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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gibman" data-source="post: 998705" data-attributes="member: 25430">regarding the automatic power switch. I used to have one of these USB enabled ones - although some other el cheapo brand.For this to work reliably you will need the USB port to power down when turned off / suspended. Some motherboards always output 5v to the USB port, which renders the power switch unusable.Some motherboards offer a BIOS setting / physical jumper that needs to be activated in order to enable/disable "always power on USB" feature. What I found to be more bulletproof is to buy an intelligent master-slave power switch that monitors the current power drain on the master.If the power consumption gets below some defined threshold, like 5 watts, then the power switch considers the main device as turned off.It then turns of the slave outlets too. Some power switches even has a way of defining the watt threshold which can come in handy with those ATOM based htpc rigs as they consume almost nothing. So my advice: get a power switch without USB, but instead one with a user definable threshold for minimum watt.I think its around 10 eur or something. Another thing is, some TV's do not like to get power switched off (live it happens when connected as a slave on the power outlet).example: in my livingroom I have a sony LCD TV, it doesn't mind at all that power is being turned on/off during htpc off/suspend. bedroom panasonic plasma doesnt like being turned off.when being turned on again, I have the HDMI handshake stuff being done => half screen issue etc. (no, havent tried new mp version)but if I run the plasma on its own power socket and just use the remote to turn on/off the TV, then no problems. another thing is; I wouldn't want a plasma TV to automatically power itself on when htpc decides to turn on.can u imagine being at work when your TV turns on .. nice burn in when u get home <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />and htpc just resumed as it wanted to do some win updates <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I do like to put the AVR and subwoofer on as a slave device, same for LCD tv's ofc. if your rig is acting as a tvserver as well, then matters are further complicated as it has a lot more automatic wake up cycles.how much do u want to turn on automatically in these situations ?the power switch obviously cant differ between what caused the wakeup <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> but for multiseats it rocks. /gibman</blockquote>

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