Remote controlling Smart Power 3

[ararauna]

Hi,
I am using the Smart Power 3 to collect some data about some boards I have in the office.
However, sometimes I work from home and would like to stop/restart the power delivery to the boards I'm testing remotely.

At first, I thought of using one of those plugs that can be turned on and off remotely, but the Smart Power 3 requires the user to push a physical button to turn on the power delivery to the board without remembering its state before shutting off.
Is there any way to toggle the delivery on/off remotely or via serial communication?

Thanks

[mctom]

Hi,

It might actually be easier to develop a remote control code in scope of Smart Power 3 firmware.
https://github.com/hardkernel/smartpower3

I was thinking about implementing a subset of SCPI commands in SP3, that would solve a lot of problems. It's a common language understood by almost all lab instruments that have any communication port.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ ... nstruments

If it understood SCPI, all you'd need to do is to write:

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CHAN1:VOLT 5
CHAN1:OUTP ON

[ararauna]

That might be a nice idea, thanks

[mctom]

Someone has already pointed out it's feasible to incorporate an existing SCPI parser for this:
https://github.com/Vrekrer/Vrekrer_scpi_parser
https://github.com/LachlanGunn/oic/tree ... SCPIParser

I'd love to help you with this, but I'm departing on my vacations this weekend.