I received a prototype disk array for my lab this week. The array sucks so much power I had to get a separate circuit put in. And it looked like the thing would outjuice the APC MasterSwitch 7900 power relays I use to control my equipment. It also seemed like a waste to use an 8-port relay to control a single device. So it was time to revive my old Blackbox Pow-R-Switch relay which has 3 switched 10A @ 120V ports.
Way back during my tenure at Linuxcare I wrote a program to control the PSS' highly arcane interface. A quick look at the program revealed it to be very broken. And instead of fixing it, I wrote a script to control the relay using powerman. This way the PRS integrates seamlessly in my existing lab infrastructure. The powerman script is available here: prs.dev.
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