shutdown windows with a stamp?

Archiver · 2001-06-06 20:46

Does anyone know how I can shutdown windows with a Basic Stamp 2? I'd like
to send something to the serial port and have win issue a shutdown, but I'm
not a vb programmer. Does anyone know where I can find a prog. to do this?

Perhaps I could use APC Powerchute and trick it somehow into shutting
down???

Any info is sincerely appreciated...

Thanks,
Chris

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Archiver · 2001-06-06 21:35

I think you have the easiest solution here. APC, Belkin, Tripplite all
have software that will do this. You will need to check wiring diagrams,
but the simple solution will be to use the software in the "stupid" mode,
this is for the older/cheaper UPS, that don't have microcontrollers. They
just closed the DTR, or CTS, or similar control lines.

joshua

--On Wednesday, June 6, 2001 3:46 PM -0400 Christopher Bergeron
<christopher_bergeron@y...> wrote:

> Perhaps I could use APC Powerchute and trick it somehow into shutting
> down???

Archiver · 2001-06-07 05:01

[font=arial,helvetica]In a message dated 6/6/2001 4:37:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
anhalt+stamp@andrew.cmu.edu writes:

I think you have the easiest solution here. ·APC, Belkin, Tripplite all
have software that will do this. ·You will need to check wiring diagrams,
but the simple solution will be to use the software in the "stupid" mode,
this is for the older/cheaper UPS, that don't have microcontrollers. ·They
just closed the DTR, or CTS, or similar control lines.

joshua

--On Wednesday, June 6, 2001 3:46 PM -0400 Christopher Bergeron
<christopher_bergeron@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I could use APC Powerchute and trick it somehow into shutting
> down???

A good way to do this would be to make your own VB application, in which the
Stamp sends the software a variable to shutdown, then have your VB app call
the shutdown .dll....
ex, in a module under declarations put these two lines:
Public Const EWX_SHUTDOWN = 1

Declare Function exitwindowsex Lib "user32" Alias "ExitWindowsEx" (ByVal
uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long

then to execute the command in your code, it would look like this:
exitwindowsex EWX_SHUTDOWN, 0
hope this helps
Lou[/font]

Archiver · 2001-06-07 09:48

Maybe Shutdown Now! can be of help: http://www.dworld.de/winsoft.htm

Hans Luyten
Webmaster http://www.weethet.nl

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Does anyone know how I can shutdown windows with a Basic Stamp 2? I'd like
to send something to the serial port and have win issue a shutdown, but I'm
not a vb programmer. Does anyone know where I can find a prog. to do this?

Perhaps I could use APC Powerchute and trick it somehow into shutting
down???

Any info is sincerely appreciated...

Thanks,
Chris

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Archiver · 2001-06-08 00:49

[font=arial,helvetica]If you don't care about windows being shut down "properly" (I don't) guess
you could use a relay or two to do that, but if you don't want to mess with
power cables take advise of someone who is better at VB programming than me.
I suppose I am not of much help but I just felt like writing something.

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shutdown windows with a stamp?

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