Smart Control Stip and Raspberry Pi, not enough power draw

[Jimd0586]

So I bought a smart strip to run my arcade with retropie. Plugged my speakers and monitor into the slave inputs and the pie into the control device socket. Pie powered up and I figured that the other two devices would as well. Turns out, even after adjusting the strip, the Pi doesn't draw enough power to trigger the other devices to come on even after adjusting the strip to the max. Anything I can do to have the other devices slave to my pi on this? The ultimate plan was to install a power button and put in the script. The just press the button turning on the pi and then having that power draw trigger the other devices (monitor and speakers). Power button hasn't come in yet... it has a light in it, but even with that I believe the power draw will still be negligible.

Any advice would be great.

[nitrogen_widget]

Maybe wire a relay into the GPIO's to trigger something a little more power hungry?

[dgame]

Using the Raspberry Pi to control AC electric power:
http://tech.iprock.com/?p=10030
or
http://projects.privateeyepi.com/home/on-off-project

However some people were complaining that the above methods are not the safest so for ~$15.00 ~$21.86 shipped on Amazon (sale price), or for $19.69 shipped on eBay you can try:
http://www.amazon.com/Iot-Relay-Enclosed-High-power-Raspberry/dp/B00WV7GMA2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Iot-Relay-Enclosed-High-power-Power-Relay-for-Arduino-Raspberry-Pi-PIC-or-W-/182106045684