireless power strip remote that turned on the power strip with a remote then the computer turned on automatically from that. How do you do that? How do you make the computer just turn on if the power strip is turned on?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
matsadona:
Some (most?) PC BIOS has an option to turn it on when power is applied (resume on power?). So if you have that a combination of a RF switch and a smart strip would be possible.

However I would pursue the option of hacking the laptop power switch cables, since I would have strip it anyway.
EMDB:

--- Quote from: matsadona on October 14, 2014, 04:56:48 am ---Some (most?) PC BIOS has an option to turn it on when power is applied (resume on power?). So if you have that a combination of a RF switch and a smart strip would be possible.

However I would pursue the option of hacking the laptop power switch cables, since I would have strip it anyway.

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For this you don't need the strip to be smart. If you can auto power on the laptop you can just apply power on a simple strip (using RF or a power supply button on the back or top of the cab) to turn everything on.

 




AzureKnight:

Related to this, what about powering down?  This may sound dumb and likely something I should know...but how do you get windows (assuming a windows build) to not object when it restarts after not properly shutting down when you flip that button off?
EMDB:

--- Quote from: AzureKnight on October 14, 2014, 09:13:46 am ---
Related to this, what about powering down?  This may sound dumb and likely something I should know...but how do you get windows (assuming a windows build) to not object when it restarts after not properly shutting down when you flip that button off?

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I shut down Windows from Hyperspin before hitting the switch...
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